Ein „neuer Naher Osten“ ist leichter zu verkünden als zu verwirklichen

As a long-overdue ceasefire takes hold amid the ruins of Gaza, it is impossible not to feel immense relief that this terrible war may at last be ending. During President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Jerusalem, he hailed “the historic dawn of a new Middle East.” But the Trump Administration cannot just declare an end to what the President calls “3,000 years” of conflict and move on to its domestic project of undermining the rule of law. “History resists the shortcut,” David Remnick writes.

The idyll of a “new Middle East” in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphalist view is one in which, “owing to his Churchillian leadership, the threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Yemen, and Iran are all diminished or defeated,” Remnick writes. “As for Netanyahu’s failure to safeguard the country on October 7th? All is forgotten.” This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself. It also overlooks the rage bred into the bones of young Palestinians, who have lost family members and friends but not their insistence on dignity and a home. “Real progress in the region, real justice and stability, will require healing, constancy, imagination, and endurance—day after day, year after year, long past any one Administration,” Remnick writes. Read more: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/a-new-middle-east-is-easier-to-declare-than-to-achieve](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/a-new-middle-east-is-easier-to-declare-than-to-achieve) 

The reason for the Israeli attacks, which were just now authorized to inform the public, is that Hamas fired anti-tank weapons towards IDF soldiers, resulting in the death of two soldiers.