Lapid took the initiative, but did not present a new policy towards Gaza - Walla! news

2021-09-12T18:15:06.103Z

The foreign minister's speech included a rather eclectic and immature plan, which was not approved by any government forum. Lapid decided to present things at the current time so that the discussion will focus on a political solution that may prevent an escalation that will lead to another operation in the Gaza Strip. In the absence of a strategic decision, the government seems at a loss as to Gaza

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Lapid took the initiative, but did not present a new policy towards Gaza

The foreign minister's speech included a rather eclectic and immature plan, which was not approved by any government forum.

Lapid decided to present things at the current time so that the discussion will focus on a political solution that may prevent an escalation that will lead to another operation in the Gaza Strip.

In the absence of a strategic decision, the government seems at a loss as to Gaza

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"What do we want to do with Gaza?"

Lapid in his speech, today (Photo: Walla !, Ronen Topelberg)

In 2014, at the end of Operation Resilient Cliff, then-Justice Minister Tzipi Livni advanced a move to pass a UN Security Council resolution that included the reconstruction of Gaza, in exchange for preventing Hamas armaments and returning the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip. thing. the initiative of the people was unacceptable then the United States and European powers, and even emerged the majority of such a decision in the security Council. but shuffling of Netanyahu and the refusal of Abbas thwarted the move.

2018, when Lieberman was minister of defense, is also where program Gaza Gaza. He called it "rehabilitation in exchange for demilitarization." The principles were very similar to those in Lapid's plan. The plan, and also because Hamas is at the end of the day an organization with a broad support base in Gaza, those who do not support it - Hamas violently suppresses.

On May 30, 2021, after Operation Guardian of the Walls, Benjamin Netanyahu met with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel and discussed with him the promotion of the series in Gaza.

Netanyahu's proposal included - rehabilitation in order to prevent the intensification and return of the soldiers' bodies - the same elements that appear in Lapid.

When the new government was formed, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz took responsibility for the Gaza portfolio.

His formula, too, was "prosperity for Gaza in exchange for security stability and the return of soldiers."

He has spoken on the issue countless times in the last three months and he even promotes the issue against Egypt and Qatar.

Lapid believes that Israel should mobilize the international community to rehabilitate the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip (Photo: Reuters, Majdi Fathi)

A significant positive element in Lapid's speech was his desire to initiate and not remain in the policy of sit and do, which was so prominent during Netanyahu's era. Here is perhaps the significant innovation in his remarks. Lapid believes that Israel needs to actively mobilize the international community to rehabilitate the water, electricity and transportation infrastructure in Gaza in order to create a loss-making price for the population and Hamas. But on his initiative, Lapid put on conditions that sterilize it from its contents - chief among them the return of the soldiers' bodies. More and more government officials are realizing that this condition does not serve the Israeli interest.

Lapid said in his speech that he wanted to work with the Palestinian Authority, strengthen it, return it to control the crossings in the Gaza Strip and even negotiate with it when the conditions are right.

Although the plan is not yet fully baked, Lapid decided to put it on the table now and in a public speech against the background of his feeling that the shuffling with Gaza and the lack of discussion on political solutions could put Israel back on the path of escalation with the Gaza Strip.

A senior State Department official said Lapid "did not try to reinvent the wheel but to put the wheel on the table."

The alternative to this, Lapid fears, is to reach another military operation in Gaza, which will also not lead to a different result from that of all its predecessors.

They have not yet held a strategic policy debate on Gaza.

Bennett, Lapid and Gantz, this month (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Danny Shem Tov)

Lapid's speech joins a media cacophony on the Gaza issue in recent days, which mainly indicates that the government is quite at a loss in the face of the situation in the Gaza Strip.

The Political-Security Cabinet has held two operative discussions on Gaza since the formation of the new government, but not a strategic policy discussion.

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