Hamas Has No More Cards to Play

Mr. Shehada is a Palestinian analyst and a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

After five months of daunting negotiations with President Trump’s Board of Peace, Hamas agreed last month to a road map under which it and other armed Palestinian groups would decommission their heavy weapons and give up security control in Gaza. Hamas also agreed to step down from governing Gaza and accept the deployment of an international stabilization force. In return, Israel would halt airstrikes, withdraw its troops from Gaza and allow the devastated enclave to be rebuilt.

Hamas’s agreement represented a fragile opportunity to break out of an otherwise........

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