Middle East Crisis: Trump assures peace as he signs Egypt Treaty
Amid efforts to lay to rest crises in the Middle East, President Trump and Middle East leaders have signed Gaza peace declaration treaty.
On Monday, the United States President Donald Trump said the peace agreement between Israel and Hamas would be the catalyst to ending conflict and restoring peace in the Middle East region as he was joined by almost thirty nations at the signing ceremony in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt.
Mr. Trump said the deal, which came into effect last weekend and saw the remaining 20 living hostages that had been held by Hamas returned to Israeli soil after more than two years in captivity, means “new and beautiful day” that was “rising” in the region, to be followed by a rebuilding process funded by multiple Arab states.
Pointing at his own past as a real estate developer and hotelier, and the prolific building in various oil-rich Persian Gulf states, President Trump said that the rehabilitating of Gaza Strip after military assault of Israel that has rendered most the region’s livable homes inhabitable “is maybe going to be the easiest part.”
“I think we’ve done a lot of the hardest part because the rest comes together. We all know how to rebuild, and we know how to build better than anybody in the world,” he said.
“It’s perhaps the wealthiest and most powerful group of nations ever assembled at one time, which is a big thing we have achieved together in recent days, a change that really is historic, and it’s going to be remembered forever.” he said.
As he went through the list, just like a chief host of ceremonies at am American wedding, he gave many of the present leaders present or the countries they represented.
Iraq, he said has “lots of oil … so much oil, they don’t know what to do with it.”
“That’s a big problem,” he added.
He also made a remark on Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni’s appearance, describing it as “beautiful” and proposing that praising a woman’s beauty in the United States might spell the end of his political career.
“She wanted to be here, and she’s incredible, and they really respect her. In Italy, she’s, she’s a very successful, very successful politician,” he added.
While running through the list and on Norway, he remarked on the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s failure to issue him the Nobel Peace Award last week.
“Oh, Norway, Norway … what happened?” he said.
On getting to the end of the list, he commended the present leaders for coming after only a relatively short notice to the impromptu gathering, telling the crowd: “These people all came on like 20-minute notice, and I think it’s fantastic.”
Continuing, Trump saluted the peace accord. That he and other leaders had signed earlier in the evening as a “momentous breakthrough” and “the new beginning for an entire beautiful Middle East as he recalled how the move which led to the peace treaty began three weeks ago during a meeting of Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
A few days later, he declared a 20-point agendum to bring to an end the war in Gaza alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu─an obvious absence from the peace ceremony’s attendance who chose not to be present despite being invited by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
“I met with many of the people in this room, and it all just started coming together … we listened and we exchanged ideas, and we kept pushing forward until the job was done,” Trump said.
Returning to the topic of rehabilitating Gaza from ruins it has been diminished to by the Israeli Defence Force over the last two years of war, Mr. Trump noted that the priority of Gaza’s population “must be on restoring the basics of a good life.”
“We’re going to have a lot of money coming into Gaza, and a lot of rebuilding and building. It’s not so much rebuilding, it’s really building, cleaning up and building,” Trump said.
He stressed that he was “pleased” to declare that “numerous countries of great wealth and power and dignity”─nations he chose not to mention their names─had implored to assist in helping rebuilding Gaza by “putting up whatever money is necessary.”
“It’s a lot of money, but it’s not much compared to the value or the wealth of these tremendous countries, and they are ensuring stability and success in the Middle East,” he said.
“And as those commitments are made, I’m going to let the world know who is doing it, because they really deserve great credit for doing it, and they’re going to do something that’s really monumental.”
Although it was not understandable what Trump and the other leaders had earlier signed, everything worked in accordance alongside Netanyahu at the White House earlier this month.
On Monday evening, the first chapter of the plan had been opened, including the following steps: the treaty also says that Hamas militant who have agreed to “commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons” will receive amnesty and any who want to leave Gaza would be granted passage to as-yet unspecified “receiving countries.”
The move also calls for aid to Gaza to continue with minimum level of aid constant with the temporary ceasefire deal signed by the outgoing Biden and incoming Trump administration representatives in January.
Israel is also looking to interfere with aid distribution by Red Crescent and United Nations plus “other international institutions not associated in any manner with either party.”
The duty of administrating Gaza would then fall to a “temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza” and comprised “qualified Palestinians and international experts.”
That committee would in turn be supervised by a “Board of Peace” to be chaired by Trump and include Blair as well as other “other members and heads of State to be announced.”
Going by the plan, the board would “set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza” until the Palestinian Authority meets conditions laid out in a plan put forth by Trump during his first term.
It is yet to be known who the members of the “Board of Peace” would be, but apart from Trump and Blair, Mr. Trump suggested that “everybody” he has had dialogued with has shown interest in serving.
“So we’re probably going to enlarge it. We’re going to get and the leaders, the top people, the top leaders, they want to be on the board of peace,” he said.
President Trump added that leaders had all agreed that Gaza will need a “new, honest civilian police force” to “create a safe condition” for Gazans, and stated that the United States would “be a good partner” for “securing a better future” for Gaza population.
“We’re going to be working you’re going to be working with the United States, and we’re going to make sure that the Middle East is going to be a safe and secure place,” he said.