Today’s headlines make me want to scream! The guns may have stopped for the moment – but the Middle East hasn’t changed! The hatred bubbles beneath the cheering and weeping and parades on both sides.

Nobody is writing about it. Everybody is pretending trump pulled off a miracle – no cease fire forced by a bully is going to hold – it’s all a sham. 

When will the next round of violence break out, I have no idea, but it will – likely in the West Bank where nobody is doing anything to stop Netanyahu’s settlers from taking land from Palestinians! My guess is, it will be quite soon, within 6 months? a year? 

But you can’t tell me the Middle East has been changed. Not while Netanyahu is still in charge of Israel.

His intention to eradicate Palestinians hasn’t changed. trump may have threatened/strong armed him into going along with this Gaza deal, but there’s still Palestinians surviving in a destroyed Gaza and there are Palestinians in the West Bank.

Who knows, there may even have been a secret deal worked out between trump and Netanyahu during that White House visit that nobody is talking about – wouldn’t put it past either of them!

I don’t feel joyous today because the guns have stopped for the moment. We’ve been here before – the guns stopped for a short while, then Netanyahu resumed open conflict.

Why is this time any different?

I don’t understand the jubilation.

I certainly don’t feel any optimism!