Opinion Make Gaza a regional problem Israel today

This repeats itself cyclically: after the enthusiasm of the first blow comes reality, and the short and elegant "six days" turns into a tiring war of attrition, which has no shining aura and no real purpose.

The slogans of "we will show them" or "we will reverse the deterrence" sound good, but they are rather hollow.

Even in the current round it becomes clear again that Israel is the side that has much more to lose in the range between peace, vacations, money and of course life itself.

That's how it always is.

The rich and the seven have much more to lose than the poor and the one who has less.

If so, this is another combat event that repeats the patterns of previous "rounds", and despite this, there is almost no discussion in the broader context regarding the strategic alternatives that Israel has vis-à-vis the Strip.

There is an obvious embarrassment based on the fact that the system of rounds is the least bad in reality where the other alternative is the overthrow of Hamas rule and a full occupation of the Gaza Strip, which could lead Israel to renew control over the Palestinians.

However, in the middle between the two strategic alternatives lies the third way based neither on the idea of ​​"managing" the conflict (rounds) nor on the idea of ​​"solving" the problem (occupation), but rather on an attempt at a broad "order" that strives to change the socio-economic climate in the Gaza Strip , through a gradual and controlled lifting of the Israeli "siege" on the Strip, which will lead to economic development and an increase in the standard of living of the Palestinian residents.

Such a change requires Israel to redefine the Gaza Strip not only as an Israeli problem, but as a regional matter in order to mobilize the financial and political capital resources of the Arab world in order to create a new orderly reality in the Strip.

If in past years ideas were raised regarding the possibility of "internationalizing" the Strip, then at the present time it is appropriate to consider a course of "Azurization" of the Strip for two main reasons, both of which relate to the emergence of the new order in the Middle East, at the heart of which are the "Abraham Accords".

The first reason concerns the fact that the unstable reality in the Strip, driven by the ideological terrorist elements, harms the interest of the partnership in the new regional order based on the idea of ​​stability and economic prosperity;

And the second is that the benefits of the "Abraham Agreements" can be leveraged for the course of the reconstruction and development of the Gaza Strip by raising funds from the Gulf.

Israel holds in its hands a strategic diamond in the form of the "Abraham Accords" and normalization processes in the Middle East, but it is a diamond that mainly serves Israel's purposes in relation to Iran.

Much less thought is put into how the new reality in the Middle East can be turned into a lever to also deal with the chronic instability that characterizes the Palestinian arena in both its parts, including that in the Gaza Strip, under the current conditions of the inability to reach a political solution.

This model, which combines an economic move with external Arab leverage, is not completely foreign to Israel.

It has been recognized in recent years against the background of Qatar's involvement in what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the payment of the salaries of the Palestinian officials there.

The impression is that this is the place and the time to expand and perfect the Qatari model through the development of a new concept that will introduce the Strip into the "new Middle East" through a multi-regional strategic move of economic "ordering", which involves a massive mobilization of resources at the same time as the release of the "siege" ring that Israel imposes on the strip

Although this reality will not change the skin of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip.

Nor will it fundamentally change the political reality in the Gaza Strip.

But it has a clear potential to gradually produce a change in the economic and social climate in a way that will reduce the degree of zeal of the Palestinian organizations to destabilize, and perhaps also oblige them to redefine their concept of resistance to Israel from violent and armed resistance to resistance based on the very idea of ​​standing firm and turning the Strip into a semi -Country.

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