The New Yorker:

Many doubts prevail, but the deal is “political gold” for Benjamin Netanyahu either way.

By Robin Wright

Even for a man prone to hyperbole, President Donald Trumpsoared into the stratosphere this week by heralding the announcement of his new peace plan for the Middle East as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.” The twenty-point plan is ambitiously, if vaguely, designed to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza; bring home all the hostages, both dead and alive; create a committee to govern the territory; demilitarize Hamas; and eventually eliminate “any danger posed in the region.” It calls for Israeli troops to withdraw from Gaza, in phases, but allows them to keep an undefined security perimeter until there is no “resurgent terror threat.” “This is eternity,” Trump said, on Monday, while rambling for half an hour from a lectern in the East Room of the White House. “This is for forever.”

Oh, and, by the way, Trump revealed, he will chair a new international “board of peace” to monitor the plan’s implementation. “Not at my request, believe me,” he said. “I’m very busy, but we have to make sure this works.” No other leader in thousands of years of Middle East history had been able to secure permanent peace, Trump claimed. But he had.

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