But the plan envisages a major role for foreign players - the US, plus European and Arab governments - in the creation of a “multinational task force” with responsibility for what’s euphemistically called “the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip”.
“Without serious regional planning and investment in Gaza,” they write, “a potential outcome that could materialize is lawlessness and a Palestinian political vacuum alongside the grim reality of famine, disease and death.”
For Palestinians, the plan has echoes of a fleeting Israeli effort, in the late 1970s, to promote non-political “Village Leagues” to run local affairs in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip (and thus reduce the influence of the Palestine Liberation Organisation).
The West Bank and Gaza may have been physically separate since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, but Palestinians regard both territories as integral parts of their national identity and will fiercely resist any attempt to sever that connection.
For weeks, the Biden administration has been insisting that there should be a role for the Palestinian Authority, in the teeth of opposition from Mr Netanyahu, who argues that the PA has disqualified itself through its failure to condemn Hamas’s 7 October attacks.
The widely reported bust up in Thursday night’s cabinet meeting, over the separate but related matter of when and how the Israeli military should examine the circumstances surrounding the 7 October attacks, was a powerful demonstration of the sharp divisions within Mr Netanyahu’s government.
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But the plan envisages a major role for foreign players - the US, plus European and Arab governments - in the creation of a “multinational task force” with responsibility for what’s euphemistically called “the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip”.
“Without serious regional planning and investment in Gaza,” they write, “a potential outcome that could materialize is lawlessness and a Palestinian political vacuum alongside the grim reality of famine, disease and death.”
For Palestinians, the plan has echoes of a fleeting Israeli effort, in the late 1970s, to promote non-political “Village Leagues” to run local affairs in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip (and thus reduce the influence of the Palestine Liberation Organisation).
The West Bank and Gaza may have been physically separate since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, but Palestinians regard both territories as integral parts of their national identity and will fiercely resist any attempt to sever that connection.
For weeks, the Biden administration has been insisting that there should be a role for the Palestinian Authority, in the teeth of opposition from Mr Netanyahu, who argues that the PA has disqualified itself through its failure to condemn Hamas’s 7 October attacks.
The widely reported bust up in Thursday night’s cabinet meeting, over the separate but related matter of when and how the Israeli military should examine the circumstances surrounding the 7 October attacks, was a powerful demonstration of the sharp divisions within Mr Netanyahu’s government.
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