If all goes according to the script, the first three stages of the Trump peace proposal will be enacted in the early part of this week. A ceasefire, temporary but hopefully to become permanent, has already taken effect. Limited aid has finally been allowed into Gaza. Hostages and detainees are now being released. What exists is a pause in hostilities, plus, in fairness, a clear determination among many actors, including US President Donald Trump and regional powers, to bring it all to an end. The position of Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition is ambivalent at best.

RIYADH: For two years, the world has watched Gaza burn. Tens of thousands have been killed, and yet amid the rubble, talk of peace has returned in the form of a new US-led plan…

OP-ED. The political scientist warns that Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza leaves Palestinians little say in determining their future.