Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Several decades ago, when I was with my UNICEF team in Rafah in the southern end of the Gaza Strip, we met Aisha, a teenage student at one of the local schools. Intelligent, articulate and confident, she was typical of thousands of other youths in the West Bank and Gaza who participated in an immensely popular school project to work side-by-side with municipal officials to improve their communities. Sitting in front of a wall painting of Mickey Mouse, there was something clearly out of place. Even...