‘Netanyahu knows Trump’s attention span is very short’
Analyst Muhammad Shehada says Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to “collapse the agreement” in the hope that President Trump will lose patience with the peace process and give Israel a green light to resume the war.
“Israel, and Netanyahu in particular, has inserted a number of loopholes in the ceasefire agreement that would ensure his ability to collapse it or to violate it,” Shehada told Al Jazeera.
He noted Israel’s prime minister has used challenges in locating the bodies of Israeli captives under mounds of rubble to allege Hamas is not upholding its pledge to return the dead.
“Netanyahu knows that Trump’s attention span is very short, and his hope is that Trump will be distracted by the next big topic and move on from Gaza and give him a free hand again. It’s just a manoeuvre to buy time.”
Trump will keep pushing the peace plan until he gets his Abraham accords signed and access to the IMEC project and other deals with the gulf states.
https://www.agbi.com/trade/2025/08/imec-trade-corridor-gets-trump-administration-buy-in/
The genocide got in the way
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3325366/end-imec-us-backed-answer-chinas-belt-and-road-falters-amid-mideast-strife
Trump has made plenty other deals as well that rely on 'peace' in the ME:
https://rohanvenkat.substack.com/p/where-was-imec-amid-trumps-big-gulf
(with claims of $2 trillion in agreements with Gulf nations, even if those numbers may not stand up to scrutiny), diplomatically (including the remarkable decision to lift sanctions on Syria, and continue negotiations with Iran) and personally (with the Trump family involved in everything from towers and golf courses to crypto ventures in the region).
But he allows Israel to break the ceasefire anyway, only stops Netanyahu from flat out resuming the genocide.
Ceasefire hasn’t stopped Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza: UN expert
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel continues to kill, starve, maim, and displace the people of Gaza despite the three-week-old truce.
“The ceasefire declared on October 11 did not stop the assault on Gaza,” Albanese told Al Jazeera from Cape Town in South Africa. Israel has committed at least 125 violations of the truce, killed nearly 100, and wounded about 350 Palestinians since the US-brokered ceasefire took effect, she noted.
“Any person with an inch of common sense has been saying … is this possible that in the middle of a genocide we cheer for this proposal that does not take into account any human rights, international law?” Albanese said of Trump’s Gaza “peace plan”.
