It will remain safe to bet against any effort to resolve the more than century-old Arab-Israeli conflict. But by shredding the playbook that every effort to resolve the conflict in the past decades has followed—instead adopting seven commandments that accord with his instincts and temperament—President Trump has at least a shot at succeeding where all his predecessors have failed.

Shai Feldman is the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies and is a member of the Board of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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