There is no need to embrace ecstatically all of Donald Trump’s hyperbole in order to welcome his peace plan for Gaza. Perhaps, if we are fortunate, it will secure the everlasting peace the president dreams about. That is not an ignoble aim, however easy it is to mock.
If the plan succeeds, it will not just bring peace and security to Gaza: it will clear a path to a two-state solution and the creation of a state of Palestine, coexisting alongside a more secure Israel. That, in turn, would help to defuse wider conflicts in the Middle East, and ease the “clash of civilisations” between the Islamic world and the West that assorted terrorists have done so much, for decades, to foment.
