Charles Johnson has a very different theory about the sudden end of the Israeli invasion of Gaza that revolves around the funding of the Trump coterie by Qatar:
The second Netanyahu tried to kill Hamas members in Qatar and thereby threatened Witkoff and Kushner family money — which is really Trump money — he was done. So you’re aware about what really caused the Gaza War to end. Netanyahu tried murdering Hamas in Qatar. That’s what it was — an attempted murder.
Qatari officials said if this behavior is allowed in our country, we are going to withdraw investments in the United States, including the money we have put behind your allies and your family.
President Trump said, “Woah, is there anything we can do to make this cool?” The Qataris said, “Yeah, we have a security guarantee. Let’s invoke it against Netanyahu.”
Trump made Netanyahu apologize to the Qataris and the Qataris rewarded America by announcing new investments in America, including an air base in Idaho.
I have no idea if any of this is real or relevant, as it’s entirely outside of my knowledge base, but the whole thing was definitely abrupt and weird. I certainly didn’t expect the ceasefire to hold, much less for Hamas to return the hostages and for the IDF to withdraw from Gaza. But, let’s face it, it wouldn’t be terribly surprising if the whole thing was about corruption and money rather than anything of ideological, strategic, spiritual, or historic import.