‘If you are sceptical, you have every reason to be skeptical’

Ali Harb
Oct 9, 2025

Reporting from Washington, DC

Experts say Israel has been increasingly acting as a rogue state, daily violating the ceasefire with Lebanon and the disengagement agreement with Syria. That is in addition to its well-documented breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza.

The Netanyahu government also unilaterally nixed a Gaza truce deal after its first phase was completed earlier this year.

So, Trump – as the guarantor of the current Gaza agreement – is seen as the only force that can stop Israel from resuming the war after the release of the captives in the first phase of the truce.

“The entire deal hinges on a convicted felon convincing an indicted war criminal to do the right thing,” said Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel programme at the Arab Center Washington DC.

“If you are sceptical, you have every reason to be skeptical.”

*Ali Harb is a writer based in Washington, DC. He reports on US foreign policy, Arab-American issues, civil rights and politics.

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