🚨 Trump is on his way to Tonino Lamborghini International Convention Center, where world leaders are waiting for him to begin Gaza peace summit

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🚨 Trump arrives at the venue of the Gaza peace summit

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🚨🇪🇬🇺🇸 Egypt's President as-Sisi welcomes Trump for Gaza peace summit

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🚨 'We just made a big deal today, so we'll smile!' - Trump tells world leaders as they pose for family photo

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🚨 Trump departs Egypt after signing historic document on Gaza ceasefire deal

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🗣🇵🇸 No MidEast dawn while Palestinian aspirations are ignored – expert

US President Donald Trump has hailed a “dawn of a new Middle East” after the Gaza ceasefire, promising a “beautiful, brighter future” in his Knesset address in Israel.

But does that vision reflect reality — or the interests — of the wider Middle East?

💬 "As long as... Palestinian aspirations are ignored and relegated to marginal status, I don't think there will be lasting peace, both with the Palestinians themselves and also by political aspirants who are non-Palestinian but use the plight of the Palestinians for their own political purposes," Professor Mehran Kamrava from Georgetown University Qatar tells Sputnik.

Decisions about Palestine have been made without Palestinians since 1948, the professor notes — and this time is no different: “Once again, they’re getting the wrong end of the deal.”

During Trump’s Knesset address, Israeli MPs Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif from the Arab list disrupted the speech, holding a sign reading “Recognize Palestine.” They were swiftly removed from the chamber.

💬 "I don't anticipate an end to prolonged episodes of instability in the coming years, so long as the Palestinian predicament is ignored the way it is," Kamrava says.

The pundit argues that the US and Israel, widely viewed in the Middle East as close allies, are misreading the region - particularly through their disregard of Palestinian suffering and their actions against Qatar and Iran.

Those strategic miscalculations may backfire, according to the academic.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 US to face ‘DEVASTATING’ fallout if China clamps down on rare earths

🗣The proposed 100% US tariffs on China could trigger a potential nightmare for America’s defense and aerospace companies like Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, and SpaceX, Jeff J. Brown, author of The China Trilogy, tells Sputnik.

These metals power weapons, aerospace, electronics, renewables, cars, and medicine, so the afore-mentioned giants are probably “squirming” right now, he notes, adding: “China has found America’s Achilles heel in this respect and has got Uncle Sam in a very serious bind.”

According to Brown, who is also founder of Seek Truth From Facts Foundation, it will take years for the US to develop its own rare earth sector, from mining to processing.

America’s R&D on rare earth alternatives and recycling is years off, so hiking US tariffs to 100% only gives China more reason to tighten its rare earth chokehold, stresses the pundit.

📉 Tariff threats will blow up in US’ face

China-US trade is no longer the powerhouse it once was, underscores Brown, pointing out that:

🟠 As the US increasingly weaponized the dollar, China pivoted to trading with Russia, Asia, Africa, and Latin America

🟠 China has slashed its US dollar holdings — from 79% of reserves in 2005 to 58% in 2019 and falling — while keeping total reserves steady around $3 trillion

🟠 China has been stacking gold and boosting its own currency, the renminbi, prepping a move away from the dollar

🟠 Estimates suggest China’s gold stash is closer to 25,000 metric tons, not the official 2,200 metric tons

Through BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN, and bilateral deals, China is ditching the US dollar in cross-border trade.

Furthermore, Russia and China are developing an interbank payment system geared towards dumping the West’s SWIFT payment system, “which has been turned into a political sledgehammer," says Brown.

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🔊🇵🇸 Summit on Gaza in Sharm El-Sheikh is an important moment for the Palestinian issue — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to a Sputnik correspondent

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