Talks aimed at advancing Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war have been put on hold following US/Israel attack on Iran that’s ignited a broader Middle East conflict. This is disastrous for Trump’s major foreign policy objective, which he’s championed as his flagship Middle East peace initiative, the ‘Board of Peace.’
The timing couldn’t be worse, coming less than a month after Trump secured billions of dollars in pledges for Gaza from Gulf Arab states. Now those same countries are dodging Iranian missile attacks as the conflict escalates, endangering those financial commitments. Zaha Hassan, from the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, nailed it by asking whether this is “really money well spent now that they are dodging rocket fire.”
