The two facets of the Gaza Arabic for reconstruction plan

Gathered as part of an extraordinary summit in Cairo, the Arab countries adopted a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza on March 4. The plan supposed to be made in five years should cost around $ 53 billion. The plan in question was concocted two weeks earlier by five Arab countries gathered in mini-summits in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar).

The most important point in this plan consists in the rejection of any constrained displacement of the Palestinians of Gaza, which suggested the observers that the plan is a replica to the plan of Trump aimed at emptying the Gaza band of its inhabitants to build a new riviera.

Another point, no less important recalls the attachment of Arab countries to the solution of the two states as the cornerstone of the peace process in the region of the Middle East. However, this last point is quoted as a medium term perspective without specific political agenda.

This facet of the Arab reconstruction plan of Gaza could suggest a realistic proposal with regard to the balance of power in the region and the fatal perspective of a massive expulsion of the Palestinians of Gaza and perhaps also of the West Bank which means the burial of the Palestinian national cause. The media in the pay of the reactionary petroomonarchies of the Gulf insisted on this aspect attempt to pass the plan for a buoy of rescue of the Palestinian people.

The back of the medal

The reality is quite different. The back of the medal raises the worst for the national cause of the Palestinian people. Trump’s plan to empty the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants and the warning signs of a massive expulsion of several hundred thousand Palestinians of West Bank have had a traumatic effect on the Egyptian and Jordanian regimes which in no case can bear the destabilizing consequences of such, exodus on their territory.

It is therefore for the beautiful eyes of the Palestinians that the Arab regimes hastened to adopt an alternative plan which provides for a reconstruction of Gaza while keeping in place its population. But to make a good measure and coax Trump and Netanyahu, the Arab countries have conditioned their reconstruction plan by putting the touch of Hamas.

The Arab Plan provides for the administration of the Gaza Strip by an authority made up of technocratic and apolitical personalities for six less while waiting to prepare for the return of the Palestinian authority of Mahmoud Abbbas.

Egypt and Jordan have been designated to train the future police who should maintain order in the enclave. In summary, the Arab plan should peacefully achieve what the Israeli army has failed to do at the end of a devastating war of 15 less.

A plan deemed “imperfect” and “exceeded”

But obviously, the Arab countries have not done enough in the eyes of the Israeli government. A few hours after the announcement of the Arabic plan, the spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oren Marmorstein, estimated on X that the Egyptian plan “Do not take into account the realities of the situation”. The plan, he said, remains “Anchored from outdated perspectives”.

The government of Benyamin Netanyahu, notably rejects the prospect of a return of the Palestinian authority in the Gaza Strip insofar as it suggests that the creation of a Palestinian State is still relevant, which he does not want to hear about.

The Arab plan was also rejected by the White House. Tuesday, the spokesperson for the National Security Council, Brian Hughes, described the Egyptian proposal for impracticable, considering the Gaza Strip “Uninhabitable”. “President Trump remains faithful to his vision of rebuilding Gaza without Hamas”he added.

Subsequently, Trump’s special envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, described the Arab proposition as “first step in good faith” with “many convincing characteristics”. A few hours later, however, the spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, returned to the charge by qualifying the “inadequate” proposal.

How can we explain that such a minimalist plan can be rejected by the Israeli government and the Trump administration? The reason is in the lag between the position of the Arab regimes and the geopolitical realities that they should face. Instead of drawing the plans on the comet and talking about reconstruction, the Arab countries would have first imposed respect by the State of Israel of the ceasefire plan entered into force on January 19 and whose second stage, which was to begin 42 days after the entry into force of the plan, was frozen by the Israeli government under fallacious pretexts.

Indeed, from the confession of the Israeli media themselves, everything indicates that the Israeli government, under the pressure of its far-right wing and grayed by the unconditional support of the Trump administration, no longer wants to hear about a final cease-fire followed by the withdrawal of its troops from the Gaza Strip.

At most, the Israeli government seeks to extend the first stage of the ceasefire to release the maximum of Israeli prisoners to have their hands free in order to resume war and this time if possible until the massive expulsion of the Palestinians of the enclave at the cost of ethnic cleaning openly assumed by Israeli ministers.

The offset of rabes regimes in relation to reality

The Arab regimes which adopted the Gaza reconstruction plan made as if the main objective of the Israeli government was the capitulation of Hamas and not the capitulation of the very short Palestinian people which is ordered to abandon their land if it is due to its survival. Hostage of its Jewish supremacist wing, the Netanyahu government seeks to use what it believes to be a new favorable geopolitical context to realize the old Zionist dream of the great Israel which does not tolerate Palestinians within it as has already implicitly announced the law on the Jewish character of the State of Israel.

The only thing that remains in Arab countries to save their face and especially the stability of their regimes is to count on the money of the Gulf petroomonarchies in order to coax the Trump administration and influence the intransigent position of the Israeli government. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have promised to invest more than $ 1,000 billion in the United States. Will this gesture be enough?

Beyond the Arab investments required and expected by Trump, the most important political question which risks drawing the geopolitical contours of the region in the coming years relates to the contradictions which could compromise the disturbing convergence of interests which appears every day more between the colonialist and expansionist state of Israel and the Arab reactionary regimes which indicates that they are ready to bury the Palestinian cause still for fear of sacrificing their stability.