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

The paper's Tuesday brief already had that refusal on the U.S. politics ledger. Energy Minister Eli Cohen said there is no deal to halt attacks. [2] Ben-Gvir is the coalition's harder edge of the same instrument.

A Netanyahu spokesman told Reuters that Israel had expressed concerns to Washington about the disarmament plan. Channel 13, cited in the 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. Wednesday's completed fact is that refusal, still on the record.

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.

Wednesday's completed U.S. politics fact is that refusal, still unpaid for in a vote.

The Board of Peace is not a whip count.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington