The BBC is reporting more "details" about the "plan" and
as suspected it never is about full Israeli withdrawal. The plan has "further" withdrawals to 40% of the territory and then 15% with a determination to be made at some foggy point in the future when apparently the US and Israel decide the territory would remain with IDF troops " until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat". An obvious open ended ability to never leave.
Also of note is that nowhere in the "plan" is there any discussion about keeping the Israeli squatters out of Gaza. We know that it is an absolute push by people like Smotrich and Ben Gvir to have the squatters flood into Gaza. When we see what they have done in the West Bank, a much bigger area than Gaza, it is easy to see that in very short time the entirety of Gaza would be filled with the squatters and the illegal settlements would be protected by the IDF and violence by the squatters against the Palestinians would be ignored, excused and even abetted the way it is now in the West Bank.
While this lull in the bombing, return of hostages, aid trucks returning are all good things there are apparently no actual stated firm end goals for the Palestinians with clearly laid out timelines for negotiations. After the hostages are released it's "anything goes" and Netanyahu can simply disagree with any further proposals, a known tactic, and then just resume military operations and encroachment.
So no two state goal in this "plan". Only the stated decree that Crumb The 1st, Tony Blair (basically the Brits coming back in) and Netanyahu will be the bosses of what goes on for any and all further actions including clean-up, rebuilding, where people can live, what they can have, what price the Palestinians will pay for it all (I smell the IMF on the horizon) etc. In other words the Palestinians are told they can stay or go, return later if they wish but ultimately if they want something different than the 3 bosses want it won't happen.
This is why I doubt very much that this "plan" was ever seriously about anything more than getting the hostages out. Once that happens it's all a vague crap-shoot of a plan with even less in the way of teeth than has come before in the last nearly 70 years. The UN could make progress on this if the US were sidelined from it's veto but that won't happen. The western nations that basically anointed themselves over the decades as the ones to be in charge of "negotiations" should all be shown the door given their dishonest and mealy mouthed conduct over the many years.
Because there will not be a change at the UN this will end up being more jockeying by the powerful parties looking out for their own interests, control and power and will not be about correcting the mistakes of the last over 100 years in Palestine. It would be nice if it were so but the construct of this "plan" and the long track record of the Western nations in this region provide no basis for any hope or confidence.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqx7ygq41o
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