Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the recent peace agreement between Israel and Hamas.

However, Obama avoided talking about an essential leader who put the entire agreement together and that person is none other than President Trump.

In a post on X, Obama shared that everyone should be “encouraged” and “relieved” that the war in Gaza is coming to an end.

He added, the the United States and other nations around the globe should now focus on rebuilding Gaza.

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After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered.

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More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza – and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.

The even left leaning Washington post gave Trump his credit.

A recent op-ed publish by The Washington Post advocates for President trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

You can read the op-ed by the Washington Post below:

Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.

Four of his predecessors have won the prize. Barack Obama won seven months into his presidency essentially for not being George W. Bush — and even he said he didn’t deserve it. Woodrow Wilson won for creating the League of Nations, which proved to be a feckless disaster that the United States never even joined. Theodore Roosevelt won for ending a single conflict, the Russo-Japanese War, which began with Japan’s 1904 attack on the Russian fleet in Manchuria (Japan later launched a full invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and then a surprise attack on the U.S. in 1941). Jimmy Carter won in 2002, more than two decades after leaving the White House, for a lifetime of work in peacemaking, beginning with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.

Contrast this with Trump’s record. In his first term, Trump brokered not one, not two, not three, but four Arab-Israeli peace accords — the first such agreements in more than a quarter-century. He did it by rejecting the failed conventional wisdom of the foreign policy establishment, which said that there could be no separate peace without the Palestinians and that moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and confronting Iran’s aggression would inflame the region and put peace out of reach. Those moves did the opposite. The Abraham Accords alone were an achievement worthy of a Nobel Prize.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has brought leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda together in the Oval Office to sign a peace agreement in their decades-long conflict that has left millions dead. He helped pressure India and Pakistan to end four days of fighting in May (Pakistan gives Trump credit, India does not). He helped negotiate an end to fighting between Thailand and Cambodia after Thailand launched airstrikes against Cambodia in July. He brought the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the White House to sign a peace framework in their war over Nagorno-Karabakh. In what may be his greatest achievement for the cause of peace, he launched Operation Midnight Hammer obliterating Iran’s nuclear program, and then brought an end to the Iran-Israel war after just 12 days of fighting.

Furthermore, Trump maintains that he headed off a war between Serbia and Kosovo (the president of Kosovo backed Trump’s claim, saying that Serbia was planning to attack Kosovo in May before Trump intervened). And Trump also asserts that he prevented a military conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia in their ongoing dispute over a dam on the Nile.

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But even if we set those two aside, that is still one of the greatest peacemaking records of any administration in U.S. history.

And that was before the deal Trump just brokered between Israel and Hamas to release all the remaining hostages held by the terror group. To create the conditions for an agreement, Trump skillfully maneuvered Hamas into a corner, laying out a comprehensive 20-point plan not just to end the fighting but also to rebuild Gaza and provide those who live there with a path to prosperity. He got Israel and virtually the entire Arab world to sign off on his plan. That left Hamas with no choice but to agree or face sole responsibility for the continuation of Gaza’s suffering.

Whether peace will last remains to be seen. Under Trump’s plan, Hamas must effectively surrender, hand over its weapons and agree not to have any role in the governance of Gaza. It is hard to imagine Hamas permanently giving up its goal of destroying Israel. But thanks to Trump, the families of the living hostages will be reunited with their loved ones, while the families of the dead will receive their remains and get much-needed closure. And if the fighting resumes, responsibility will lay entirely with Hamas.

And Trump is not done. He has not given up on his goal of ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, though bringing Putin to the peace table will require coercion in the form of increased military and economic pressure, not just persuasion. And if he succeeds in ending the Israel-Hamas war, then more Abraham Accords are almost certain to follow with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states.
But this much is certain: From the Middle East to Africa, Asia, the Caucuses and Europe, no president has done more for the cause of peace than Donald Trump. If that does not earn him a Nobel Prize, the prize has no meaning.

 

 

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