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This past Monday, Donald Trump vowed to employ the power of his presidency to guarantee that Israel recognises it has secured “all that it can by force of arms”, and initiate an era of partnership in the region that could potentially result as far as a peace agreement with the Iranian state.

A New Dawn for the Region

While speaking to the national legislature of Israel, delivered shortly after the final captives were released from the Gaza Strip, Trump hailed the “historic dawn of a new Middle East” and an termination to the “long and painful nightmare” of the conflict in Gaza.

“This goes beyond the termination of fighting – this is the cessation of an era of terror and death,” President Trump stated. “The nation of Israel, with our help, has won its maximum by armed conflict. The time has come to translate those successes against militants on the field of combat into the supreme objective of peace and prosperity for the area at large.”

Promise to Middle Eastern Countries

Frequently stating that the triumph of Israeli forces was absolute, Trump’s remarks were meant as a reassurance to Arab states that he will not permit the Israeli government to restart the war with the militant group nor allow Hamas to return to power inside Gaza.

The President then journeyed to the nation of Egypt to deliver the message of optimism to a summit of more than 20 international figures dedicated to supporting his diplomatic initiative, the restoration of the Gaza Strip and a limited form of autonomy for Palestinians.

Worldwide Endorsement

The supporters of the treaty – the United States, the Turkish government, Qatar, and Egypt – additionally inked a detailed agreement setting out their duties in securing harmony, and an future route to autonomy for Palestine.

The conference was jointly hosted by Trump and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in the tourist destination of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Reconstruction Efforts

At the opening of the summit, President Trump told reporters that the second stage of his Gaza plan, concerning the restoration of the strip, was now ongoing. He stated to journalists: “Phase two has already started. The phases are all a little bit mixed in with each other. You can start cleaning up. You look at Gaza, it’s a major restoration task.”

The US is already asking wealthy Arab states to donate large sums to the Gaza Strip, a place he referred to as “an extreme level of rubble”. Calculations for the reconstruction costs have exceeded more than $30bn.

Optimistic Forecasts

A confident Trump forecasted “The region will be stabilized, Hamas will be disarmed, and the safety of Israel will no longer be threatened”.

International Relations

President Trump furthermore expressed a subtle signal that the Israeli government had been experiencing reduced backing due to its dependence on military action. He remarked: “It reached a period of time over the past several months when the international community sought harmony and Israel sought resolution. If the situation persisted for a few additional years, maintaining the conflict, persisting with violence, it was getting bad, it was growing volatile. Therefore the moment of the present situation is brilliant. I said the Israeli Prime Minister: ‘your legacy will be defined for this to a greater extent than if you continued the conflict – violence, violence, violence’.”

Regional Treaties

Trump additionally noted he was intending to apply force on regional governments to endorse the Abraham Accords “swiftly and transparently”. The accords require regional nations to recognise Israel. The Iranian government, he asserted, was prepared for diplomacy.

Global Apprehensions

Officials from Europe are privately warning that the speed of the halt in hostilities means arrangements for an multinational security team and a civilian police for Palestinians must be sped up if proposals for Hamas to be stripped of weapons are to bear fruit.

Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since the year 2007, has stated it is ready to exclude itself of the upcoming administrative body of Gaza, but has insisted it will only disarm on certain conditions to a force under Palestinian control.

Defense Protocols

Israel has stated it will refuse to pull back the national army back from its present locations inside Gaza provided that the array of military infrastructure stay under the authority of Hamas.

France, the US, and the United Kingdom have stated they are ready to serve as support to the global team, but it is recognised that the force’s credibility stems from troops hailing from Muslim countries such as the Indonesian government and Turkey, these states that attended the summit.

Prospective Leadership

The French administration is also pressing for the force to be granted a UN mandate, akin to that of the United Nations team in Lebanon.

A separate Palestinian National Authority civilian police force has additionally undergone preparation, mainly in the country of Egypt and the nation of Jordan, to deploy into the Gaza Strip, but officials from France stated that, if not it is deployed rapidly, it faces the danger being in opposition with a resurgent Hamas.

Missing Participants

No representative from Hamas nor Netanyahu participated in the conference.

Governance Responsibilities

Trump insisted he would play his part in the upcoming of the Palestinian territories by leading the diplomatic council that will supervise the large-scale restoration project and monitor a mostly professional governance body.

He added that he wanted the Egyptian President to join the board, but said he was testing opinion in the region to see if there was approval for the ex-British Prime Minister to be on it as well