“All these efforts are proceeding in parallel with the launch of a political track” towards the Palestinian status, it is read, an ambition to which Israeli leaders have opposed.
The summit also asked the Palestinian representation to join under the PLO, an umbrella group that is the dominant political force within the Palestinian authority, a movement that could put aside Islamist Hamas, which is not a member.
The Arab Plan was a direct response to which it floated by Trump, who caused the global outrage by suggesting that the United States “takes over” of Gaza and made it the “Riviera del Middle East”, while forcing its Palestinian inhabitants to move to Egypt or Jordan.
Hugh Lovatt, a member of the main policy of the Middle East and North Africa program in the European Board of Foreign Affairs, said the new plan was “much more realistic than what the Trump administration proposes in terms of being able to be operationalized.”
But Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian political analyst and former Minister of Autral Authority, was skeptical if he could pass realistically, pointing out the lack of details about financing and the political obstacles he would face.
“The only two players in Gaza, the only two games that have influence in Gaza are Israel and Hamas, and … their positions are not consistent with this plan,” he said.
“It makes no sense to wait for Israel to leave Trump’s plan and adopt the plan of the Arabs. There is no possibility.”
