Yesterday, President Donald Trump unveiled a 20-point proposal for ending the devastating conflict in Gaza. On paper, it’s a mostly sensible deal—and certainly better than the alternative, which is what it should be measured against. Among other elements, the plan would end the war, return the remaining hostages, surge aid into Gaza, disarm and potentially exile Hamas, and provide an eventual pathway toward Palestinian self-government. Crucially, the proposal also repudiates Trump’s prior push to “clean out” Gazans in order to build an American resort, reversing an egregious blunder that had fanned the Israeli settler right’s dream of ethnically cleansing Gaza.

In short, the Trump plan is a bunch of generally reasonable ideas that have been circulating for years but have not been implemen

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