The White House begins to stay small to make up the international isolation of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu. In the vacuum that returned to live for the second consecutive year in the UN General Assembly, where he spoke to unoccupied chairs already his delegation, the growing number of countries that recognize the Palestinian State is added. But the Israeli leader weighs more the haste of his partner, President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu’s fourth visit to Washington develops in the midst of the rumors of a possible agreement to end the conflict after almost two years of war, despite the visible discrepancies between both partners. In the UN, Netanyahu said he has to “finish the job” in Gaza, where more than 65,000 Palestinians have already died. He also rejected with forcefulness the solution of the two states.
The words of the Israeli contrasted with Trump’s, which, hours before his speech, said he could “have an agreement” and that “there will be peace.” Along the same lines, while shaking Netanyahu’s hand upon his arrival at the White House, when a journalist has asked him if he trusts that a high fire agreement can be reached, Trump has replied: “Yes, I have a lot of confidence.”
Even the Republican had assured Thursday that he would not let Netanyahu annexed the West Bank: “I will not allow Israel to be annexed with the West Bank. It is time for this to end.” Words dissipated the generalized fear that Washington gave green light to settlements as retaliation for the recognition of the Palestinian State.
Already in the US capital, Netanyahu met this Sunday with the special envoy of the US for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. The meeting occurred at the hotel where Israeli prime minister is housed and lasted about two hours. In it, as reveals the Times of IsraelWitkoff wanted to get Israeli prime minister to support the proposal for the end of the war, despite the resistance of the latter with regard to Hamas’s disarmament and the role of the Palestinian authority. Trump’s son -in -law, Jared Kushner, was also present in the conversations. Kushner, who owns a real estate society, on several occasions has talked about the value of Gaza’s land for being in the coastal line and how the place should be rebuilt after the war.
The plan
Israeli media collect that the meeting was fine and that Netanyahu is prone to show his support for the 21 points of the US president to end the war, establish a postwar government mechanism and return home the 48 hostages that are still retained by Hamas. In his speech before the UN, the Israeli prime minister was wrong with the number – it is not known whether intentionally or not – and spoke only of 20 hostages, those that are still believed to be in life. The deletion of the other 28 once again struck the anger of the relatives of the hostages.
Netanyahu’s support for the Plan, however, raises key issues on what role the Palestinian authority in the future of postwar gaza and the recognition of the Palestinian State, two red lines for Israel will have.
In his telematic speech in the Assembly, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian authority is “ready to assume” Gaza’s governance and promised that Hamas would have no role in the government. Abbas asked the Islamist group to give the weapons and said: “We don’t want an armed state.”
The name that sounds to assume the transition government is that of the former British prime minister, Tony Blair. As reported last Thursday American and British media, the Labor is the candidate who is considering the White House to lead a provisional international administration in the Palestinian territory practically destroyed after the two years of genocide.
According to these information, the background idea would be a gaza directed by a transition entity with the support of the UN and the Gulf States, before moving to the Palestinian control. This plan would have already been discussed with Arab leaders. Taking advantage of the high -level week in New York, the Trump administration met Tuesday with the leaders from eight Arab and Muslim countries where, he reported Politicothe US president presented his plan for the end of the war. At that meeting were the representatives of Qatar, Jordan, Türkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Although the United States wants to maintain the support of the Arab countries – especially that of Doha as a mediator with Hamas – Israel is pressing to limit the role of Qatar in the postwar Gaza, amid the deterioration of ties between both countries, according to some Israeli information. At the beginning of September, in an unprecedented gesture, Tel Aviv attacked the Arab country under the pretext of wanting to eliminate Hamas leaders who were there at that time.
Offensive about Gaza City
The meeting between Trump and Netanyahu takes place after the Israeli army launched its land offensive over city of Gaza, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, which add to the hundreds of thousands that are already overcrowded in camps in the center and south of the strip, where the most basic services are missing. Humanitarian organizations have warned of the dramatic situation in which the displaced people are and, above all, those that remain in Gaza City because they do not have the means to leave or where to go. Informs Francesca Cicardi.
In the city, which until before the beginning of the Israeli offensive welcomed more than one million people, some UN agencies and independent organizations, such as doctors without borders, have ceased to provide humanitarian assistance, due to the increase in Israeli attacks by land and air. Israeli troops are using helicopters and drones in their offensive, as well as explosive robots to detonate the buildings that remain standing in Gaza City.
While Netanyahu has made clear on many occasions that he has no intention of stopping the assault, the families of the Israeli hostages still keep some hope that Trump can convince him, since both the military and the experts consider that the kidnapped are in danger due to the progress of the forces in the heart of Gaza City.
The forum of the families of the hostages and the missing has issued a statement in which it shows its support to the president of the United States and ensures: “We have him to bring our loved ones back home and put an end to war.” However, until now the president has not stopped the Belicist plans of Netanyahu, which have aroused certain misgivings and rejection in Israel, where a majority of the population, according to the surveys, supports to stop the war to obtain the liberation of the hostages.
Source: www.eldiario.es
