{"id":39829,"date":"2025-10-17T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39829"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:08:24","slug":"brent-nelsen-comments-on-middle-east-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-comments-on-middle-east-peace-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen comments on Middle East peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a>, a regular contributor on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2025\/10\/13\/expert-talks-about-peace-deal-signing-middle-east\/\">FOX Carolina News<\/a>, spoke with anchor Justin Dougherty about the Middle East peace deal between Hamas and Israel. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, characterized the signing as a &#8220;joyful&#8221; day with the return of hostages and the flow of food and medical supplies to Gaza. But he added that time will tell if the agreement will spark a real turning point in the conflict considering the many ways the process could &#8220;go wrong.&#8221; Amid a massive rebuilding effort in the region, it&#8217;s unknown if Hamas will disarm and relinquish control of Gaza, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the same FOX Carolina interview, Nelsen also commented on the U.S. government shutdown and how it will impact federal employees and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelsen, a regular contributor on FOX Carolina News, talks Middle East peace and the U.S. government shutdown with anchor Justin Dougherty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39846,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829\/revisions\/39846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}