Even for a man prone to hyperbole, President Donald Trump soared into the stratosphere this week by heralding the announcement of his new peace plan for the Middle East as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.” The twenty-point plan is ambitiously, if vaguely, designed to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza; bring home all the hostages, both dead and alive; create a committee to govern the territory; demilitarize Hamas; and eventually eliminate “any danger posed in the region.” It calls for Israeli troops to withdraw from Gaza, in phases, but allows them to keep an undefined security perimeter until there is no “resurgent terror threat.” “This is eternity,” Trump said, on Monday, while rambling for half an hour from a lectern in the East Room of the White House. “This

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