Two plans for a Day After are on the table - now Netanyahu must set out Israel's vision

“Better truth than illusions,” said the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, yesterday as he urged scepticism over Donald Trump’s motives in claiming Ukraine could recapture all its lost territories.

- Patrick Wintour

The same could be said about the US president’s new approach to Palestine, but suddenly the optimists are back, and the two-state solution has emerged from the rubble of two years of war in Gaza - apparently resurrected as a viable proposition.

The US envoy Steve Witkoff talks of a 21-point White House plan for Palestine that he claims regional leaders broadly support - and which, according to Emmanuel Macron, is compatible with the plan set out in the New York declaration endorsed by the UN general assembly this week.

But how can there be such a convergence between the two plans - one American and one backed by the UN - and is this just another Trump-induced mirage?

The optimistic take is that it is possible that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and the former British prime minister Tony Blair have finally exerted their influence inside the White House, enabling a new way of thinking about the day after war ends in Gaza. According to one version of this vision, Blair himself would head a body called the Gaza International Transitional Authority for as long as five years. It would seek a UN mandate to be Gaza’s “supreme political and legal authority” for five years.