US President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza is a first step but there are many crucial, unanswered questions, said international geopolitical analyst Demosthenes Dimopoulos.
It is obviously welcome, he said, if the plan puts an end to hostilities and begins negotiation and humanitarian aid. However, Mr Dimopoulos said, there is still much to be clarified and agreed and the road will be long without the successful outcome.
"It is welcomed by the rest of this plan or this negotiation framework presented by President Trump with the logic that if both sides agree and sit on the table to negotiate there will be a cessation of hostilities, providing humanitarian aid to people who have the most need to do so. Welcome move, ”he said.
The United States, Mr Dimopoulos noted, is the only country to currently have the opportunity and influence to force the Israeli prime minister and the government to end the war.
Of course, he noted, Mr Trump said that if there was no agreement and Hamas did not accept the proposal, Israel will then have the full support of the US to proceed.
"This is a problem that gives a lure if you want Netanyahu to somehow sabotage this process as it did in the past," Mr Dimopoulos said.
He described the Trump statement as excessive that it was a plan that would bring peace to the Middle East.
"This is an excessive statement because this is not a plan to be complete is something that is quite like the framework presented by the previous US governance under President Biden a few months before his departure in the winter of 2024. This new 20 -point design ”.
The Arabs, he continued, are positive about this plan as it changes the Riviera scenario in Gaza, which would basically mean a more general mass and coercive displacement of the Palestinians that no Arab country would want to host on its territory.
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Mr Dimopoulos initially said that this was not a comprehensive plan but a framework for further negotiations between Israel and Hamas. He noted that Mr Netanyahu said that he accepted it but extreme forces of his coalition had rejected some points, while Hamas is hesitant.
"It is a skeleton and a number of issues should be clarified. In essence, these 20 points are a mix of various other proposals that have been on the table since the war began. In both sides, both sides have appeared to accept the original position of Americans in the principle, but the framework is not."
Among the issues that need to be clarified, Mr Dimopoulos said, is the question of who will rule Gaza the next day. He explained that the plan refers to a proposal for temporary technocratic, non -political Palestinian committee that will take on a temporary transitional governance of Gaza, but it is not clarified how members will be selected, what the Commission will be.
Another question that arises, he added, is what the role of the Palestinian Authority will be. He also speaks of a temporary stabilizing force that will grow in the Gaza Strip. "Where will it come from, which countries will they participate, with what jurisdiction will it be developed? What will be its command terms?"
It is still open, he said, the issue of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. The plan, he said, talks about some landmarks and some terms that have not been clarified. In addition, it refers to a seat belt, which again is not clarified.
"They are issues that should be agreed and will be negotiated in the coming weeks if not months," Mr Dimopoulos told the CPC.
Another key question, he continued, is what will happen to the issue of the establishment of a Palestinian state.
He recalled that in recent weeks of European and other states, "in reaction to violence, horror and starvation in Gaza, they have been recognizing a Palestinian state without obvious response because in order to have a state it must have certain characteristics and structures that do not exist at this time.
Mr Dimopoulos said that there is no clear reference to the Palestinian right of the Palestinians in their own state but there is talk of a Palestinian desire for their own state. This, he said, is a significant distance and difference between the two sides and will be a friction point because it is a red line.
He also added, there is no mention of what will happen to the West Bank, which is considered as a very important issue for the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs and will be an important point for Israel.
"This plan is a first step but there are many questions, it is a plan with many unanswered questions," he concluded.
