Yossi Mekelberg, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, tells Al Jazeera that the Arab Summit in Cairo came with “many things that are positive for Israel, positive for the Palestinians, positive for the region”.
He said, “Israel doesn’t have to accept in the first instance everything that’s in there,” describing the Gaza reconstruction plan put forward by Egypt as an “opening gambit”.
Unfortunately, Mekelberg added, the Israeli government is used to rejecting proposals “unless it gets everything that it wants”.
“This is not a very clear diplomacy,” he said.
“Obviously, after what…President Trump said only a few weeks ago about the expulsion of all the Palestinians from Gaza, this, all of a sudden, became almost an official policy in Israel. But it’s not going to happen, it shouldn’t happen,” he said.