After a pivotal Allied victory, years into World War II, Winston Churchill famously proclaimed that when it came to hopes for the end of the war, it was “not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”

That sort of expectations setting is not President Donald Trump’s style. Appearing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday to present a new 20-point peace plan to end the war in Gaza, Trump declared it “one of the great days ever in civilization,” and suggested he was close not just to ending the war that has been raging for close to two years — but to bringing “eternal peace” after thousands of years of conflict in the Middle East.

That is probably slightly overstating things. But in fairness, there were some significant

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