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Doyle McManus: Biden and Blinken are planning for 'the day after' war in Gaza ends. Make that years after

President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the conflict between Israel and Gaza and the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.

Last week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken headed for the Middle East to try to keep Israel's war in Gaza from spinning out of control, and to begin talks on what diplomats call "the day after" — what happens after the shooting stops.

Who will govern a shattered Gaza? Who will feed and house its refugees?

Who will police its ravaged streets?

And perhaps improbably, can the war, however brutal its toll, be turned into an opening for a wider peace?

"When this crisis is over,

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