The Editors of The New York Sun reflect on the peace treaty brokered between Israel and Hamas by President Trump, writing:

“The war is over,” President Trump said repeatedly today as the hostages started returning from Gaza, when all of those being held as of this morning eventually released. “You won.”  It is certainly a moment for joyful celebration. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the most of the moment — and spoke for millions — when he welcomed Mr. Trump in the Knesset and spoke of how the rejectionist leaders among Israel’s neighbors are “all gone.”

One of the things of which we’ve been thinking at this moment is the first dispatch our editor ever filed to a newspaper from overseas. It was in 1967, just after the end of the Six Day War. We were escorted by a military officer into Gaza, where in a sandy lot we met with two dozen Arabs who spoke of how they would never give up their claims to Gaza, nor could they imagine making peace with Israel. They warned that Israel did not rule ruthlesslessly enough.

It has been more than 50 years since then, and the story of Gaza is still unfolding. In the half century we’ve learned to be parsimonious with our optimism. It has been, though, half a century in which the opposition to a peaceful settlement was never coming from the Jewish state. And in which it’s hard to remember a moment quite like this, when the peace commission, chaired by Mr. Trump, will be convened to manage the quest for a permanent peace.

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