WhatsappToday’s emergency Arab summit on the future of Gaza was meant to produce an alternative plan to Trump’s vision of a Gaza without Gazans. Some of the points of agreement should be very worrying to Israel as well as the Trump administration.
The Arab summit has produced a reconstruction plan for Gaza similar to the Egyptian proposal floated last week. According to Qatari Al-Arabi the reconstruction plan includes $53 billion for rebuilding the Gaza Strip. A committee will take over the Gaza Strip for six months and then reinstate the Palestinian Authority. Most worrisome is the invitation for the UN to send their own international force into Gaza.
Egyptian President al-Sisi at the Arab Summit in Cairo: “Our region faces challenges that threaten stability. Egypt opposes the expulsion of Palestinians and supports their right to remain on their land. Egypt supports the continuation of the ceasefire and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.”
Hamas has wasted no time in rejecting the above plan. Sami Abu Zuhri a senior Hamas official, dismissed the Arab Summit’s proposed Gaza reconstruction plan, stating: “We will not trade our weapons for reconstruction or the entry of aid.”
Israel is currently building up its forces around the Gaza Strip in anticipation of a full assault to finish Hamas off for once and for all. The Arab plan never had a chance to take off, but it could be a set up for something else. After Israel, backed by America wipes out Hamas, Islamic Jihad and sends most of the populace if not all packing, it will be the Arab countries headed by Egypt and backed by the UN that will ultimately attack back.
Israel will not be allowed to simply expel 1.5 million Jihadists who are Hamas supporters from Gaza. The Arab summit appears more about the Arab world uniting around a single position as irrational as that position is. With the clock ticking on the lead up to Israel’s reoccupation of Gaza and crushing defeat of the Qatari and Turkey backed Hamas, the world is about to get far more chaotic than it already is.
