Afrasianet - Dr. Hani Al-Akkad - Since Trump announced the agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza and an effective end to the war through a three-stage plan, Israel has not engaged in the agreement in practice and has not implemented any of its clauses or stages on the ground so far, except for what it sees in its interest. It has entrenched itself in the so-called yellow line, so that it often hints that this line represents the new border between it and the Gaza Strip. In an attempt to gnaw and steal more than 55% of the land of the Gaza Strip under false pretexts, but in reality it is implementing plans to divide the Gaza Strip into two halves that keep half under its control and the other half under the control of Hamas, and through this Israel wants to achieve an equation on the ground by imposing the security control it sees on the Gaza Strip for as long as it sees it, and any change in the Gaza Strip must be based on the recommendations of the security and political level in Israel, and of course it does not achieve full control Every small and large Gaza Strip must have crossings, aid, and control over the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and Israel should have a role in this, especially the sale of materials necessary for construction to contractors and companies, at least if it does not impose visions to reformulate the Palestinian demographic map in the Gaza Strip and set the impossible conditions for the restoration of life for the residents of the Gaza Strip who have been displaced in the displacement tents for two years or more.
Netanyahu's meeting with Trump comes about eighty days after the start of the agreement to end the war according to Trump's plan that was signed in Sharm el-Sheikh last October, and thus the White House administration confirms that Netanyahu does not want to end the first phase of the agreement and move to the second phase and thus commit to Trump's plan and progress in its stages, while the Trump administration has more than one proof with many indications that Israel will put all the obstacles it can put so that the agreement does not advance It is proceeding to its conclusion in order to ensure the achievement of lasting security and stability so that peace prevails in the Gaza Strip, and most importantly, Trump's plan does not reach final solutions to the conflict in which Israel is forced to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, and this is what Israel is now working to obstruct not only in Gaza but in the West Bank by legislating, accelerating settlements and advancing plans for the undeclared annexation of large areas in the West Bank. Beyond the Yellow Line, she considered that the agreement gave her an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the Palestinian demography by erasing all forms of civilian life there, and she does not want to leave anything for the residents if the occupation army withdraws from those areas and returns with the start of the implementation of the provisions of the second phase. Netanyahu cannot continue to evade the implementation of the plan's phases and the terms of these stages, and he cannot face the American pressure, which wants Trump's plan to succeed because it is the war in Gaza and the achievement of peace at any cost, but he can evade and procrastinate and use new mechanisms to evade, all of which are based on lies and flimsy pretexts, and this is what we fear will keep pace with the transition to the second phase and progress in implementing its provisions.
After an extensive reading of the outcomes of Trump's meeting with Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, we say that the meeting may have put an end to the issue of Netanyahu's manipulation of the agreement, and it was settled on the table that was discussed, and it was agreed that Netanyahu would implement the plan without evading or making excuses, because the plan is Trump's plan, its implementation and success means the success of his foreign policy and the ability of his administration to intervene, resolve conflicts, and stop wars in the world, the most important of which is the war on Gaza. Netanyahu went to meet with Trump to barter the Trump team for entering the second phase in exchange for obtaining several things, the most important of which is the United States' recognition of the stationing of an army in southern Syria within the Syrian-Israeli understandings, a normalization agreement, and the use of more pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah without Israeli military intervention or Israel's resort to reopening the Lebanon front. He also wants the Trump administration to recognize recognition of the new land of Somalia as a sovereign state, and Netanyahu wants Trump to give him light Green to launch a new military strike on Iran whenever Israel wants, this time targeting Iran's ballistic missile capabilities, which he says threaten Israel again, and there are many things that Netanyahu wants, the most important of which is the disarmament of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which will be tasked with the international stabilization force that will deploy in the Gaza Strip when the second phase of the agreement begins. The Trump team met with Netanyahu before his meeting with Trump and established several things, the most important of which is that President Trump will not give up on Israel's start to enter the second phase and implement the agreement, including Israel's withdrawal from the yellow line, and a date has been set for that, which is January 1, 2026, and they have closed the way for further discussions and negotiations on the terms of the stage because they know that Netanyahu wants to negotiate every item in the second phase and wants to meet with Trump to negotiate each item At this stage, Trump's plan will become just a plan to end the war on paper, nothing more.
Trump may have succeeded this time in resolving many files with Netanyahu, especially the file of his plan in Gaza, ending the war and starting the second phase with all its items according to what his administration wants and according to what his team planned, and Trump did not link the issue of starting the second phase to the disarmament of Hamas or reconstruction as Netanyahu wanted, because his administrations have a vision on this issue, centered on the disarmament of the movement after it was removed from power gradually and in the long term, and not within the limits of two months as Netanyahu wants. Although Netanyahu had taken with him a file prepared by the Mossad to prepare for this issue and put it with the Trump administration to emphasize the need to end the issue of the factional weapons in Gaza before the start of the second phase, this meeting was one of the most important meetings because it is a pivotal meeting, either Trump saves his plan by starting the implementation of the second phase or Netanyahu achieves everything he wanted, and Netanyahu's usual strategy of bartering, blackmailing and obstructing the progress of Trump's plan in Gaza succeeds with the approval of Trump himself. Netanyahu did not expect Trump to resort to opening files that he did not think of, the most important of which is the situation in the West Bank, especially the settlement file, on the state of stability and achieving it for long periods, and therefore the need to limit it, and the issue of settler terrorism and their attacks, which seemed to have the form of gang work, was present on the table of attention of President Trump and he clearly demanded from Netanyahu the need to prevent it and stop these attacks, which harm not only Israel but also the United States as a strategic partner of Israel. Netanyahu did not think that President Trump should focus on the need for Israel to release all the clearance funds that Israel stole from the Palestinian Authority, and even asked for an end to these measures.
Netanyahu did not leave the meeting empty-handed, but he achieved some of what he wanted, but not much, or according to his expectations, but he moved Netanyahu to the subject of more arms deals, and an arms deal was signed for Israel that includes 15 advanced F-15 aircraft, and he obtained approval to release his hand in Lebanon and the freedom of military action, as well as he may have obtained approval to start a major military action there, even in the north of the Litani, and he obtained American approval for measures to achieve security and stability in southern Syria. It is believed that Trump gave Netanyahu approval to strike Iran, but with the prior approval of the White House to destroy Iran's ballistic missile stockpile, which Netanyahu claims was prepared to launch an attack on Israel, and Trump may have agreed to Israel's recognition of the land of Somaliland and considered it an Israeli affair, despite previous opposition to it, but there is an American welcome for Somalia's accession to the Abraham Accords. In the end, we say that during this meeting, Trump was able to put the brakes on Netanyahu on many things that he believes serve the American role in the region, without Israeli scribbles that hinder this role.
