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Trump Declares Peace in the Middle East
- A Radical Dispatch
1) Peace in the Middle East
The grand regional settlement for peace is here. Peace in the Middle East has finally been made possible as the entire region breathes a sigh of relief.
Here is the Gaza peace signing ceremony.
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President Trump: “This took 3000 years. To get to this point. Can you believe it? And it’s gonna hold up to. It’s going to hold up.”
Admittedly that video was replete with Star Wars finale-style theme music.
This grand peace summit for Gaza was held next door in Egypt’s Sharm al-Shaikh. Attendees were as follows.
Al-Jazeera reports 13th October 2025:
In a gesture suggesting this peace was only made possible by Trump bringing the Arab and Muslim-majority regional countries together, Netanyahu and Hamas were not in attendance. Crucially, the list of Gaza peace summit attendees includes a total of 13 Arab and Muslim-majority countries, including the Muslim world’s only nuclear power Pakistan - a sunni Muslim majority country that does not even officially recognise Israel, NATO-member and sunni Muslim-majority military power Turkey - which has severed diplomatic ties with Israel, the Muslim world’s most populous and sunni Muslim-majority country Indonesia, and the Arab and Sunni Muslim-majority world financial power houses of the UAE and Qatar.
All these countries have declared that the war is over, accepted the Gaza peace plan and thanked President Trump - in some cases effusively - for securing this peace.
The White House published the Gaza Declaration, signed by the US and three key regional Muslim-majority countries.
The White House reports 13th October 2025:
“We commit ourselves to a future of enduring peace.
Donald J. Trump President of the United States of America
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Emir of the State of Qatar
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Türkiye.”
The peace will now expand. With the Gaza deal now in place, the stage is set for Israel to begin signing multiple regional peace deals with her Arab and Muslim-majority neighbours. This may happen faster than people expect.
Trump has even stated his desire for Iran to join the peace.
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Journalist: “(is there a) possible Iran peace deal. You said we are ready when you are. Is that the ultimate goal with today’s signing to get..?”
Trump: “No. Not Iran, but I think Iran will come along. They’ve been battered and bruised and, you know, they need some help. They’ve big sanctions, as you know, tremendous sanctions. I’d love to take the sanctions off when they’re ready to talk. But they can’t really survive with those sanctions. Those sanctions are very tough. But at some point, they’re going to say, we want the sanctions off. We’re going to end up with peace. I think Iran is going to be fine. I know so many Iranian people. They’re great people. They’re smart. Great, great people. Engineers, lawyers. I mean, they’re academics. But they took a big hit. And frankly, if we didn’t hit them with the nuclear, I don’t think you would have been able to have this incredible, this deal, this once-in-a-lifetime deal. Nobody’s ever said anything like what’s happening today. And countries have all come together, all different countries. Some liked each other, some didn’t, most didn’t. And they’ve all come together. Every country has come together. And by the way, Iran did put out a statement, you know, that they support this deal very wholeheartedly. So that was... in itself something. But no, I think they want to. That’s all I do in my life. I make deals. And they want to make a deal.”
And in a robustly denied story, Israeli press were reporting that the president of the most populous Muslim-majority country Indonesia was even on his way to visit Israel for the first time.
The Times of Israel reports 15th October 2025:
“Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto will arrive tomorrow in Israel, marking the first visit of a head of state from Jakarta to the country, according to a source familiar with the details. Subianto referred to Israel in surprisingly warm terms during his UN speech in September, ending his address with the word ‘Shalom.’ Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.”
As reported in last week’s Radical Dispatch, Indonesian President Prabowo had demanded at his UNGA speech that Muslim-majority countries also guarantee Israel’s safety and security.
After making such unexpectedly warm overtures, the fact that such a rumour of Prabowo’s visit to Israel even took off is an indication of the way in which the atmosphere has quickly turned from one of despair to one of hope.
2) Thanks to Trump The War is Over
The war is over. This is not only true for Gaza, but for the entire Middle East.
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President Trump: “This is not only the end of a war. This is the end of the age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God. It’s the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”
Trump is correct.
Matters will take time to settle, but the risky period of active hot war escalation across the region is finished. This was made possible by Trump’s paradigm shift: the regional approach.
We were asked by GB News America to provide our reaction to these events. Our interview with Beverly Turner is provided below.
GB News reports 14th October 2025:
Host Beverly Turner for GB News America: “Let’s go now to speak to a man that I have been desperate to talk to all day actually and been desperate to talk to him since news of this peace resolution was sorted, which is the legendary broadcaster Maajid Nawaz. Because Maajid, good evening, you were in the studio with me here in DC. You were going to the White House, and 24 hours later we had a peace deal. Can you take some credit for this my friend?”
Maajid Nawaz: “I can’t be that bold on air to be taking any credit for anything, Bev, but it’s fantastic. I agree with your guests. It is a historic, historic day. Of course, here in London, where I’m speaking to you from, some of those who were the ‘Ceasefire Now’ crowd, who were demanding an immediate stop to the war and a ceasefire, now that that’s been achieved are somewhat either silent or negative about these developments. It’s all very strange. They wanted to stop the war. The war has now stopped. Hamas has declared an end to the war, and thanked President Trump for ending it. And these guys here on these protests are saying that this is not an end to the war. It’s simply a ‘pause’ and we must fight on, until we annihilate and end the state of Israel, which isn’t what peace is about. And I’m not sure, last time I checked, peace didn’t mean war, and war didn’t mean peace.”
Host Beverly Turner for GB News America: “Maajid, since the 60s, we’ve had some of the best lawyers, military experts, global leaders in the world trying to sort this out. How did Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, basically men who build golf courses and apartment blocks, manage to sort this out? How?”
Maajid Nawaz: “Well, for those of us who have been following the situation, first of all, let me say that the Abraham Accords that President Trump achieved in his first term, five years ago from September the 15th, this has been a long time in the planning. What Trump did, and is part of the genius of not necessarily just the man Trump, but the policy of those who backed him in his first term and through into this term as well, is that they completely changed the dynamic of what this problem, how it was perceived in the Middle East. The flaw that a lot of Middle East policy wonks, but mainly especially the politicians, the flaw with which they approached this situation was that this was a bilateral conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. And in some instances, if you’re Keir Starmer, suddenly they made it a unilateral issue by simply declaring recognition for a Palestinian state. The truth is, as Trump’s peace plan now demonstrates that this was all along, Bev, a regional problem. Trump’s innovative approach was to address it as a regional problem, to speak directly to the powers in the region that were backing Hamas, for example, such as Iran, and other regional players. Speaking directly to the Saudis, to the Turks, to the Egyptians, to the Pakistanis even, a nuclear power, the Muslim world’s only nuclear power, to say, listen, all of you are involved. We all need to get together to solve this regionally. And that’s the culmination of what we just saw in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. And that was that the Gaza peace declaration has been signed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt. Turkey is a NATO member, a military power. They’re guaranteeing security peace and prosperity now in the Middle East. We’ve also got the Indonesian president - of the leader of the most populous Muslim nation - now on his way to visit Israel. It’s truly unprecedented and the reason this is all being made possible is because we changed the paradigm and approached it regionally.”
Host Beverly Turner for GB News America: “And I made light of the fact that they’re property developers, but I do wonder whether there is something important in that, because Trump has effectively come at this by saying, you don’t negotiate peace, you build peace in a metaphorical sense. But he’s also offered the temptation of literally building the area into a successful hub in the Middle East. How appealing to the invested parties in that region was that attitude, Maajid? Because I’d never heard anybody look at that region and say, you can all be rich, not just the oil barons. You can all have a slice of this.”
Maajid Nawaz: “Well, this was, if you go back to, he was mocked for it at the time there, the whole ‘Riviera notion’. But actually, this is what he was doing. Because now in Gaza, it’s not actually Palantir or the Israelis that are in for rebuilding Gaza. Actually, the truth is, the Saudis have pledged the money, and you’re going to again have those Emirati and Gulf financiers, backing the regeneration of Gaza with transitionally a UN peacekeeping force, but essentially Muslim peacekeepers on the ground. So whether that results in a two-state solution or any other regional solution to the issue, the redevelopment of Gaza will be funded by Gulf Arabs. And so if you can, and this is part of Jared Kushner’s approach to this question, if you can motivate them by personal interest and profit, as well as the morality of, you know, we need peace, we need a better world, then you see what we ended up with, which was the regional players getting involved and working with Trump on it, instead of antagonising his peace approaches.”
Host Beverly Turner for GB News America: “Yeah, okay. Well, Maajid, you may not take any credit for it, being the founder of the Accordists, for flying in, and suddenly have a peace deal. But there’s a little part of me that thinks that you have something to do with this, Maajid Nawaz. Whatever you do, anyway, keep doing what you’re doing because it is amazing. You are the voice of reason. You are the oracle. You want to know what’s around the corner? Follow Maajid Nawaz on his socials and he’ll tell you everything. Thank you so much for staying up late to join me this evening. So good to see you.”
As we raised above, those who had previously been demanding ‘ceasefire now!’ and ‘stop the war’ should have been jubilant at this peace deal. Instead, many of them dismissed it as a ‘colonial project’.
Before we move to the specifics of why they are wrong, it is important to clarify here that we speak of the protest leadership and not of the sincere everyday protestor who just wanted an end to the war.
With that said, the below caricature is a fair summary of how the conversation with the protestor leadership has degenerated since Trump’s peace was announced.
And yes skirmishes will still occur, this is usual after cessation of hostilities, but the war is over.
A major flaw in the cynical position taken by the Western protest leadership is that they are placing their own sense of moral outrage on behalf of the region, above the needs of the region itself, as expressed by the regional players themselves.
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Maajid Nawaz on WARRIOR CREED: “If Corbyn, the non-Arab, non-Muslim, Western, British politician is OK for you to support and his critique of this peace deal is OK for you to blindly accept, then we will respond by saying, well, OK, there’s your we will take your one politician. We raise you politicians from the entire region who back this peace deal. Yes, they’re also politicians, so is Corbyn. But they are Muslim, they are Arab, and they’re from the region. That’s the difference. And they backed this deal and they thanked Trump. And in fact, you can see there from the Muslim world’s only nuclear power, nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. So if you’re going to approach this from the angle of what’s better for the region and what the people of the region want. We put it to you: it’s more of an indication what the region wants to show you what the region is saying than it is to pick some left wing random magic grandpa from London and say he gets to decide what the region wants.”
The reader may yet hear those in the West - who are vicariously outraged on behalf of Middle-Eastern Arabs and Muslims - pronounce loudly that the war is not over until all Israeli occupation and ‘the apartheid system’ is over.
Yet, here is Hamas categorically declaring the opposite, by stating that the war is “completely ended”.
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وقد تسلمنا ضمانات من الإخوة الوسطاء ومن الإدارة الأمريكية مؤكدين جميعا أن الحرب
انتهت بشكل تام وسنواصل العمل مع القوى الوطنية والإسلامية
استكمالا باقي الخطوات والعمل على تحقيق مصالح شعبنا الفلسطيني وتقرير مصيره بنفسه
وإنجاز حقوقه إلى حين إقامة دولته المستقلة وعاصمتها القدس
Hamas spokesman: “We have received assurances from our mediating brothers and the US administration, all affirming that the war has ended once and for all, and we will continue working with the national and Islamic forces to complete the remaining steps and work to achieve the interests of our Palestinian people, ensure their self-determination, and realise their rights until the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
Supporting this message was President Trump, who twice declared to reporters that the war is over, just to make the point clear.
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Trump: “The war is over. The war is over. Okay. Do you understand that?”
Journalist: “It’s going to hold?”
Trump: “I think so. I think it’s going to hold. I think people are... A lot of reasons why it’s going to hold. But I think people are tired of it. It’s been... It’s been centuries. Okay. Not just recent. It’s been centuries. I think people are tired of it. Yeah. The ceasefire is going to hold. Well, look. I solved... This will be my eighth war that I’ve solved. And I hear there’s a war now going between Pakistan and Afghanistan. I said, I’ll have to wait till I get back. You know, I’m doing another one. Because I’m good at solving wars. I’m good at making peace. And it’s an honour to do it. I saved millions of lives. Millions of lives.”
Even as the Western street protest leadership begrudges providing any credit to Trump, Hamas thanked the president and stated clearly that this would not have been possible without him.
Hamas: “Without the personal interference of President Trump, in this case, I don’t think that it would happen to reach this end, the end of the war. Therefore, yes, we thank President Trump and his personal efforts to interfere and to pressure Israel to make an end of this massacre and slaughtering.”
Yalda Hakim: “You have also called on President Trump to ensure that the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, sticks to its obligations. Do you trust that President Trump will do that and will continue the pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu?”
Hamas: “Look, when it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu, we don’t trust him at all and his government and his state. We have a long, long experience with undermining and sabotaging agreements with the Palestinians, not only with Hamas. I’m talking about decades of sabotaging agreements with the Palestinians and even with other countries, which has already signed with Israel the so-called normalisation agreement. Therefore, yes, we believe and we hope that President Trump continue to interfere personally and to exercise the maximum pressure on Netanyahu to fulfil its obligation. First, as according to the deal, and second, according to the international law as an occupying power. Because I think without this pressure, without this personal interference from President Trump, this would not happen.”
Even Putin has praised Trump for the achievement, leaving little room for doubt that he genuinely believes Trump to be a peacemaker.
Putin: “Но достоин ли и не достоин действующий президент США Нобелевской премии, я не знаю. Но он реально много делает для того, чтобы разрешить такие сложные решения. Десятилетиями длящиеся, годами, а то и десятилетиями длящиеся кризисы. Я уже говорил точно, я знаю по отношению к кризису на Украине, он искренне стремится к этому. Чего-то там удалось, чего-то не удалось, может быть, еще нам многое удастся сделать. Он точно... Старается, точно работает над этими вопросами, вопросами достижения мира и разрешения сложных международных ситуаций. Вот самый яркий пример – это ситуация на Ближнем Востоке. Если удастся довести до конца всё, к чему Дональд стремился…”
Putin “It is not for me to judge whether or not the current US President is worthy or not of a Nobel Prize, I don’t know. But he’s really doing a lot to resolve these complex issues. Crises that last for years, even decades. I’ve already said this for sure; I know, with regard to the crisis in Ukraine, he’s sincerely striving for this. Some things have been successful there, some haven’t, and perhaps we’ll still be able to accomplish much. He’s definitely trying, he’s definitely working on these issues, on achieving peace, and resolving complex international situations. The most striking example is the situation in the Middle East. If we can complete everything Donald has strived for...”
Yet the most effusive - perhaps even embarrassingly so - praise for Trump came from the prime minister of the Muslim world’s only nuclear power, Pakistan.
Part 1, click to play:
Pakistan PM Shabaz Sharif: “(Today is the) greatest day in contemporary history, because peace has been achieved after untiring efforts efforts led by President Trump who is genuinely a man of peace who has relentlessly and untiringly worked throughout these months, day in and day out, to make this world a place to live with peace and prosperity. I would say that Pakistan had nominated President Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize for his outstanding, extraordinary contributions to first stop war between India and Pakistan and then achieve ceasefire along with his very wonderful team….contd. below)”
Contd. part 2, click to play:
Pakistan PM Shabaz Sharif: “And today again I would like to nominate this great president for Nobel peace prize, because I genuinely feel that he’s the most genuine and most wonderful candidate for peace prize because he has brought, not only peace in South Asia, saved millions of people, their lives, and today, here in Sharm al-Shaikh achieving peace in Gaza is saving millions of lives in the Middle East. Mr. President, I would like to salute you. for your exemplary leadership, visionary leadership. And I think that you’re the man this world needed most at this point in time. World would always remember you as a man who did everything, went out of the way to stop seven and today eight wars. I would like to thank my very dear brother, Sheikh Tameem (Emir of Qatar). He’s a who has really worked very hard along with others to achieve peace in this region. My very dear brother, President Tayyip Erdogan (of Turkey), His Majesty King Abdullah (of Jordan). And of course, my very dear brother, Mohammed bin Zayed of UAE. And of course, my very dear brother, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (Muhammad Bin Salman). And he has also... been very very helpful and contributed very valuably in this wonderful peace process. Ladies and Gentlemen, I wouldn’t want to take more of your time suffice to say had it not been for this gentleman (President Trump) not only - who knows India and Pakistan are both nuclear powers - had he not intervened along with his wonderful team, during those four days, the war could have escalated to a level. Who would have lived to tell what happened? And similarly, here in this part of the world, in the Middle East. Mr. President, your valuable contribution along with President Sisi, I think history will remember in golden words. I wouldn’t say more...accept God bless you. God give you long life to serve like this for all time to come. Thank you very much.”
As Trump said after the Pakistani PM’s speech, there’s not much else left to say after that.
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3) The Gaza Plan
It is important to clarify that this peace deal is not specifically a deal for a Palestinian state. That question will be resolved in a separate deal. This peace deal was a deal for an end to the war and the reconstruction of Gaza.
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Journalist: “I would like to ask you about your conversations with world leaders today, you said that everybody is unified over your plan. But we had President Sisi calling for a two-state solution, an independent Palestinian state.”
Trump: “You’re talking about a different plan. I’m talking about something, very much different. We’re talking about rebuilding Gaza. I’m not talking about single-state or double-state or two-state. We’re talking about rebuilding Gaza.”
Journalist: “What’s the road ahead for governing Gaza?”
Trump: “Well we’re gonna have to see. I mean, a lot of people like the one-state solution. Some people like the two state solution. We’ll have to see. I haven’t commented on that.”
Journalist: “How do you see bridging that gap, because, you know, the Arab countries they don’t…?”
Trump: “At some point I’ll decide what I think is right, but I’d be in coordination with other states, and other countries.”
To secure an end to the war and to guarantee the reconstruction of Gaza, Muslim-majority regional military power, and Nato member, Turkey will provide peacekeepers on the ground.
The Turks have already made it clear that their presence is aimed at thwarting any Israeli attempts to renege on the peace.
To this end, leading country of the Sunni Muslim world Saudi Arabia has pledged $90 million in funds for Gaza’s reconstruction.
4) Who is Excluded From the Peace Deal?
It is worth noting that neither Hamas nor Netanyahu were present at the Gaza peace summit. Netanyahu was excluded because…
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