To no one’s surprise, Hamas signaled this week that it planned to reject President Donald Trump’s proposal for the future of the Gaza Strip, as did the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which took part in the Oct. 7 attack against Israel and, the BBC reported, has held some Israeli hostages. A spokesman for Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government even long before Trump came into the picture, told the BBC that the plan “ignores interests of Palestinian people.”

More accurately, it ignores the interests of Hamas, which the plan requires to disarm and effectively disappear. As it should. Otherwise Hamas will be ignoring the interests of the Palestinian people.

For it is impossible to see how the people would be better served by any other eventuality; certainly, not

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