Meanwhile, on the streets of Gaza, a silence has taken over. As writer Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi explained this week, it’s nearly impossible for anyone to say anything anymore. “It feels like there is a constant fog inside me,” Ahmed Al-Wawi wrote. “I often know what I want to say, but the words just don’t come.”

But have no fear, President Donald Trump says he has a solution. On Monday, in an appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he unveiled what he called a 20-point “peace plan.” It obviously won’t end the killing or the apartheid. This becomes clear the moment you learn that Trump wants to appoint the blood-soaked former British prime minister Tony Blair to his so-called “Board of Peace.” This isn’t the only issue with the plan—for that you’ll have to read further—but, as Hamza Yusuf writes, for one of the chief architects of the disastrous Iraq War to “show his face and offer his services in the region displays a brass neck beyond belief.”

-Alana Pockros

Associate Editor, The Nation

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