One of the plans for the day after the war would see a temporary Israeli military civil administration of Gaza gradually hand the area over to a new Palestinian state.
Israel National News Jan 31, 2024, 8:42 AM (GMT+2)
Maariv reports that Israel is considering installing a temporary Israeli military government in Gaza that will be responsible for humanitarian needs.
In a later phase, an international coalition of Arab states that will include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, the UAE, and Bahrain will take over the Gaza Strip.
The coalition will be part of a regional normalization agreement and establish an entity to be known as the New Palestinian Authority, which will be comprised of people who are not connected to either Hamas or Fatah. In the next phase, the military government will be fully replaced by a Palestinian government.
The report states that throughout this period, as well as beyond it, Israel will maintain the right to conduct security operations in Gaza in the same way it did in the Palestinian Authority regions of Judea and Samaria.
The plan includes yet another phase, after the stabilization of the Gaza Strip and the establishment of the new government. In this phase, all Palestinian Authority establishments in Judea and Samaria will be reformed, with emphasis on removing incitement to terrorism in the educational system and deterring terrorism in the Palestinian population.
If all the phases are successfully completed within four years, Israel will agree to recognize a demilitarized Palestinian state within the territory of the Palestinian Authority.
The plan originated with a number of businessmen, including close associates of the Prime Minister, and has been presented to American officials.
The idea is being considered alongside a number of other possible plans for Israel’s relations with Gaza on the day after the war.
Maariv reports:
Have people in Israel lost their minds?
Great quote, Mr. Zorn. If Israel follows the lead of the democrat party here in USA. It might just work. Israel would control all of the electrical power, internet, water and food and housing coming into Gaza. Then, after 30 years, the people living in Gaza will be on the Israeli government dole and will no longer be able to feed and clothe themselves and like the sheeple in America who follow the plantation bosses because their brains will have atrophied to the point, they can’t think for themselves anymore. Regardless of their skin color or I.Q. level will vote for the party who meets all their needs. Problem solved.
@Felix
Anyway, I said the article is misrepresenting Bibi’s stated position. Nonetheless, I reserve the right to change my mind again next week or in an hour as new facts to come to my attention.
I, for one, don’t want to be caught in the quick-sand of the sunk-cost fallacy, which seems to be the biggest psychological or psycho-political (I just made that up, how do you like it?) obstacle we face.
“sunk-cost fallacy”
noun
“the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.”
I didn’t make this one up though it recently came to my attention in a short list of common fallacies that popped up on my FB page somebody had posted. It has a lot of “explanatory power” as me old history profs used to say. You can google it. eg, “the sunk-cost fallacy creeps into a lot of major financial decisions.”
And my support for the Otzma Yehudit/Religous Zionism ticket is not new. That’s been my consistent position all along.
Bibi is extremely competent, though and competence matters a lot. It’s a tricky situation. I disagree with his position against rebuilding Gush Katif and for allowing the Gazan Arabs to return after the war. Denazification is nonsense in this context. But, that’s unimportant right now. The war must be won and Bibi is Israel’s Churchill.
Seb
Just a week ago you were 100 per cent for Netanyahu and I replied no defend Netanyahu against enemies but do so critically. Who is right now?
Anyway, the article is misleading. That’s Gantz, Gallant, and Eisenkot’s plan which they’ve had the temerity to present to the Americans as if they represent the government which they joined and which if they left would still have 64 mandates. Neither Bibi nor anyone else has agreed, in fact, they’ve expressed vociferous opposition to it. The body of the article itself suggests that – at the very end. To whit:
“The plan originated with a number of businessmen, including close associates of the Prime Minister, and has been presented to American officials. The idea is being considered alongside a number of other possible plans for Israel’s relations with Gaza on the day after the war.”
which is a very long way from the headline: “Israel’s plan [sic] for a military government in Gaza after the war.” It’s the seditious add-on left’s plan which they can only claim is being considered along with many other plans (such asking the moon rabbit for help, no doubt) and by people around the PM, not representing him.
There was another article I thought had a hilarious oxymoron in it if you excerpted it from the rest. It said “Gantz of the National Unity party sniped at Netanyahu…” 😀 Some unity. “My way or the highway”. And it’s not even his highway!
Well, who needs them. Is Bibi afraid that the anti-judicial reform traitors whose rebellion gave the enemy the courage to invade will go back to their old tricks if they aren’t in the government even if they didn’t earn the right to be there? Or is he afraid that without them as a smokescreen and fig leaf, the Biden regime will fully turn on israel?
I dunno, maybe he’s right. Israel really needs to accelerate the process of making everything she needs herself in time of war.
Hard to know what’s real here and what’s smoke and mirrors. Just have to hope for the best.
All I can say is Bibi is a very competent prime minister and diplomat who, like Trump, thinks outside the box and I don’t believe he’d suddenly do a 180 and turn into Bennett, which is what they are pushing him to do and which this article is propaganda in the interest of, trying to make news by falsely reporting it. However, nonetheless, knowing that they’d be part of his coalition, I would have voted for the Otzma Yehudit/Religious Zionism ticket in the last election and I stand by that.
I can’t believe Arutz Sheva would publish such a shameless piece of thinly veiled leftwing propaganda purporting to be news.
It contradicts everything Bibi has said clearly and publicly over and over.
Once again, I am reminded of his brilliant quip to these fools:
“I fight Hamas and you fight me; that’s the division of labor.” 😀