As world and regional leaders gather in Sharm El-Sheikh for Monday’s Gaza summit, there will be some conspicuous absentees.

Alongside a triumphant Donald Trump will be Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the emir of Qatar and Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This grouping played a crucial role in keeping Hamas at the peace table in Cairo and Doha, despite such provocations as Israel’s lethal missile strike on Hamas negotiators and Qatari security personnel.

Hamas has not been invited to the summit, but can claim that Egypt, Qatar and Turkey represent its interests, and Israel and the Palestinian Authority will also not be there. Iran was invited, according to some accounts, but its president, Masoud Pezeshkian, certainly won’t be attending. Things are not what th

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