David Ignatius on Gaza Peace Plan: This Is Basically a Surrender Deal for Hamas

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IGNATIUS: "So, Joe, first, this is basically a surrender deal. I watched one of those go down in Beirut after the 1982 Israeli invasion and Yasser Arafat, then the head of the PLO, was told, 'Get out of Beirut and you can have amnesty,' and he did. And he went on to fight other battles, but from an exile location. That may happen here. I think the pressure on Hamas from Palestinians to accept the deal and see an end to this war is going to be considerable. What I found striking about the presentation yesterday by President Trump was that this is a detailed plan, at last, for the day after the war ends. For more than a year, we’ve been talking here on the show about the absence of the day-after planning, of planning for a transition when the guns finally fall silent. It’s finally here, on paper, and it’s a fairly well fashioned plan. There’s a board of peace, a kind of showy sounding body that will be headed by President Trump, but will probably really be run by Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. But under that, there’ll be a group of Palestinian technocrats. I’m told that the names of those people have already been selected and vetted.”