Itamar Ben-Gvir rejected the Gaza proposal. The only acceptable outcome, he said, was encouraging emigration and destroying Hamas. [1] Tuesday does not record a walk-back. The rejection still stands.

The paper's Monday brief already had Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Army Radio: no deal to halt attacks, full control if Hamas does not disarm. [2] Ben-Gvir is the coalition's harder edge of the same instrument. Cohen sits on the security cabinet. Ben-Gvir names the demographic end-state Cohen left implicit.

A Netanyahu spokesman told Reuters that Israel had expressed concerns to Washington about the disarmament plan. Hamas said it had shown flexibility and accused Israel of imposing facts on the ground. [2] Channel 13, cited in the same Ahram file, quoted officials saying the proposed agreement had no chance of being implemented. [1]

Trump can announce a Board of Peace. A minister who can walk the coalition can still refuse the text. Tuesday's completed U.S. politics fact is that refusal, still on the record, still unpaid for in a vote.

Emigration-and-destruction is not a sequencing dispute over who disarms first. [1] It is a different end-state. Readers who flatten Ben-Gvir into Cohen's skepticism will miss the coalition's harder noun.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington