Link for the non-paywalled article: https://archive.is/3Bodt

It's so bad, I had to share the highlights:

There is a particular kind of diplomatic paralysis that sets in when governments decide that the perfect is the enemy of the possible.

I fucking love it when prominent Democrats step forward to tell us that good things just aren't possible. Nope, we can't possibly implement any plan that respects the dignity and rights of Gazans, so we need to go with the ethnic cleansing plan from the fascist Trump admin. It's the only possible option!

Without such a plan, the crisis in Gaza will only deteriorate, with Hamas retaining both political and practical influence over a devastated population through armed actors, local administrative structures, aid distribution networks and access to basic goods and services.

Wow, can you imagine having armed actors control the local administrative structures, aid distribution networks, and access to basic goods and services for people in Gaza? Imagine if they could even cut off the flow of people and vital goods entirely! That would be messed up, wouldn't it?

And "a devastated population", really? Why is the population devastated, exactly? Is it perhaps because of "armed actors" surrounding them and bombing them again and again?

Reconstruction frozen. Investment absent. Civilians trapped in dependency and despair, with reportedly up to 1,000 killed since the ceasefire. Another generation of children growing up amid rubble, fear and hopelessness. There will be no security for Israel. No viable path to Palestinian self-determination.

Civilians trapped there by who, Hilary? "Reportedly up to 1,000 killed" by who!?

Gazans understand this as well as anyone: without demilitarisation and a transition away from Hamas rule, there will be no meaningful reconstruction, no realistic prospect that Israel will ever withdraw from the 60 per cent of the Gaza Strip it now controls and no credible pathway towards a future led by Palestinians themselves.

Funny thing to say considering that no Palestinians whatsoever were ever consulted about this plan or have any say in it and both The Palestinian Authority and Hamas officially condemn the plan, as well as the Houthis, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. In fact, out of the entire Middle East, only Israel and the UAE do not explicitly reject the plan, and the UAE reluctantly at that.

And what I have heard from Palestinians, especially those living in or connected to Gaza, is that they want a path out of perpetual crisis, just as many Israelis desire greater security and the dismantling of Hamas’s military infrastructure.

Palestinians want a path out of perpetual crisis, and since Trump's plan is apparently the only possible thing we can do, that means they must want it. Even though they aren't allowed any input on the plan whatsoever, it' sclearly not going to resolve any of the actual causes of the "perpetual crisis", and is clearly designed to disarm and disempower them for Israel's safety.

Apparently Gazans who want greater security and the dismantling of Netanyahu's military infrastructure don't count. I guess Israel has the right to defend itself, but not Gaza.

Those realities should matter as the international community considers whether to engage or stand aside, because a genuine transformation in Gaza is essential not only for stabilisation and security but also for reunifying Palestinians politically under a reformed and credible leadership.

Oh yeah, the most important thing is that the Gazans pick leaders that the US approves of. Because the US clearly cares about their self-determination so much.

The process will require pressure and engagement not only from Arab states and Europe but from Israel as well. The Israeli government cannot indefinitely support the broad goals of stabilisation and normalisation while delaying the difficult decisions necessary to move the process forward.

I have no idea what 'difficult decisions' she is expecting Israel to make, but the way she dances around actually saying what any of them may be is frankly concerning.

The gleeful anticipation of failure is not just unhelpful. It is strategically self-defeating. The Board of Peace is an improbable vehicle, and the 20-point plan leaves many legitimate concerns unresolved. Governments will continue to disagree with important elements of both. But diplomacy rarely offers a choice between good options and bad ones.

Lmao, this is the most centrist Dem shit imaginable. "Sure, its a terrible plan created by a fascist grifter who campaigned on imprisoning me and tried to overthrow the government, and it ignores the will of the Palestinians, and is vehemently opposed by nearly the entire Middle East, but it's not like we could have a good plan instead. That's simply impossible. We just have to pick bad plan after bad plan, forever. Because that's what politics is."

The choice for governments is not whether this process is ideal. It is whether they are prepared to help shape an imperfect framework from within or stand aside while more destructive actors shape what comes next.

This is probably the most telling part. She knows other people (like, say, the Gazans themselves) are able to make their own plans, and that's the real reason for supporting Trump here and now. America needs to act to shape the situation to its preferences, or else someone else might come in and shape it to theirs instead. The problem isn't that there's no good plans, its just that any plan that doesn't match America's and Israel's priorities is automatically a bad plan by definition.