The most important optic of President Donald Trump’s Gaza summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was who was absent from the roster of world leaders standing behind him as he declared peace had come to the Middle East.

Among the missing were the key players who will determine whether the president’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza ever gets beyond its first phase: the ceasefire-for-hostages deal that, praise the heavens, returned the 20 living Israeli hostages and permitted desperately needed aid to begin flowing into Gaza.

The stunning absence of those essential figures has received far too little attention from the media. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who insists the Gaza war isn’t over, stayed home. And even more telling, so did Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, an

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