Good morning. At the White House yesterday, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu marked their shared “peace plan” for Gaza by giving two entirely different press conferences at the same time.
To Trump, it was the ushering in of “eternal peace”: the end of the war and the start of a new harmony unknown for, “if you’re a scholar, you would say thousands of years.” To Netanyahu, it was an outcome which achieves Israel’s war aims, did not bring a Palestinian state closer, and left open the right to “finish the job”. To Hamas, meanwhile, it was a set of proposals that they still had not seen when the event came to an end.
