President Trump and his Gulf allies deserve great credit for arranging the current agreement between Hamas and Israel. But this is only step one in what could be a hundred-step process.

The agreement is also very fragile. A bullet fired at the wrong place and time could unhinge everything. And Hamas or Israel failing to make a single commitment could likewise be ruinous.

This is all very speculative. And no matter how difficult and potentially unworkable this first step may seem with a cease-fire, exchange of prisoners and partial Israeli withdrawal, that is the easy part.

As we all witnessed in Afghanistan after the Taliban quickly fell in 2001, and in Iraq in 2003, led to catastrophe. Nation-building in Afghanistan became a nightmare, just as imposing democracy in Iraq proved a fool's

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