Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, who is in Washington this week, presented his plan for Gaza at the neo-con Foundation for the Defense of Democracies yesterday. According to Jewish Insider, Lapid’s plan is for Egypt to take temporary control of Gaza for eight to 15 years after the war in Gaza, in cooperation with various other regional powers, in exchange for international relief of its foreign debt obligations.
Lapid said that, based on the completion of “measurable benchmarks” in anti-corruption and deradicalization, Egypt would turn over control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority at the end of its guardianship period, in coordination with Israel and the United States.
In exchange, the international community would pay off Egypt’s mounting international debts, both incentivizing Egypt to participate in the plan and stabilizing the Egyptian government. “We can take these two problems and combine them into one solution,” Lapid said.