Ziva's Perspectives

As published in Newsmax . November 5, 2025. When the last 20 living hostages were freed from Gaza on October 13, it wasn't career diplomats who sealed the deal. It was Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed "deal-maker-in-chief." As he told CNBC's Joe Kernen, "I'm different than other presidents. I'm a deal-maker. I've made deals all my life." And this one was big: a 20-point Gaza peace framework backed by Israel, Western powers and key Muslim states — all committed to eliminatin