Everything that has been happening since U.S. President Donald Trump’s entrance into the White House in the context of the future of the Gaza Strip and the Israeli hostages has been widely discussed in Israel, in Arab countries and around the world. Yet it seems that the understanding of what I call the “Trump spirit” has not yet penetrated sufficiently into the discourse, and, perhaps, the only one who does understand it is King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Even before Trump began his second go-round as president, he declared that the Israeli hostages must be immediately released from Gaza and promised hell if they were not. But public pressure in Israel, along with fear for the hostages, did not allow for a fundamental change in the basic conditions that were set—namely, a “trickle” of hostages in exchange for Israeli concessions that offset a significant part of the combat achievements of the Israel Defense Forces.

The opportunity to leverage the “Trump spirit” has grown in recent days, and it seems that Israel is still in awe of the enormous credit it has received from the new/old American president. With the extensive backing of the United States and the changed situation in…