Nigeria, Oct. 16 -- US President Donald Trump may be getting ahead of himself with the encouraging signs that, following the ceasefire in Gaza, the world might have another opportunity to end the Middle East crisis, one of the world's longest-running conflicts.

It was a conflict in which Trump took sides with Israel - vetoing resolutions at the UN, supporting Israeli attacks on sovereign states, including Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and feigning ignorance of the attack on Qatar. It seemed no price was too high to "cleanse" Gaza and relocate Gazans away from their homeland to create a nice piece of real estate, a Mediterranean Mar-a-Logo, perhaps.

Trump's rhetoric emboldened Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in no small measure...