On my home office wall hangs a framed poster with the word peace in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.I acquired it in Jerusalem in November 1977 when I was covering Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic visit there, a stunning event that truly changed the Middle East. Once Egypt — then the Arab world’s foremost military power — signed a peace treaty with Israel, any prospect for a future Arab-Israeli ground war came to an end.

The Donald Trump-brokered ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, for which he deserves full credit, could be the first step toward a similar radical shift in the region. But for now, it is only a bare beginning. It won’t “end the war in Gaza,” nor will it create “peace, hopefully everlasting peace,” as the president promised. We can celebrate the freeing of brutalized

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