🇵🇸A Gaza Plan that Sidelines the Palestinian State – New Eastern Outlook
🇵🇸A Gaza Plan that Sidelines the Palestinian State
A blueprint for managing occupation, not achieving peace
✍️Author: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Research analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs
➡️The US-backed Gaza plan, while endorsed by the UN, functions less as a peace initiative and more as an occupation management framework that systematically undermines Palestinian statehood prospects. The agreement preserves Israeli military dominance while offering Palestinians only managed quiet under continued control.
➡️The proposed International Stabilization Force operates under Israeli operational authority rather than independent UN mandate, focusing exclusively on disarming Hamas while allowing Israel unrestricted military freedom. This creates a fundamentally asymmetric arrangement where Palestinians surrender resistance capacity without gaining political leverage.
➡️Arab world acceptance, particularly Saudi Arabia’s endorsement despite rhetoric supporting Palestinian statehood, reflects geopolitical pragmatism rather than confidence in the plan. Riyadh’s priority remains securing major non-NATO ally status and advanced weapons systems from Washington, requiring normalization with Israel despite the plan’s failure to provide a credible path to sovereignty.
🟦The arrangement demonstrates how regional powers have recalibrated priorities from Palestinian self-determination toward national security bargains with the US, leaving Palestinians without meaningful political prospects despite nominal ceasefire arrangements.
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