US allies break with Trump to force diplomatic shift on Gaza

With Canada joining France and the United Kingdom in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state, the United States stands firmly with Israel – but does Trump have a long -term plan for the future of Gaza?

Among all the history ads around the Middle East, the extermination that may be less prominent in the global collective memory in Tokyo in November 2023.

The then US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkkin put a series of principles for the “next day” of the War in Gaza at a G7 Group meeting, a group of the world’s most powerful countries.

He traveled there from Tel Aviv, after the Israeli leadership interviewed a month after Hamas attacks on October 7, during the Israeli attack that followed in Gaza.

Blinken included what was the conditions for us the military targets of Israel and the broader conflict:

No forced displacement of the Palestinians. No re -occupation of Israeli Gaza after the war. There is no attempt to siege or besieging Gaza. Future governance must be led by the Palestinian, which involves internationally backed Palestinian Authority. There is no role in Hamas.

The principles were aimed at generating support from America’s allies in Europe and parts of the Arab world – even if Israel objected to many of them. Few might remember Blinken announces his principles in Tokyo Less than all Trump administration, which he abandoned immediately.

But ideas are still supported by many American allies, who traveled to the United Nations in New York this week to attend a conference led by the French to a Reviving the two -state solution.

The conference tops the headlines such as France, then the United Kingdom, which committed to recognition of a Palestinian state later this year under certain circumstances. Wednesday afternoon, Canada followed her example. But the Trump administration boycotted the meeting, and saw this as hostile to Israel.

“The United States will not participate in this insult, but it will continue to lead efforts in the real world to end the fighting and provide permanent peace,” said US State Department spokeswoman Tami Bruce.

Now, the gap between the United States and its traditional allies opened the future of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict.

This asks a question: Does the Trump administration have a vision of future rule in Gaza and permanent peace in the long term?

It has become increasingly clear that no – at least not one of itself. Earlier this month, Mrs. Bruce asked about the administration’s vision of future governance in Gaza, exceeding her requirements of Hamas.

It reported that “the countries, our partners in the region” were working to implement “new ideas” that the president requested. When she pressed her on what she said, she said: “I will not tell you exactly today.”

In February, President Trump announced that the United States will take over the Gaza Strip and build A. “Riviera from the Middle East” In a plan that included forced displacement of the Palestinians in the region, which the United States and Israel later tried to demand “voluntary” migration.

While the idea was clearly useless and will be in Violation of international law, It appears to be Trump’s plan after the war. It is supposed to participate in the Israeli military occupation of the tape to facilitate it. It was not clear how any constant rebellion was defeated by Hamas or alignment armed groups.

Since then, the plan has been slowly dropped, quietly – at least in its shape complete. On Tuesday, he was asked about his plan to move the Palestinians Trump, which he described as “a concept that many people embraced, but also some people did not like them.”

Perhaps the latter was a reference to the rejection of the Arab countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, which Trump visited in May for a luxurious trade tour to take a doctrine insufficiency.

The administration prefers to talk about the immediate issue: editing the hostages and obtaining a ceasefire. When Trump was once again asked to look further, during a recent visit to the White House from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he immediately postponed the Israeli leader to answer.

It amounts to increasing evidence that the Trump administration strategy in Gaza is increasingly parallel to its Israeli ally.

Mr. Netanyahu rejects any involvement in the Palestinian Authority in the future rule in Gaza, as his forces now control about two thirds of the region. The right -wing extremist party demands its coalition with a permanent military occupation, expelling the Palestinians and building the Jewish settlements.

Israel and the United States have tried to control the food supplies of the Palestinians, within the military areas, while Israel also armed a Palestinian militia competing with Hamas. The International Authority, which monitors the famine, said the classification of integrated food security (IPC), there Evidence of hunger on a large scaleAnd malnutrition and disease in Gaza. Israel blamed Hamas and the United Nations for the crisis, but said it facilitated more aid.

I watched many disturbing European countries. UK Foreign Minister David Lami told me on Wednesday: “We have seen the most shocking scenes. The global community is being insulted by children who are shot and killed upon assistance.”

Hunger seems to be a turning point for European countries – an ethical force to push their varying diplomacy. He also launched local pressure in Britain and France to recognize a Palestinian state under certain circumstances.

Without a coherent and internationally supportive plan for future governance, Gaza faces the possibility of chaos.

Blinken was aware of this danger early in the war, and was transferred between the Arab countries trying to urge them to participate in a future plan that includes parts of the authority of the Palestinians and the Arab countries that provide security forces. It also interfered on at least three occasions, forcing Israel to allow more assistance in Gaza, twice using the threat of restricting American weapons in clarifying his point of view.

There was no such pressure by the Trump administration, which has accelerated weapons to Israel since January.

The United States has left up to a strategic vacuum on the Gaza plan in the long run. The Europeans, who work with Arab Gulf provinces, spent this week an attempt to fill it.

For them, without effective help, the ruling and a long -term peace plan, the effect on the ground will only deteriorate. They called this week to intervene urgent aid, support the Palestinian Authority, and revive work towards a two -state solution – even without the participation of the United States.

It is heading to years of the agreement that the Great Western powers will recognize only a Palestinian state at the end of the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. More importantly, their common statement means that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Arab and Muslim world, was joining Hamas and calling for its disarmament.

Now they hope to transfer them, with the support of Arab countries, is due to a more firm diplomatic process.

But their conference – which will meet again in September – is working against all difficulties. The superpower seat is empty.