Al-Monitor Discovers Trump's Perennial 'Peace Summit' for 2025
The story, re-published by Al-Monitor, claims Hamas will release Israeli hostages before a 'Trump peace summit' in Egypt. This headline is quite the relic, hailing from October 2019, when the proposed deal involved freeing captives (not hostages, mind you) in exchange for 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. That was roughly four years before October 7, 2023, and Trump's 'deal of the century' died a quiet
death by 2020. Yet, here it is again, presented as current news. This journalistic archaeology (or simply copy-pasting old content) highlights how easily mainstream outlets recycle narratives, even when the timeline is completely divorced from reality. One might wonder if the aim isn't to inform, but to perpetuate a sense of a perpetually looming 'peace process' that never quite materializes,
while the actual conflict escalates. How many times can a 'peace summit' be announced before it becomes a 'peace farce'?