Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu may finally have managed to drive this one right to the edge.

Trump’s Board of Peace was already floundering. Israel was still blocking aid, Gaza was still being starved and bombed, and this grand new institution with its flags, crest and very important-looking blue backdrop was producing about as much peace as a parking enforcement notice.

Then the civilian government Israel had spent years blaming for everything when it comes to Gaza went and dissolved itself.

The guns might not have vanished. But the government did. And with it went that broad Israeli claim that Hamas still controls every part of Gaza’s civilian administration and that no replacement exists.

Netanyahu can still argue about disarmament. What he cannot keep doing is using Hamas’s civilian government as the reason the civilian  ...