US allies tear with Trump to force a diplomatic shift on gas

When Canada joins France and UK, announcing plans to recognize the Palestinian state, the US is firmly standing with Israel – but do Trump have a long -term gas plan?

Of all the statements about the Middle East, which may be less prominent in the world collective memory, it was in Tokyo in November 2023.

At that time, Secretary of State Antoni Anthony Bleken outlined a number of principles of “Day after the Gaza War at a G7 meeting, a group of the most powerful countries in the world.

After meeting with the Israeli leadership, he went there from Tel -Vaviv one month after Hamas’s attacks on October 7 during the next Israeli offensive.

Blinken listed what the US conditions for Israel’s military tasks and a wider conflict:

There is no violent displacement of the Palestinians. After the war, Israel’s occupation was not re -occupied. No attempt to block and do no gas. The future management, which should be under the guidance of the Palestinians, involving the International Palestinian Authority. No role for Hamas.

The principles were intended to receive the support of America’s allies in Europe and parts of the Arab world – even if Israel objected to many. Little probably remembers Blinken proclaims its principles in Tokyo – The least of all Trump administrations, which immediately threw them away.

But ideas are still supported by many US allies who went to the United Nations in New York this week at a conference led Repeated decision of the two -state decision.

The conference spoke with headlines as France, then the UK, pledged to recognize the Palestinian state at the end of this year under certain conditions. On Wednesday, Canada followed this example. But Trump’s administration boycotted the meeting, considering it as antisrael.

“The United States will not participate in this insult, but will continue to effort in the real world to stop fighting and ensure permanent peace,” the US State Department spokesman said Bruce, highlighting the conference as an “promotional trick”.

Now the abyss has opened between the US and its traditional allies about the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This raises the question: Does Trump have a vision of future gas management and long -term rest?

It becomes more and more clear that this is not – at least not one of them. Earlier this month, I asked Ms Bruce what vision of the administration was for the future gas management, except for Hamas could not exist.

She replied that “countries, our partners in the region” are working on the implementation of “new ideas”, which the president asked. When I pressed her on what’s due, she said, “I will definitely not tell you today.”

In February, President Trump said the US would take over the gas lane and build “Riviera of the Middle East” In terms of the forced relocation of the Palestinians on the territory, of which the US and Israel later tried to claim that it meant “voluntary” emigration.

While the idea was clearly impossible and would be in violation of international law, Trump’s postwar plan seemed to be. This is supposed to participate in the Israeli military occupation of the lane to facilitate it. It was not unclear how any permanent uprising by Hamas or armed groups would be broken.

Since then, the plan has been slowly, quietly – at least in its full form. Asked on Tuesday about his plan to move the Palestinians, Trump called it “a concept that has really taken a lot of people, but also did not like it.”

The latter was probably a reference to the refusal of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries, which Trump visited in May for a magnificent trade tour to take gilded palaces.

The administration prefers to talk about the direct question: release the hostages and get the ceasefire. When Trump was again asked to look beyond this, he immediately postponed the Israeli leader’s responsibility for the recent visit of the White House of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This means increasingly evidence that Trump administration strategy is increasingly in parallel because its Israeli ally.

Mr. Netanyahu rejects any involvement of the Palestinian authorities in the future gas management, where his forces are now controlled by two-thirds of the territory. In the extreme right flank, its coalition requires a constant military occupation, the expulsion of Palestinians and the construction of Jewish settlements.

Israel and the United States tried to control the food for the Palestinians, in the militarized zones, while Israel also armed the Palestinian police officers who compete with Hamas. International body that tracks hunger, integrated food security (IPC) Classification, said there is GRANTING EVENDER OF HEREMalnutrition and disease in gas. Israel accused Hamas and the UN of the crisis, but said it contributed to greater help.

Many European countries watched the agasters. British Foreign Minister David Lami told me on Wednesday: “We saw the most horrific scenes. The world community is deeply offended by the shot children when they seek help.”

Fasting appears to be a sporting point for European countries – a moral impulse to force their diplomacy. Internal pressure in Britain and France also established to recognize the Palestinian state under certain conditions.

Without an agreed, an international plan supported by further control, gas faces the prospect of increasing chaos.

Blinken has been aware of this risk since the beginning of the war and blocked between the Arab states that tried to force them to sign up for the future plan involving the parts of the Palestinian body and Arab countries providing security forces. It also intervened at least three times, forcing Israel to allow more assistance in gas, twice using the US weapons’ restriction to assume.

The Trump administration had no pressure that has accelerated weapons in Israel since January.

The United States has left that the strategic vacuum is long -term gas. This week, Europeans who worked with the Arab Countries of the Persian Gulf, trying to fill it.

For them, without effective assistance, management and long -term peace plan, the impact on the ground will only deteriorate. This week, they called urgent assistance, supporting the Palestinian power and reviving work within a two -state decision – even without signing the United States.

It provides for the years of the Convention, through which the large Western states recognize the Palestinian state only at the end of the talks between Israel and the Palestinians. It is important to note that their combined statement meant that Saudi Arabia, leader of the Arab and Muslim world, joined Hamas condemnation and called for disarmament.

Now they hope that their step with the support of Arab countries presses Trump back to a more established diplomatic process.

But their conference – which will meet again in September – works against all chances. Settings superpower empty.