Hussain Abdul-Hussain of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has published what he thinks the Arab Plan for Gaza will likely look like. It will be revealed at the summit to be held in Cairo on March 4, but already the plan’s broad outlines have been leaked. More on the “Arab plan for Gaza” can be found here: “The likely Arab plan for Gaza: No Hamas, no PA, no deportation,” Elder of Ziyon, February 23, 2025:
Plan not out yet, will likely be unveiled at Cairo Arab League Emergency Summit on March 4. Plan expected to promise enormous amount of Gulf money (up to $20 billion) to Gaza (Egypt will certainly get a cut and PA’s Mahmoud Abbas will also get a bribe to buy him out of the plan).
Considering that the estimated cost of rebuilding Gaza is now upwards of $55 billion, the pledge of $20 billion will not be nearly enough. And $55 billion would hardly be missed by the treasuries of the rich Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait. Perhaps the Arabs are hoping to entice the U.S. and the Europeans to contribute more billions of their own. That notion should be promptly rejected. The non-Muslim countries have over the past half-century provided hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to the Muslim Arab countries, especially to Egypt and Jordan. It is time to call a complete halt to this misguided transfer of wealth, and to hew to the rule that “Muslims must help Muslims.”
What do the Arab states intend to do about the $14 billion that just four leaders of Hamas have stolen over the years from the aid money meant to support all the people in Gaza? Those leaders are Khaled Meshaal ($4 billion), Mousa Abu Marzouk ($3 billion), the late Ismail Haniyeh ($4 billion), and the late Yahya Sinwar ($3 billion)? The Trump administration would do well to remind the world of these vast sums which, if located and seized, would mean that the Arab states could reduce their own contributions to the reconstruction of Gaza.
The crux of the plan is this: In return for the enormous money to rebuild Gaza, both Hamas and Abbas will be out of Gaza. In their stead, a Palestinian governing body (the plan calls them technocrats), will be installed by the Arab League and put in charge of rebuilding Gaza, physically and politically. This body will oversee reconstruction and make sure to keep out two things: PA’s corruption and Hamas’s wars. Funders, after all, want to make sure that all the billions they will invest will not be stolen or not be destroyed in yet another round of war with Israel.
Will Hamas simply go quietly? Will its leaders have to be bribed to leave? Will the upper echelon of Hamas be offered permanent refuge in rich Arab countries? Or will those Arab countries be allowed by Israel to send into Gaza a pan-Arab military force to crush what remains of Hamas, in order to then impose a government of technocrats, consisting of Palestinians who have been serving in the Gulf as senior aides to the local rulers?
And what if Mahmoud Abbas or others in the Palestinian Authority try to replace Hamas in Gaza, and insist that they are the “only true representatives of the Palestinian people” and not our “brothers in the Arab Gulf to whom, of course, we are grateful for their generous aid”? Will those Arab states be able to impose their will on Gaza? Why would Gazans prefer the famously corrupt Abbas — who with his sons Tarek and Yasser has acquired a fortune of $400 million — to the government of technocrats who, under the Arab Plan, would take control? Perhaps Abbas or his successors (he is now 89) in the PA would be able to appeal to a nascent Palestinian nationalist sentiment to oppose a plan the other Arabs want to impose “on us, the Palestinian people.” Or would the Gulf Arabs be able to buy off Abbas or other PA leaders who might succeed him, so that in return for dropping their objections to the plan for a Gazan government of technocrats, they would receive enormous bribes, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars?
Elder of Ziyon thinks that Trump’s plan for Gaza was presented as a way to prod the Arab states to produce an alternative plan for the Strip, and especially, to get them to pledge a large contribution to finance Gaza’s reconstruction. And it worked. The reason the Arab states want to reconstruct Gaza, Elder of Ziyon says, is not out of any great sympathy for the Palestinians, who are treated with contumely throughout the Arab world, but rather, in order to keep the Gazan Arabs in the Strip, rather than have them attempt to move to their own countries. The Gazans would have to endure living in what Trump calls a “demolition site,” but one where technocrats would rule, rather than the corrupt PA or the murderous Hamas. And these technocrats might be able, through instituting a series of short-term population moves within well-defined areas of Gaza, keep its people constantly moving away from the sites whose turn has come to be razed and rebuilt. Thus Gaza, sector by sector, will, be reconstructed, and after each sector has been rebuilt, people will move back in. And the credit for this solution should then go to Donald Trump, its onlie begetter. But it won’t.
Tony says
Israel should annex the Gaza territory and rename it, and Israel should ban Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, its Organizations, etc. because of Islam’s terrorism, discrimination, and violence against Israel and Non-Muslims.
Islam and its Muslims fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners. Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. Under Islamic Law, Muslims are required to terrorize Non-Muslims becausee it is a Crime against Allah to neglect this Muslim DUTY; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:29; Muslim Law Manual – “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15 and more).
Tatonka says
Got to agree.
Banning Islam from Western and European countries is long overdue
somehistory says
Wait: the world is stuck on “migrants” and “immigration” and “immigrants.”
Everyone must be allowed in to whatever nation to which they want to go and enter, even illegally.
so, the gazans can join the migration and just go right on out of Israel.
Had the ‘arabs’ come up with a “plan” in the past….but they didn’t….they might have worked something up that would have satisfied some mozlums.
Only since Mr. Trump has proposed it, and the Jews of Israel have agreed to it, have the arabs shown concern….except to use those mozlums in Gaza as weapons against Israel.
And so, to have the mozlums remain, is still their original idea…use the mozlums there as weapons against Israel.
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
The crucial obstacle to your ”migration” solution for Gazans was that none of the Arab countries want them,,,,
BUT….
I don’t see Turkey’s Erdogan in that blessed photo….
Aren’t they Arab enough?
AND
Erdogan just recently expressed his support for the plans for Gazans saying specifically that GAZANS were, by rights, CITIZENS of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE and that should shape ANY PLANNING for the Gazan…
Google says that:
BOTH GAZANS and Erdogan’s TURKEY were the SAME BRAND of MOSLEM — Sunni iirc,
whereas the brand for Saudis, etc are the opposite –Shia or some such…
Do you suppose that……..
bribing will be needed for such appropriate migrating?
Why else did Erdogan make such a connection between Turkey and Gazans?
somehistory says
Sorry, I don’t read shouting.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Prof Raichyk
No, Turks are not Arabs
somehistory says
OT
“Hamas calls on Muslims to oppose reported plans to limit Temple Mount access during Ramadan ‘by any means’”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-calls-on-muslims-to-oppose-reported-plans-to-limit-temple-mount-access-during-ramadan-by-any-means/ar-AA1zLWIV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=dab371ecffd3435ce50742557c5da7df&ei=56
࿗Infidel࿘ says
What have the Arabs said about the Gazans? Do they expect them to stay there while the place is being reconstructed?
abu taleb says
Allah will repay multifold the USD 20 billiona in paradise because part of it is for the jihad of killing the Jews.
That is why muslims prefer to give money for jihad (or for daqwah) than to humanitarian aid even for their own muslim fellows.
Rarely says
What currency do they use in paradise? What do you need money for in paradise? Who in paradise makes the goods for sale?
Does a newcomer have to pay for the virgins? If so, who in paradise pimps them?
It’s actually a pretty good idea to give money for humanitarian aid and to build and create rather than to destroy through jihad or anything else and let paradise take care of itself when the time comes. Wouldn’t this World be a better place if the adherents to the so-called “Religion of Peace” acted peaceful? How could allah be offended by that?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You are trying to use logic in an islamic context. Stop!
Richard Loewe says
maybe they need to pay the doctors to sew up the “virgins” for the next round of rape? To me, it has always been one of the most bizarre things about islam that apparently souls have bodies with all that comes with bodies. And drinking is okay in paradise but not on earth? Raping is ok for guys and for girls and children it is ok to be raped? This islam is such a bizarre idea…
jule says
It must never be allowed to happen! This is crutial. Never allow this to happen
skeptiker says
Israel muss es endlich zu Ende bringen. Was heißt, Gaza, Judäa und Samaria annektieren, die Terroristen zusammen mit ihren Familien vertreiben und diese ,von den Faschisten befreiten Gebiete zu israelischem Territorium erklären. Alle anderen Optionen ergeben keinen Sinn und dienen nur dem Fortführen der Gewalt und des Terrors gegen Israel.
Brenrod says
The Arab states caused the Arab refugee problem and therefore should bear the Palestinian burden. They should live with the depraved culture they created and sustained over the last century. Subsidize the smuggling network so that hundreds of boats can leave Gaza beach daily with no approval needed from those who want the status quo. Israel would be foolish to let any of thre foxes back into the henhouse. Israe should create courts to proseygazans who enabled Hamas. They are accessories to the atrocities and must be brought to justice.
Brenrod says
There is little difference between Hamas and the Muslim states who financed them. The Trump plan keeps the problem creators out of the solution. The best plan is to prosecute the Hamas enablers and move out the rest with Israel annexing Gaza.
somehistory says
absolutely. Persecutors don’t ask fellow members of a mafia gang what they should do with the ones they have arrested.
James Lincoln says
Great point, somehistory.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
OLD GUY says
Not one dime of American tax payer money should go to rebuild Gaza. PERIOD
Richard Loewe says
I kinda like how Gaza looks now…