Arab leaders are being forced to deal with a question they have long kicked down the road: What to do with Hamas.

The plan drawn up by Egypt would replace Hamas with interim bodies controlled by Arab, Muslim and Western states, according to a draft seen by Reuters.

Israel has meanwhile embraced what it says is an alternative US proposal for the ceasefire itself and the release of hostages taken in Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war.

Reflecting at the end of her tenure, Deborah Lipstadt said that after the Hamas-led attack on Israel and the devastating war in Gaza, antisemitism became “almost normalized.”

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While Qatar has allowed Hamas to maintain an office in Doha, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates maintain a much harder line against Islamist organizations. The questions around what would ...

Trump, however, kept coming back to it again and again. Over the ensuing days, he repeatedly insisted the U.S. would in effect take complete ownership of Gaza (without putting U.S. troops on the ground or spending taxpayer money,