When President Trump said last month he wanted Move the two million residents of Gaza from the band in Egypt and Jordan and transform the territory into a “riviera” by the sea for tourism, the Arab leaders rejected the idea And rushed to present their own big plan.
At an emergency Arab summit in Cairo on Tuesday, they expose their vision: Rebuild Gaza without forcing the Palestinians who live there. The Touche du Hamas, the armed group which currently controls Gaza, and appoints a committee of qualified bureaucrats to initially direct the strip before handing over to the Palestinian government internationally recognized in the West Bank. Then bring together the territory with the West Bank as a Palestinian State – a long -standing dream of the Palestinians and many Arabs through the Middle East.
But since the plan leaves several central questions still unanswered, and Israel remains in the dead end of Hamas on key issues, the post-war future of Gaza does not seem closer to a resolution.
On the one hand, the declaration signed by the Arab countries on Tuesday evening did not say directly if or how to disarm the Hamas. Although Israel and the Trump administration say that the dismantling of the group’s armed wing is non -negotiable due to the threat it poses for Israel, it is a break for Hamas.
The farther of the document is an oblique reference to the security of Gaza managed by a single armed force and a single legitimate authority. Elsewhere, he calls internationally recognized Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza alongside the West Bank in the future, which implies that it would be the authority in charge of security, not Hamas.
This does not mean that the Arab countries want to see Hamas keep its weapons. Egypt, which welcomed the emergency summit and the Gaza borders in the south, has serious national security problems about Hamas. Other Arab countries agree.
However, even if they were unified about the need to move Hamas, no one seems to have a plan to know how to do it or who would apply it. The group, which welcomed the statement on Tuesday, expressed any opening to abandon its weapons.
Another fundamental impasse focuses on the question of the Palestinian state. Less from the list of roads than the list of wishes, calls from Arab countries to establish a Palestinian state are almost certain to pass the head down in Israeli objections.
The hard government of Israel, as well as a large part of the population, is opposed to granting the Palestinians their own country. Although the United States has not explicitly abandoned its support for several decades to a two-state solution to the conflict, the Trump administration seems to be moving into a locking stage with Israel on many questions, which raises questions about its commitment to the Palestinian state.
Arab leaders say that transforming the notion “Gaza Riviera” of Trump in reality would mean destroying any perspective of a Palestinian state. But Israel kissed him, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israel Say on x Tuesday evening That the idea of ​​Mr. Trump was “an opportunity for the Gazans to have free choice according to their free will. It should be encouraged!
The Arabic plan presented on Tuesday is the most solid when it comes to rebuilding Gaza, a process which, according to the document, could last until 2030 and cost $ 53 billion. He is planning a conference next month to mobilize international funding and investments for the plan, but it is not clear that will reduce money.
The rich Arab States of the Gulf are often called upon to pay reconstruction and development in the Arab world. The Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdeatty, also suggested that Europe could intervene; And António Costa, the president of the European Council, who brings together the leaders of the European Union, said in a speech at the Tuesday summit that the block “was ready to provide concrete support”.
However, the Gulf monarchies which should probably pay a large part of the bill, notably Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are wary to pass so much to rebuild Gaza to review the territory destroyed if the war returns.
Only two heads of state of the Gulf attended the summit of Cairo – the leaders of Bahrain and Qatar – undervalifying the strong and unified of Egypt to Egypt and raised questions about the support of the Gulf countries in terms of Gulf.
