Barely three days before Donald Trump takes office as the 47th President of the United States, one of the major conflicts in the Middle East that has threatened to engulf the region, is about to come to a close. For the first time since the devastating war that reduced Gaza to rubble, to an open-air graveyard for some 47,000 Palestinians caught in the middle, and Israel’s steady decimation of Hamas, a peace deal may be at hand.