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2025-03-04 Africa North
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Egypt’s alternative to Trump plan sidelines Hamas, leaves key questions unanswered
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Lots of Handwavium… [IsraelTimes] Draft proposal mum on how to disarm the terror group, contains no financial pledges to rebuild Gaza, and doesn’t give central role to PA, which seeks to lead Strip’s reconstruction
Egypt has drawn up a plan for Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
that would sideline Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
and replace it with interim bodies controlled by Arab, Moslem and Western states, according to a draft seen by Rooters, as Arab countries scramble to counter US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s proposal to take over the devastated Strip and oust its residents.
Egypt’s vision, which is due to be presented at an Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
summit on Tuesday, does not specify whether the proposal would be implemented before or after any permanent deal to end the war in Gaza.
The proposal also does not detail a central role for the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority, which has sought to lead Gaza’s reconstruction. Nor does the draft proposal say how Hamas would be pushed aside, how the Strip would be rebuilt, or who would pay to rebuild it.
A preamble outlining the objectives of Egypt’s plan said there would be "no major international funding for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Gaza if Hamas remains the dominant and armed political element on the ground controlling local governance."
Egypt, Jordan and Gulf Arab states have for almost a month been scrambling to formulate a diplomatic offensive to counter Trump’s plan, which has sparked outrage in Arab and Moslem countries. A number of ideas have been proposed, with Egypt’s considered the frontrunner.
The plan firmly rejects the US proposal for mass displacement of Paleostinians from Gaza, which Arab states, such as Egypt and Jordan, see as a security threat.
The draft proposal was shared with Rooters by an official involved in Gaza negotiations who wished to remain anonymous because the draft has not yet been made public. Rooters was unable to determine whether Arab leaders would support the draft proposal.
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
told Rooters that the group knows of no such proposal by Egypt.
"The day after in Gaza must only be decided by the Paleostinians," he said. "Hamas rejects any attempt to impose projects or any form of non-Paleostinian administration, or the presence of any foreign forces on the land of the Gaza Strip."
Egypt’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Nor did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, whose support for any plan is seen as vital to ensure that any reconstruction will not be undone.
The premier has applauded Trump’s plan to take over Gaza, announced at a joint presser of the two leaders in the White House early February.
Netanyahu had previously ruled out any post-war role in Gaza for Hamas or the PA, which Israel has long accused of inciting terrorism. Until Trump’s plan, however, he had failed to publicly enunciate who he would see govern the Strip after the war there.
STABILIZATION FORCE
Egypt’s proposal makes no mention of elections in Gaza, and does not say what would happen if Hamas refuses to disarm or step aside from politics.
Under the proposal, a Governance Assistance Mission would replace the Hamas-run government in Gaza for an unspecified interim period and would be responsible for humanitarian aid and for kick-starting reconstruction of the enclave, which has been devastated by the war.
The plan does not specify who would run the governance mission. It said it would "draw on the expertise of Paleostinians in Gaza and elsewhere to help Gaza recover as quickly as possible."
The proposal envisions an International Stabilization Force, drawn primarily from Arab states, taking over policing in the Strip from Hamas, with the eventual formation of a new local police force.
Both security and governance bodies would be "arranged, guided and supervised" by a steering board. The draft said the board would comprise representatives from Britannia, the United States, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and its member states, key Arab countries, and members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The steering board would coordinate with a Civil Society Advisory Board, consisting of academics, NGO leaders and other notable figures. States on the steering board could establish a fund to support the interim governing body and arrange donor conferences to seek contributions for a longer-term reconstruction and development plan for Gaza.
The proposal contains no specific pledges to finance Gaza’s reconstruction, which would cost over $53 billion, according to a United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
estimate last month. Two sources have told Rooters that Gulf and Arab states would need to commit at least $20 billion in the initial phase of reconstruction.
Oil- and gas-producing Gulf Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, and the United Arab Emirates, could be vital sources of funding from the region.
The three countries’ foreign ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment about Egypt’s plan, or to questions about their willingness to commit funds to rebuild Gaza.
RECONSTRUCTION BILL
Egypt has sought to establish an interim, independent committee of Paleostinian technocrats to help administer Gaza, as much of the international community maintains that the unpopular PA must undergo significant reforms before it can return to the Strip.
Speaking to The Times of Israel last month, a top aide to PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
said any committee should answer to Ramallah. Echoing the aide’s comments, a Paleostinian official told Rooters that, like the West Bank, Gaza falls under the PA’s jurisdiction and must be run by Paleostinians.
"We agreed with the Egyptians on a committee made of Paleostinian experts that will help the Paleostinian Authority in running the Gaza Strip for six months. The committee is made of Paleostinian experts and coordinates with the PA, and doesn’t answer to non-Paleostinian bodies," said the official, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Hamas has reportedly indicated that it would be willing to hand over the reins in Gaza to the PA after the war there ends.
The terror group ousted the PA from the Strip in a civil war in 2007. Supported by Iran, Hamas has built an extensive terror apparatus based around a vast network of tunnels, much of which Israel has destroyed in the current war in Gaza.
The war was sparked on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led gunnies stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
A January 19 ceasefire and hostage deal brought a temporary end to the fighting, but the agreement’s first phase expired on Saturday with little sign of progress toward the second phase. Egypt was one of the deal’s mediators.
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