The Visionary Palestinian Peace Plan for Israel and Gaza That You've Never Heard Of
A 51-page document by a group of Palestinian scholars and policy thinkers offers a much clearer path to Middle East peace than the UN resolution or Trump's 20-point plan
Ha'aretz via Archive.Today — free to read in full.
...Some analysts [have been] quick to protest the flaws ... of the UN Security Council resolution. Yet what is the alternative? … There are clear caveats to any answer. Hamas and Fatah are both widely reviled by Palestinians, and can hardly be seen to represent the people. Yet no one Palestinian can speak for a range of perspectives within civil society.
But Palestinian voices display significant agreement on some essential principles for a Palestinian cease-fire, peace and recovery plan. These principles respond to the current U.S.-led process but also reflect long-standing Palestinian positions and demands that they have expressed for years.
Perhaps the most comprehensive, pragmatic, visionary plan for a path forward is the Palestinian Armistice Plan, released earlier this year. Co-authored by a group of Palestinian scholars and policy thinkers and sponsored by the Cambridge Initiative on Peace Settlements, this 51-page document is packed with details about how the authors propose that Gaza should move from war to cease-fire, to international intervention, to peace.
Responding to the recent Security Council resolution, the basic principles for a better immediate cease-fire plan range from the logical to the obvious….
The article is a not too long summary well worth reading in full — please use the free link above. It gives access as well to the website of
the remarkable "Phoenix-Gaza" reconstruction project [spearheaded by a group of Gazan municipalities] … Palestinian engineers, architects, university students and researchers have produced a document of extraordinary scope and optimism … dedicated to reconstructing housing, health, education, neighborhoods, heritage and more. What's needed is a ceasefire and a political horizon to draw external commitments and funds….
