Trump Is Right to Restart the Gaza Plan. The Rule Must Stay the Same: Disarm First, Then Rebuild.

With Israel's election over, the President has told Netanyahu it is time to move. Floods and collapsing tents make the clock louder — but not one brick of reconstruction should outrun proof that Hamas is giving up its guns.

By Clara Hughes

The Israeli election is over, and President Trump wants his Gaza peace plan back on track. In a phone call Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initiated, the President told him he wants steps taken to implement the plan, Axios reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the matter. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, adviser Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff were on the call. Israel's Channel 12 reported the same thing: Trump wants progress regardless of which government is formed in Jerusalem. That is the right call. The plan was effectively frozen for months so it would not become a political grenade during Israel's Oct. 27 campaign. Now the campaign is done. Freezing it any longer would only help the one party that profits