A two-state solution? Been there done that. Israel was state one, Gaza was state two. Gaza was under the armed political leadership of Hamas for almost two decades. It was a violent co-existence and hasn’t ended well.

While President Trump’s controversial ‘Gaza reset’ idea is an optimistic and gymnastic response to the immediate geographic challenge, the real challenge lies not in who rebuilds and runs the Gaza strip but how to shut down the deadly fumes of ideology on which the Hamas engine runs: the inter-generational hatred of Jews as a people and Israel as a nation.