There is something depressingly familiar about Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest rejection of the US-backed Gaza roadmap. At a moment when the region desperately needs a credible path out of war, the Israeli prime minister has once again placed maximalist demands ahead of compromise.

Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel rejects the 15-point plan and will not withdraw its forces from Gaza until Hamas is “genuinely disarmed” is more than a disagreement over sequencing. It raises the fundamental question of whether the Israeli government is prepared to accept any political........

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