Last week, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had signed off on the first phase of his Gaza peace plan — one of the most significant diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East in years. For our nation and the world, this was a moment of rare convergence, of both clarity and action.

While much of the world has grown accustomed to the language of stalemate and moral equivocation, Trump’s foreign policy achievements underscore a deeper principle that realism and prudence are themselves instruments of peace. His most recent address to the United Nations General Assembly reflected the same conviction. It was not the speech of a diplomat pandering to anyone, but of a statesman determined to reassert that truth-telling is the first act of order. ….

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