Sahar Huneidi is an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter. She is the author of A Broken Trust: Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians (2001) and The Hidden History of the Balfour Declaration (2019).
In the month since the ceasefire on 8 April, Trump’s rhetoric has swung erratically between talk of total victory and apocalyptic ultimatums (‘a whole civilisation will die tonight’), between broadcasting imminent peace and the sudden withdrawal of proposals. On 1 May, Trump declared the war ‘terminated’, only to announce Project Freedom on 4 May to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Less than 24 hours later he pulled the plug.
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