On Palestinian statehood, it is utterly silent. The committee running Gaza answers upward to an external board, never downward to the people of Gaza. Swap an elected government, however compromised, for a committee of appointed managers answering to a foreign board and Gaza doesn’t really get depoliticized leadership. The deal does not postpone Palestinian statehood; it dismantles the very mechanism by which statehood could ever be demanded. Call the arrangement by many names, but do not call it a step toward a Palestinian state.