In the third week of Operation Gideon Chariots II, much earlier than planned, Hamas leader Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, surrounded by hostages, agreed to an outline that no one believed he would agree to.
Some in the IDF have been walking around ever since with a sense of loss, similar to what senior IDF officials felt when they saw Yasser Arafat leaving Beirut at gunpoint in 1982 at the end of a siege. But Arafat did not have hostages as human shields then.
Now, the PA that the mass murderer founded is seemingly returning to the center of affairs in Gaza. Israel has made three concessions on the Palestinian issue, all of them symbolic or hypothetical.
THE FIRST: acceptance in principle in the future of the Palestinians as partners, subject to the terms of the Trump plan, and in short - if they become Swiss.