Kushner's purpose, Aug. 17 -- The room assembled at El Alamein on Sunday held almost everyone with a stake in the next phase of the Gaza agreement. Jared Kushner was there for Donald Trump. Nickolay Mladenov came as the Board of Peace's high representative, Tony Blair alongside him. Khalil al-Hayya sat opposite for Hamas, with Egypt's intelligence chief Hassan Rashad, the Qatari diplomat Ali al-Thawadi and a senior Turkish official filling out the mediators' side. The one party absent was the one that has spent the past fortnight refusing the plan.

a start to decommissioning weapons and military infrastructure, permission for an International Stabilization Force to deploy, and an undertaking that reconstruction can proceed without theft ...