On the board of peace – Zvi Bar'el in Haaretz:

‘Until four years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine the president of Egypt sitting with the Qatari ruler and the president of Turkey. Not only have they sat together, they all signed a joint document whose aim is to end the war in Gaza and prepare for a "Middle East peace" and even – world peace.
Now, the former foes, once at each other's throats, have taken on joint responsibility to run Gaza, ensuring that Hamas fulfills the commitments it made to U.S. President Donald Trump and that Israel does as it says. These countries are also supposed to supply soldiers to the multinational force, determine who will be members of the Board of Peace that Trump is appointing, ensure Hamas disarms and manage the reconstruction budget as well as any donations that flow into Gaza.’

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‘Among the 13 conditions for lifting the blockade presented to Qatar were removing the Turkish military base established in Doha in 2014 and breaking ties with both Turkey and Iran.
Egypt initially joined the blockade because Doha "had consistently stood against Egypt, promoted the ideologies of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, and interfered in the internal affairs of Egypt and other countries." Now Egypt has ruptured its relationship with Turkey just as it had with Qatar in 2017.
The Turkish-Qatari undertaking in Libya managed to overcome resistance by the separatist general, Khalifa Haftar, who was supported by Egypt, Russia and the UAE. Not only did Haftar withdraw, Turkey and Libya signed an agreement to define their maritime economic border in a way that threatened Egypt's gas fields from its markets in the Mediterranean and Europe.’

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‘The regional takeover, of course, also has implications for the status of these two countries inside the Trump administration. Trump's deep "love" for the ruler of Qatar is not due only to the luxury plane he gifted him, the golf courses he plans to build in the country or the massive investments Qatar has pledged to make in the United States. Formally granted the status as a "senior non-NATO ally" by Biden and home to the largest American base in the Middle East, Qatar may now hold the key to realizing Trump's 20-point plan.
While Mohammad bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, and Mohammed Bin Zayed, the president of the UAE, were excluded from the Sharm el-Sheikh "peace conference," it was Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani who signed the "Trump Declaration." Al Thani may be the strategic contributor to the reconstruction of Gaza, while Erdogan is expected to be the political strategist who determines the fate of the Strip.’

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‘But Trump and Erdogan's tough dialogue is driven by shared interests that oblige them to cooperate.
Trump wants Turkey, which has not adopted the Western sanctions on Russia, to stop buying Russian gas, to ensure that Syria becomes a stable country, that the al-Sharaa regime signs security agreements with Israel, that Erdogan resolves the issue of the Russian defense systems that worries NATO, and that U.S. forces can finally withdraw from Syria after Turkey takes responsibility for the war against ISIS.
Turkey wants to return to the F-35 project from which it was expelled due to the Russian air defense affair. Erdogan is seeking Trump's backing for his policy towards the Syrian Kurds and to resolve the complicated legal problem of Turkey's Halkbank, which was convicted in the U.S. of circumventing sanctions on Iran and ordered to pay billions of dollars in penalties.
Erdogan himself is believed to be involved in the affair. He told reporters upon his return from his White House visit that Trump assured him that "the affair is over." But it is possible that it may be no more serious than Trump's call for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.’

Read the article here.

Not the restauration of the English empire, but the restauration of the Ottoman empire.

Blair, just as a pawn, with some business interests in the region.

We will see if Gaza turns out to be very different from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Also, we will see when the first Turkish or Egyptian solders will enter Gaza. I would like to remind us all, of the Beirut barracks bombings in 1983.

See here.

But who knows, maybe this adventure will end in Singapore in Gaza. A golf course and obedience. The torture chambers will be well hidden, as always.