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Israel and Hamas have quietly begun indirect talks in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, a development that should give every American who believes in peace through strength cautious hope. After almost two years of brutal conflict and unbearable suffering, mediators are finally back at the table trying to broker a phased end to the fighting.
Washington, Cairo and Doha are driving the process, and that includes figures from the Trump administration stepping up to push a concrete plan that prioritizes the return of hostages and a staged ceasefire. This is diplomacy that actually aims to deliver results rather than virtue-signaling platitudes, and it’s right that experienced envoys are in the room doing the hard work.
At the center of the proposal is a hostage-for-prisoner framework and a phased pause in hostilities — the kind of practical, step-by-step approach Americans understand: deliver the living home, ease the suffering, then negotiate longer-term arrangements. Hamas has engaged with mediators on those mechanics, and Egypt and Qatar are playing the essential role of intermediaries to get the logistics right.
Let’s be blunt: talks are one thing, and the battlefield is another — Israel has rightly kept pressure on terrorists even as negotiators shuttle between delegations, because surrendering security for headlines would be a betrayal of Israeli lives. Civilians on both sides have paid a horrific price, and Israel cannot be expected to take a security risk for an empty promise from a group that has proven time and again it cannot be trusted.
Conservatives should applaud serious, enforceable diplomacy while demanding real guarantees: disarmament, verification, and a lasting mechanism to prevent Hamas from rebuilding its terror machine. Domestic political pressure inside Israel from the right is real and shows why any deal must protect Israeli sovereignty and the ability to act decisively against future threats.
Americans who care about the safety of our allies and the return of kidnapped innocents should back tough, smart negotiations and hold mediators to account — no naïve concessions and no moral equivalence with terrorists. If this effort can bring hostages home and move toward a secure, stable Gaza without empowering Hamas, it will be the product of firm diplomacy, strong deterrence, and the will of free peoples to stand for order over chaos.
