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July 21, 2025 
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Gaza is America’s transgression, too. Without lavish U.S. support, Israel couldn’t have attacked Gaza so ruthlessly for so long. The resulting devastation is also the darkly logical endpoint of decades of stagnant, destabilizing U.S. policy.
While our government plays a dangerous game of chicken with Iran and with every slain Palestinian civilian further detaching the violence from any semblance of strategy or endgame, it’s long past time for an unflinching look at U.S. behavior across the Middle East.
The good news? It’s a perfect moment for a total rebalancing. A wildly unpredictable President Trump fancies himself a master deal maker. He’s disposed to overturn generations of conventional wisdom and knee-jerk policy. The region is ripe for change, too: Longstanding power dynamics have collapsed, and every major player desperately needs an offramp. With everything up in the air, this ominous moment offers Trump a generational opportunity for peacemaking.
I’ve sketched out three mutually reinforcing deals that Trump could use his considerable leverage to broker. None of them would be easy, but they are possible, and Trump should try.
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