Trump set to inherit a Gaza war he doesn’t want but can’t end

By James M. Dorsey

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Gaza is gearing up to be a war on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s watch that he doesn’t want but may be unable to end.

Mr. Trump will likely discover that assembling a Middle East team closely aligned with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ultra-nationalist coalition partners will not solve the problem.

It’s a lesson Mr. Trump failed to learn during his first term as president when Palestinians from all political walks rejected his “deal of the century” that, at best, offered them a semblance of an independent state.