Trump’s day of days in the Middle East: It’s a win… take it

The Two Matts

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News, News Commentary, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Matts marvel at the extraordinary day that has just passed - first in the Knesset in Jerusalem, then in Sharm Al-Sheik in Egypt - as Donald Trump’s whirlwind victory parade signals the start of what we should all pray is a lasting peace. How do we square the undoubted leap out of the catastrophe of war in Gaza with the president’s ghastly autocratic brutality at home? Should we even care how we got here … and just be grateful that we have? And what comes now in a Gaza pummelled to oblivion?

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