There is no office more burdened by impossible choices than that of the Israeli prime minister. When Benjamin Netanyahu steps into the cabinet room today to present the Gaza ceasefire deal, he does so not as a tactician manoeuvring for political points, but as a statesman carrying the unbearable weight of a people’s pain, fear, and moral resolve. By contrast, the commentator’s role is easier. We have the luxury of analysis, the freedom to err, and none of the irredeemable consequences. He does not.

The Palestinian movement has not earned peace. It must show that it wants more than survival, more than revenge, more than martyrdom. That it wants a future

In this moment, the prime minister is not alone. Standing beside him in purpose and political courage is President Donald J. Trump, who,

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