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Egypt's peace plan for Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while incomplete, offers advantages over the U.S. plan, raising hope for progress.
Peace advocates, policymakers
Insights on the potential impact of involving Palestinian experts in governance and the significance of addressing security concerns in peace negotiations.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, Lidsbo again.
So today we are going to talk about the peace plan
that has been put forth by Egypt.
And we're going to compare that to the U.S. plan
and just kind of run through them
because questions have come in
and the basis of the question is,
is the Egyptian plan better?
It has some key advantages, but it also has one piece that's just unaddressed.
So we will go through it.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Egypt has put forth a plan dealing with the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Okay, as a recap, the U.S. rough sketch is that Hamas has to be combat-ineffective to
the point that it can't oppose the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Authority asserts
control and governance over Gaza.
And then a multinational coalition of the willing that will stand between the two sides
and prevent further fighting. Rough sketch of the plan. The Egyptian plan calls for a phased return
of captives and then both Gaza and the West Bank are to be administered by, quote, Palestinian
experts, meaning something new, not a faction currently in existence. That's a
huge advantage because the Palestinian Authority has lukewarm support. So that
is a big advantage. The other thing is because there isn't bad blood between
this new entity and Hamas, Hamas doesn't have to be combat ineffective. They just
have to agree to it. It was a safe assumption that Hamas leadership would
not be cool with the Palestinian Authority coming in. This is something
else. So there's a little bit of hope there. It has one more key advantage,
but we'll talk about the thing that's missing. There's no mention of the
security concerns. The force to stand between the two sides. Now that may just
be something they're like, yeah, well we'll deal with that later. Let's get an
agreement in place first. Which, I mean, yeah, that tracks, that makes sense. But
without that, I don't know how it's going to be successful. So, even if the
plan has key advantages, that still has to be addressed at some point. The other
key advantage that the Egyptian plan has over the US plan is that it's not a US
plan. It's an Egyptian plan. That in and of itself is a benefit. You have to
remember the US doesn't have a great track record, so it may be better
received if it's an Egyptian plan. Now the reporting says that the rough sketch,
and I'm sure there are more details than what we know, but that the rough sketch
was presented to both sides and neither one of them were enthusiastic about it
but neither of them were like yeah no we're not doing that. So that's a
starting point. We'll have to wait and see what more information comes out
about it and how it develops, but it's hopeful.
It's hopeful.
They have one thing that they have to work out in some way, but they overcame a major
drawback to the U.S. plan, so I wouldn't count it out simply because it's not the U.S. plan.
In some ways, it's better.
We would definitely have to wonder who the Palestinian experts would be and how they
would be picked.
I mean, that's a big question there.
There's a lot of things that are up in the air because if it's the US coming in and picking
a bunch of Palestinians who the US likes, then yeah, that's not going to work because
they're not going to have support.
If it's something done by consensus of Palestinian leaders or maybe even an election, I don't
know how they would do that given the current situation.
I mean, that's something else, but there's an open-ended question there.
It's not a bad starting point, and given the fact that neither side just outright rejected
it, I mean, that's a good sign.
So, I don't know that it's better because it seems incomplete, but the parts that are
complete seem more doable.
But until some of the blanks get filled in, we won't really know.
I wouldn't I wouldn't write this one off yet. Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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