Donald Trump has always believed the art of the deal could solve anything.

It was his creed in business, then in politics: the conviction that every conflict, no matter how intractable, can be negotiated into submission. So when he set his sights on one of his trickiest second-term goals—ending the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas—he didn't turn to diplomats or generals. He enlisted two men who spoke his language: Steve Witkoff, a fellow real-estate developer turned special envoy, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and the family's bridge to the Middle East.

After painstaking efforts, Witkoff and Kushner emerged with the framework of an accord that promises, at least for now, to quiet one of the world's most destabilizing conflicts. Under the agreement, accepted by both parties this w

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