Trump dominates the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit: The Declaration for Peace and Reconstruction in Gaza

The important gathering successful Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday unfolded arsenic a one-man show, wherever leaders from much than 20 countries, on with the UN Secretary-General, expressed their enactment for the Gaza ceasefire statement and for Trump’s program for bid and the shaping of a New Middle East.

It was expected that Donald Trump would prehend the accidental not lone to item his undeniable occurrence successful achieving the ceasefire and the speech of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, but besides to laic the foundations — with the enactment of each attendees — for a process that helium considers the lone way to lasting bid successful the Middle East.

The American president wanted to bask a time helium believed was rightfully his. Through a barrage of 3 large nationalist addresses — successful the Knesset, astatine the opening, and astatine the closing of the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit — helium thanked those who contributed to the agreement, confidently predicted the enactment of each participants for his Middle East plan, and warned those who mightiness reason him.

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With his trademark idiosyncratic style, Trump enactment respective overseas leaders successful awkward positions arsenic they listened to his often unconventional remarks — adjacent by U.S. statesmanlike standards.

For example, helium told Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni that helium would telephone her “beautiful, though if idiosyncratic said that successful America, they mightiness get successful occupation for it.”

He besides turned to Emmanuel Macron, who had chosen a spot acold from the cameras, and remarked, “You indispensable beryllium avoiding the spotlight.”

French President Emmanuel Macron, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

In his speech, Trump besides stated that helium thanked everyone who attended the summit, “but determination are immoderate I don’t peculiarly similar — they whitethorn not cognize it yet, but they’ll find out.”

By contrast, helium was exceptionally lukewarm toward Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — whom helium said helium would enactment again successful the adjacent elections — and helium erstwhile again praised Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, showing that his narration with the Turkish person remains strong.

As for the Arab leaders, Trump made nary effort to fell his “intentions,” arsenic helium turned astatine slightest doubly toward the representatives of the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, saying: “These guys person a batch of money,” intelligibly indicating whom helium expects to money Gaza’s reconstruction efforts.

In a somewhat grotesque scene, Trump addressed each person individually arsenic the Gaza Summit concluded, with Trump and the leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey signing the Sharm el-Sheikh Declaration — a papers outlining a wide and somewhat vague model for “the time after,” not lone for Gaza but for the full region

From left: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

The Trump Declaration for Lasting Peace and Prosperity promotes a consensual rhetoric of peace, emphasizing cooperation, economical reconstruction, and determination stability, mounting the signifier for a caller signifier of governmental equilibrium successful the Middle East.

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 13, 2025

The substance includes a wide notation to the request to destruct extremism and radicalism. Special accent is placed connected the spiritual and taste value of the portion and the extortion of beatified sites.

It prioritizes diplomacy arsenic the means to resoluteness conflicts and presents a imaginativeness for the prosperity of the peoples of the portion — implicitly recommending the enlargement of the Abraham Accords. The declaration acknowledges adjacent rights for Israelis and Palestinians, though without explicit notation of a two-state solution. Notably, the papers was not signed by either of the 2 superior parties — Israel oregon the Palestinian Authority.

The American president declared: “We achieved the hardest portion — present comes the casual part,” reflecting a wholly unconventional attack and knowing of the Middle East.

If aggravated diplomatic unit connected Netanyahu and subject unit connected Hamas led to the ceasefire, the roadworthy to imperishable bid and the remaking of the New Middle East remains agelong and difficult.

Following the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit, the adjacent challenging signifier begins: the disarmament of Hamas, the commencement of Gaza’s reconstruction, the withdrawal of Israeli forces, the instauration of a Palestinian information force, the enactment of an planetary stabilization mission, and, crucially, the constitution of a Peace Council to oversee Gaza’s governance.

Turkey emerges strengthened from the Gaza developments. It secured a starring relation successful brokering the ceasefire and gained power successful the bid process — actively progressive portion maintaining its hostile stance toward Israel.

Indeed, the Turkish presidency’s propaganda apparatus dispersed the quality yesterday day that Benjamin Netanyahu’s canceled travel to Sharm el-Sheikh — portion Mahmoud Abbas attended — was owed to a “veto” reportedly imposed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

According to the aforesaid reports, Erdoğan ordered his level to ellipse successful the aerial until Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the American broadside assured him that the Israeli premier curate would not beryllium attending the summit.
In immoderate case, the U.S. president made it wide that helium values Erdoğan — and it remains to beryllium seen whether his earlier connection successful Washington, that helium had asked “for a fewer things” from the Turkish president successful bid to presumption the F-35 contented favorably, is so related to Turkey’s stance successful facilitating the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

“I don’t cognize why, but I similar pugnacious radical much than mild, easygoing people. Maybe it’s a substance of property — I don’t know. But this man from a spot called Turkey has 1 of the strongest armies successful the world. In fact, the service is adjacent stronger than astir radical realize. If you look astatine immoderate of the caller conflicts, they were ever connected the beforehand enactment — and they were winning. Yet adjacent erstwhile they were winning, they didn’t brag oregon request recognition. He conscionable wants to beryllium near alone. He’s genuinely a ‘tough guy,’ but he’s my friend. And whenever I needed him, helium was ever determination for me. So I privation to convey President Erdoğan,”
was the American president’s glowing tribute to his Turkish counterpart.

Through this process, Turkey has besides drawn person to Egypt, and their shared involvement successful achieving a sustainable solution for Gaza is creating a assemblage of goals that facilitates efforts to reconstruct relations betwixt Ankara and Cairo.

However, it is wide that if Turkey and Erdoğan privation to support an progressive relation successful developments, this cannot hap done a continued refusal to coexist with Israel and its morganatic representative, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This volition undoubtedly beryllium to beryllium a hard trial for the Turkish president.

In Israel and successful Sharm el-Sheikh, the archetypal pages of Trump’s program for a New Middle East of “peace and prosperity” person begun to beryllium written — though galore chapters remain, for now, unwritten.