In any case, the Arab brothers are finally seriously considering the future of the Gaza Palestinians that they have avoided so far-yes, but what can we do? Something positive comes out President Trumps plan To convert the completely destroyed Gaza Strip in a Rivièra by Israel after 7 October 2023. Gaza as Cannes and Nice Ineen was a lucrative idea of son -in -law Kushner from a year ago. Still something positive, but the plan is of course totally shameless. Both two million Palestinians got out and no longer back; The area is now just America, Trump decreed. As if it is the Gulf of Mexico. I don’t want to imagine how the Israeli army or international mercenaries would drive them into the border across Egypt. Trump concluded that American troops would waste their hands on it, still.
Have you Those images Given the disrupted Jordanian king Abdullah on 11 February in the White House with Trump next to him who sings the praise of his plan and himself? About the Gazans, who “will eventually live beautifully in a different place.” So that other place Egypt and Jordan; An impossible burden for the respective, authoritarian but also precarious regimes. Apart from the international law aspects, international law is so much a thing of the past. Egypt Sisi was expected in the White House on February 18, but decided to save itself a similar session.
I honestly expected that Trump would live up to his threat to suspend the American billion support to Jordan and Egypt if they did not cooperate, giving how he works with a blunt ax. But he seems to have given up his entire plan with regret, surprised by so much undisputed. “I’m not going to force. I’m going to lean back and praise it ”, he said in return for Fox News.
I have seen the suggestion that it was actually Trump’s intention to shock the Arab leaders from their lethargy and to move a future to design a future for the Gaza Strip. I don’t believe it; He is far too satisfied with his plan. But the Arabs went to work shocked. One circulates Egyptian three -phase proposal. First rearranging the population in handy blocks, repair water and electricity and drain the rubble, to make the area a bit livable again. Then a large international conference with reconstruction experts, aid organizations and large donors, because 20 billion dollars are needed. And finally, reconstruction, recovery of health care and education and a path to the two-state solution, the Palestinian state next to Israel that is still considered a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict outside of Israel. All this with a kind of alternative Palestinian administration – without Hamas, without Palestinian authority. The current minus-or-striking-the-fires between Israel and Hamas should work, which is highly uncertain.
I add another view: Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries tie normal relationships with Israel, and it becomes peace forever.
An Arabian top in Cairo must produce a complete plan on 4 March. But then the essential questions come. What does Israel want? Does it agree with an alternative Palestinian administration? Will it allow building materials to the Gaza Strip on a large scale? Doesn’t the rebuilt projects promise not to destroy it again in a subsequent conflict? Does it accept a path to a Palestinian state? Does it withdraw his army from the Gaza Strip, and who is going to maintain safety?
I count an Israeli no at least four times, and zero countries that are going to enforce four yes. And then I haven’t even talked about Hamas that always shows to be there, with weapons. Poor Gazans there in the rubble. The war is not over yet.
Carolien Roelants is a Middle East expert. She writes a column every other week.