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The Financial Times newspaper said that the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Israel and Israel are sworn enemies, but they agree on some things. Neither the Tel Aviv government nor the movement has any real interest in a “two-state solution,” nor does either of them want to stop the fighting in Gaza despite the destruction, as the writer claims.
However – Gideon Rachman says in his article in the newspaper – the fighting will stop at some point, and the next day the world faces a series of pressing questions: Who will rebuild the region, who will rule it, and how will it be supplied?
Although the administration of the US President joe biden Do not accept that Israel reoccupy Gaza stripThe relations between Israel andUnited nations It has collapsed and it is understandable that the UN would be wary of expanding its responsibilities in Gaza, the article adds.
In light of the lack of a better alternative, according to the writer, who adds that the United States is working to restore Palestinian Authoritywhich is “nominally” responsible for parts of the occupied West Bank, will return to the administration of Gaza, even though it is “weak and corrupt and has only a small amount of credibility, and that is what Israel and Hamas also agree on,” as he put it.
As for the money – Gideon Rachman says – I heard from senior officials in… European Union They say unequivocally that Europe will not pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, and at the same time it seems that US Congress He began to turn against all forms of foreign aid.
Long-term political agreement
So there may be no way to deal with the disaster in Gaza without reaching an agreement on a long-term political solution, such as a two-state solution.
But the conditions for a two-state solution today are much worse than they were in 1991, when there were less than 100,000 settlers in the West Bank compared to more than 500,000 today, and when the “peace camp” was thriving on both sides, instead of the Israeli advocates of dialogue talking about “ Wiping out Gaza, let alone the Palestinians after the martyrdom of more than 18,000 of them.
However, as the writer sees, the Israeli government has not developed any kind of new, long-term vision for the Israeli-Palestinian issue since the attack of last October 7, perhaps because of the focus on destroying Hamas, and perhaps because the government’s plan includes forcing the residents of Gaza to move to Egypt, and this is what the Biden administration and Egypt have repeatedly rejected.
The writer concluded that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Perhaps he hopes that new opportunities will open up when he returns Donald Trump To the White House if he wins the next presidential elections.
