President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his Middle East envoy Steven Witkoff have reportedly pitched “Operation Sunrise,” a plan to transform the Gaza Strip into a high-tech city and hub. It is impressive and ambitious. Team Trump always deserves credit for thinking outside the box rather than repeating the tired, old proposals of the past. In this case, however, one basic mistake will condemn the project to disaster: It fails to account for the self-destructive ideology that consumes Palestinian society.

Highlighting what could be in Gaza is welcome. What became Israel was a malarial patch of land, a discarded backwater until Zionist settlers drained swamps and transformed it into rich agricultural land. For all the talk by Palestinian advocates of Zionists as outsiders to the land, the Palestinians themselves were. The Arab influx into the land originated from today’s Syria and coincided with Zionist eradication of malaria. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt observed that,........

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