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Politics : View from the Center and Left Middle East Annex
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Is there a surer recipe for discontent, followed by violence?

.....The phrase “the day after” is much used in Gaza, but it remains an abstraction. “Everyone has a plan,” Fayyad told me. “But none of them speak to our needs.” The most visible plans are those devised by the same international custodians who have engineered postwar order elsewhere in the Middle East. Last month, a leaked “Gaza Riviera” postwar plan circulated within the Trump Administration. It proposes placing Gaza under U.S. control, recasting displacement as development, and suggesting a temporary relocation for much of its population. The Strip’s coastline and interior would be remade into “modern and AI-powered smart planned cities.”

The peace plan, the most recent proposed trusteeship structure under Trump and Blair, follows the same logic—Palestinian statehood deferred, Israel’s security rights preserved in a Gaza turned into an international project. The Palestinians being floated to join efforts to administer Gaza seem selected primarily for their palatability to foreign governments. “None has a mandate,” Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and a former legal adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said. “Their qualification is access to foreign capital.” Governance, she added, “is being rebuilt around external....

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