The Trump administration ’s 21-point plan to end the Israel-Hamas war is detailed and reasonable, apart from proposing that Tony Blair become the emir of Gaza . It lays out clear steps from deconfliction — Hamas releasing the remaining Israeli hostages, the Israeli military withdrawing — to the economic, social, and ultimately political reconstruction of Gaza . The plan is accepted by America’s Sunni client states in the region (the Saudis, the Emiratis, the Egyptians, and, at least hypothetically, the Turks and Qataris) and beyond (the British and the European Union).

More importantly, the plan was worked out with the Israelis . The Israeli military now controls almost all of the Gaza Strip and is making fast headway in Hamas’s last redoubt, Gaza City. The deeper Israel get

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