“In Gaza, the “protectors” will be the Abraham Accords countries, with the important active addition of Saudi Arabia and Egypt.”

With the clock ticking down to Donald J. Trump re-entering the White House as the 47th president of the United States, the same clock is also ticking down in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, which begs the question: What is the best post-war solution for Gaza in the context of a fractious and dangerous Middle East?

Earlier this year, The Jerusalem Report published my concept of a future Gaza as a model for a new Middle East My concept is to convert a destroyed Gaza into an Abraham Accord project built on the known concept of protectorates and in Gaza’s case, not based on the support of one large nation but a collective protectorate of the existing Abraham Accord partners to reconstruct Gaza both physically and ideologically.

The ideological part is more important than structural rebuilding of Gaza. The Gaza Strip was being controlled by a radical and authoritarian ideology that led to its physical destruction.

A new Gaza cannot be put into the hands of those who refuse to forge a rational peaceful future for its people based on an active desire to live in peace and partnership alongside Israel.

Why the Palestinian Authority (PA) can have no part to play in formulating a new Gaza

The corrupt Fatah-PLO leadership in Ramallah follows the same playbook as Hamas in indoctrinating its young into a mindset of antisemitism and the concept of a Palestine replacement of Israel.

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