As Monday dawned in Doha, where negotiators were set to meet and discuss the beginnings of a peace agreement to end the war in Gaza, prospects for ending a bloody conflict that upended regional stability and threatened to engulf the entire Middle East in war seemed closer than ever.
Back in Washington, Donald Trump similarly looks closer than ever to achieving the peacemaker label he’s long sought and often falsely claimed for himself by running around the world and claiming credit for ending multiple wars — the current count stands (allegedly) at seven.
