> I also found Trump's signalling in the whole issue odd. His base and his cabinet is full of the most hard-line pro-israel figures imaginable, but then he goes forward and quotes Jeffrey Sachs and ostensibly pressures Netanyahu into accepting the ceasefire.

> Is this just his usual "appear unpredictable by all means" spiel or does he have a strategy there

He thinks past a certain point it looks bad to the median American and isn’t ideological enough to push it past that.