U.S. President Donald Trump and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attend a world leaders' summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct. 13, 2025, on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. (OSV News photo/Suzanne Plunkett, pool via Reuters) Reading Robert Fisk’s posthumously released book, Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East, I was struck by something he said in the whistlestop tour chapter of the last century’s history of Israel and Palestine. Speaking on this particular subject, he observed “Anyone who tries to tell what he or she believes is the…
