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Is Trump's Gaza Plan Utopian?

(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - The international community keeps repeating the same empty slogans about the creation of a Palestinian state, without admitting that all the negotiations and signed agreements have never resulted in a viable and definitive peace. On the contrary, they have strengthened the refusal front and encouraged Islamist terrorism. The unbearable images of the three Israeli hostages who appeared horribly thin on Feb. 8 alongside Hamas terrorists clearly demonstrate the cruel face of the Palestinian organization. How then can we entrust power in Gaza to criminals, to a gang of murderers? The main thing is to ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to the Jewish state. At the moment, the Trump plan seems utopian and unrealizable for many reasons, but we should study it seriously because there are no other credible solutions. Until now, wars, terrorism, boycotts, sanctions, and diktats have achieved nothing; on the contrary, they have made the situation worse. Let us recall that the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem - by a historic decision of Donald Trump - had also provoked a general outcry, and since 2018 has been functioning perfectly. Its transfer from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has also erased the annex of the famous UN Resolution 181, which envisaged the internationalization of the Holy City. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
2025-02-11 00:00:00
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