The Israel-Hamas ceasefire entered a third day Tuesday, while US President Donald Trump said he doubted the fragile deal would hold.

“Gaza is like a massive demolition site,” Trump said as he signed a flurry of executive orders following his inauguration.

Asked whether he believed the two sides would maintain the truce, Trump said: “That’s not our war; it’s their war. But I’m not confident.”

Trump had claimed credit for the three-phase ceasefire agreement announced ahead of his return to the White House by Qatar and the United States, following months of fruitless negotiations under his predecessor Joe Biden.

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        They did their job. They made sure the current administration knows about it and does their owners’ bidding.

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          Israel killing a child in Gaza and violating the ceasefire in a single day is huge news.

          If Hamas killed an Israeli child during the ceasefire the front page of Reuters would have a spot left.

          No major newspaper besides Aljazeera has given it the time of day so far.

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            Right, but is that really surprising, is what I mean…

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    Bullshit. Donald Trump is always confident. If he saying publically that he is not , all that means is that he has already cut a deal with Bibi to blow up the cease fire and blame it on the Palestinians.

    And if he is calling Gaza a demolition site, that just means he is already planning to build a resort over it.

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    Of course it won’t. He doesn’t want it to hold. He is okay with Israel invading and settling. It is what he wants.

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      It’ll make the christian evangelicals in his base happy. They want a dominant Israel so that Jesus will come back.

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    And now France24 is reporting Trump’s assessment of a geopolitical situation as if he knows anything? How pathetic.