Well Trump's Gaza ideas at least got the Arabs off their as$es a bit:
"An alternative to Donald Trump’s plan to turn the Gaza Strip into a US-owned “Riviera of the Middle East” is being prepared by
Egypt, under which Hamas would be formally excluded from governance and control of the territory’s reconstruction. The process would be handed over on an interim basis to the control of a social or community support committee. No member of Hamas would sit on the committee. But the future military status of Hamas within Gaza is unresolved, which is likely to be a barrier to Israeli endorsement of the plan.
Arab states – principally the United Arab Emirates and Qatar – are preparing to make financial offers to fund reconstruction, but on the basis that Palestinians are given the right to remain in
Gaza and are not forced to seek temporary or permanent refuge in Egypt or Jordan. Reconstruction would take three to five years, with 65% of the property in Gaza having been destroyed. European sources admit the issue of providing security guarantees to Israel for Gaza remains unresolved since no Arab country is willing to offer troops in the absence of Israel offering a clear political horizon to a Palestinian state.
An Arab summit is due to be held in Riyadh on 27 February at which an alternative to the Trump plan for Gaza is due to be discussed and parts of it revealed.
So far Saudi Arabia has not explicitly called for
Hamas to be excluded from the reconstruction process or governance of Gaza, but Anwar Gargash, a UAE senior diplomatic adviser, praised a recent call from Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary general of the Arab League, for Hamas to step down from the administration of Gaza as “appropriate and rational”.
Aboul Gheit said: “The interests of the Palestinian people must come before the interests of the movement [Hamas], especially in light of the calls to displace Palestinians from Gaza, and the resulting war that destroyed the Gaza Strip and tore apart its human and social fabric as a result of its decisions.”
He also told the World Governments Summit last week that Trump’s proposal to move the roughly 2 million Palestinians out of Gaza would push the region into a cycle of crises with a damaging effect on peace and stability. “It’s unacceptable for the Arab world, which has fought this idea for 100 years,” he said.
It is expected that the committee proposed in the Arab plan would include independent technocrats and representatives of civil society and unions, to ensure that no single faction dominates.
Even moderate Arab diplomats say the Trump plan is neither practical nor morally right, but one said: “We have to engage with it and if possible divert people away from it.” A second Arab source said: “A lot of it sounds far-fetched, such as converting Hamas tunnels into a metro network. The idea came out of the blue.”
The Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the West Bank, has not endorsed the committee plan, fearing it could presage a permanent division between the West Bank and Gaza through two separate administrative systems.
Jibril Rajoub, of Fatah, which dominates the PA, said the group refused to discuss the idea of the committee, describing it as “a prelude to consecrating division”, and he stressed adherence to what he called “the unity of the government and the regime”.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has not ruled out an alternative to the Trump plan but said: “Any plan that leaves Hamas in the Gaza Strip will be a problem, because Israel will not tolerate that,” and thus would be a return to square one."
Alternative to Trump plan would involve committee of technocrats but future military status of Hamas unresolved
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