A Changing of the Guard at Rafah

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has announced that he would resign and support the formation of a national unity government if Hamas and Fatah successfully reached a reconciliation agreement. And it appears as though they did just that on Tuesday. But as remarkable an agreement as this may at first seem, it is, in truth, only nominally important: Far more interesting than the reconciliation itself are the agreement's provisions over the Rafah crossing, an issue that has much broader economic and political implications for the region....