The Palestinian Authority ( PA ), an Arab peace plan for Gaza, is only allowed to remain in the shadow of the Strip’s rulers for six months, “in order to enable the PA to fully return to the Gaza Strip.” A” Gaza Administration Committee is being established in the interim” and will be” composed of technocrats and non-factional figures… to manage the affairs” of the strip during the” transitional phase.”
As Sisi welcomed Muslim leaders in Cairo for the “emergency summit” of the Arab League, which took place on Tuesday, the company of Egyptian leader Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi unveiled the program in 91 webpages divided into” the political framework” and “technical information.”
The non-factional time committee to govern Gaza for a six-month intermediate time was the heart of the plan, even though it was hidden in the language. It was so crucial that Royal regular Asharq Al-Awsat’s headline highlighted the committee’s “non-factional” nature.
The program was dissociated from fact and lacking in information, though.
In the near future, the program directed the “international group to support the attempts of Egypt, Qatar, and the US in consolidating the peace deal in Gaza, supporting the latest quiet, and releasing captives and detainees.”
Cairo’s plea for a” next phase,” which entails” a permanent end to the fighting in Gaza and the restoration of the war-ravaged enclave,” must be sustained while Hamas is still in power.
The Wall Street Journal stated in its article:” If Hamas continues to exist in Gaza, Israel isn’t willing to end the conflict, and Gulf Arab state like the United Arab Emirates aren’t willing to fund its restoration.” So, the Egyptian strategy has failed.
It is highly improbable that the Arab militia will give up control of the strip if the conflict breaks out and Hamas is permitted to remain in Gaza.
Another issue is present in the Egyptian program, which calls for a two-state answer. It postpones disarming Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and various armies until after a Arab state is established. Such a plan is difficult in and of itself.
Since 1993, all two-state peace plans have been built on the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and eventually the PA, who have seized control and delivered on their security commitments to Israel.
All of these plans fell apart because, in spite of the PLO’s efforts to negotiate and obtain area concessions from Israel, Hamas not gained control. In the 1990s and after the Second Intifada broke out, Hamas launched a suicide bombing campaign that tore through Jewish community and security.
The later Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was the main proponent of the two-state option, wanted to have a conversation with Hamas with former US peace minister Dennis Ross. In 1948, the Irgun army received hands on a ship called Altalena. When the Irgun refused to fold and join the young army, the newly formed Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) sank the ship, monopolizing the use of power in the hands of the State of Israel.
In an interview with his best aide Yasser Abd-Rabbu last month, Arafat said in an earlier interview that he used its violence to utilize his demands on Israel.
Israel attempted a second bid for control of the cabinet under Arafat’s leadership, Mahmoud Abbas, but the current PA leader erred as unwilling or unable to impose itself. With Israel losing belief in entrusting its safety to any Arab party, October 7 was the nail in the coffin of the two-state option.
None of the obstacles to peace have previously been overcome by the Arab League in Cairo, which was supported by the Muslim League at its conference. It opens a window for a temporary, non-partisan Arab system to rule Gaza, and even then, it does not train Hamas to subdue while promising the same old, corrupt and incompetent Pato to retake the band.
The Arab League has been the subject of a lot of jokes among the majority of Arabs since its establishment in 1945. The firm has acted as a means for the majority of Arab governments to wash their hands of issues ( in particular the Palestinian one ), taking a few photo ops, and feeling good about having a schedule while convincing themselves that the other side, primarily Israel, was too terrible to grasp the extended Muslim hands for peace.
Similar things happened with the Beirut peace initiative in 2002, and similar things seem to have happened with the Egyptian Gaza plan. Most Arabs have learned from experience that shared Muslim action is just lip service unless Egyptian governments act unilaterally in the name of their own national interests.