The hostages will soon be home. That is a blessing. Food and aid will start flowing again to Gaza. That too is a blessing. Everything else in the 20-point plan seems a wish and a prayer.

This is not to denigrate Donald Trump‘s efforts, for clearly The American president is quite serious about his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. If more than half of what he’s proposed actually comes to pass, I will give the man his due. But a plan that offers amnesty to Hamas members who disarm seemed from the outset to be a non-starter with the right-wing flank of the Israeli government. That proved to be true.

Also, how willing will the more conservative side of the Israeli government be to relinquish the Israeli Defense Force’s position in the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel? Will Israeli troops truly leave at the agreed-upon time? What is that agreed-upon time?

And speaking of IDF withdrawal and leaving Gaza to the Palestinians, where is Saudi Arabia in all this? Would they be part of the governing coalition for Gaza? Normalization of relations Between the Saudis and Israelis was on the immediate horizon just days before Hamas attacked Israel. The Saudis remain adamant about self-determination for Palestinians and a two-state solution. If their support for this plan lags, will Hamas continue to honor it?

There are quite a few to-be-determined issues in this 20-point plan. There is justifiable fear that the 20 points may simply become this century’s  38th parallel, the endless ceasefire with no actual peace agreement. But all that is for next week or next month. Right now, it is more than enough for the hostages to come home and for aid to flow into Gaza.