The summit was more of a political double game to absolve Arab leaders of their responsibility and to present the world with an illusion of a solution without really addressing the core issue—the Hamas regime. The Cairo declaration was welcomed by Hamas, showing that the conference was more show than substance, a kind of political mirage. The Cairo summit was nothing more than a bluff.

Someone who bluffs less is the new US President Donald Trump. It may be that he annoys world politics with his creative ideas, but straight talk—he thinks outside the box. Of course, that’s risky, but if the old models haven’t worked anyway, they won’t work now either. That takes courage, and that’s exactly what the Arab governments lack. In the end, the Palestinians are deceiving themselves because those who refuse to learn from their mistakes are foolish.

Even though Hamas was not physically present, the terrorist organization dictated certain baselines behind the scenes. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty himself admitted that the proposed technocratic administration of...

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