Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu could decide the Gaza ceasefire’s fate

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Donald Trump’s Oval Office could be Binyamin Netanyahu’s brick wall.

That is if the president uses Tuesday’s meeting with Mr. Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit Washington since Mr. Trump returned to office, to ensure a successful Israeli-Hamas negotiation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement’s second phase.

For that, Messrs. Netanyahu and Trump would have to agree on who will administer the devastated Strip when the guns permanently fall silent and Israeli troops withdraw entirely from Gaza in the second phase.