Egypt’s President General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has come up with a new and surprising solution to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Establish a Palestinian state in the Sinai.
Egyptian President Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reportedly proposed to Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas to extend the Gaza Strip into the Sinai area and establish a Palestinian state there.
According to the plan, Egypt would provide a 1,600-square-kilometer area in the Sinai Peninsula near the Gaza Strip, making the Strip five times its size, where a Palestinian state would be established under full control of the PA. The Palestinian refugees would go to that state, which would be demilitarized.
In addition to the new state south of Gaza there would be full Palestinian autonomy in PA-administered cities Judea and Samaria. In return, Abbas would relinquish the Palestinian demand for a return to the ’67 borders.
According to IDF Radio, al-Sisi told Abbas that if he does not take this offer, those who succeed him will take it, but Abbas was not convinced and rejected the proposal. IDF Radio further reports that the Americans are also in the picture and have given a green light to the plan.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly advised of the program, but according to a preliminary investigtion by the radio station, he has not updated his staff on the proposed solution.
The radio journalist pointed out that a similar program had been suggested by Israeli academics in the past as well as by former National Security Council head Giora Eiland. Eiland claimed at the time that the area of Gaza is too small to support more than a million residents and therefore must be increased at the expense of the Sinai. However, when this idea was presented a few years ago, Egypt rejected it outright.
Serious Responses to the Egyptian Proposal
Responding to the offer on IDF Radio, Member of Knesset Yaakov Perry said that al-Sisi’s generosity was surprising but that there were many issues outstanding. “Questions must be asked, and we do not yet have enough details, regarding the status of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem. We should address the offer seriously, even if Abu Mazen (Abbas) has turned it down,” Perry, who is a former head of the Shabak (Israel’s Security Agency), said.
Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz welcomed al-Sisi’s proposal, which he praised as “the Egyption President’s amazing offer.”
“This is the End of Days. The Americans are in support [of the proposal]. All that is left is to convince Abu Mazen, who is in pursuit of the Palestinian right of return to Israel, and the Israeli Left, who are eager to relinquish land.”
Egypt and the PA Deny the Report
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry denies that al-Sisi ever made such an offer to the Palestinian Authority, i24 News reports.
Abbas’ office likewise denies the report. PA Secretary-General Al-Tayyib Abd Al-Rahim told the Palestinian Ma’an news agency that the report was “fabricated.” He added that Abbas would not accept any alternative to a Palestinian state on the 1949 Armistice lines with eastern Jerusalem as its capital. Abbas’s representative further claimed that Egypt shares the PA’s position on this issue.
Author: Aryeh Savir
Staff Writer, United with Israel
WarSclerotic 
September 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM
A Palestinian state in Sinai? Bad idea.
The Palestinian’s top priority is the destruction of Israel. As long as the Palestinian’s are on Israel’s border they’ll be obsessed with the destruction of Israel, because their Islamic ideology demands it. And because they’ll continue to be egged on by other Islamic countries which are using and sacrificing the Palestinians for their own advantage.
Israel should realize by now that it can not have a hostile state on it’s borders. It has to have peaceful neighbors, like Jordan, for now, or like formerly Christian Lebanon. The Palestinians have to be removed somewhere not on Israel’s borders, and from where they can not soon return to Israel’s borders.
If the Palestinians were smart, they would take the Sinai offer. Just imagine not a small Gaza with borders and ports under the control of Israel, but a much expanded Gaza, with room for a huge population all hostile to Israel, with open borders to allow Iran to ship in the latest rocket drone and naval technology, with a sea port and navy and airport and air force far away from Israel and not under it’s control, with full national statehood with full freedom from any control by Israel and the full protection of the Islamo-Communist organization called the UN. But a Palestine in Sinai would still be on Israel’s border and so it would still be in Israel’s face every day, nurturing it’s sense of victim hood and grudge and grievance.
And the agreements that would go along with a Palestine in Sinai? The Palestinians would get a huge increase in territory and the agreements would be forgotten before the ink was dry. Israel should change it’s name to “Charlie Brown”, he’s always falling for UN Lucy’s promise that, yes she tricked him last time but she promises she won’t trick him this time.
But the Palestinians are stupid, so they reject the offer, they want to stay and destroy Israel today, instead of building themselves up so they can destroy Israel tomorrow.
If Israel was smart, they would start to relocate Palestinians to somewhere like Africa or Arabia, after all, the population of Gaza is the size of a small city in a big country, make them an attractive offer, but then continue to make life so miserable for the Palestinians who remain in Gaza that they self-deport to their new home, far away. Once removed from the immediate vicinity of Israel they would become more concerned with trying to survive in their new environment, like more normal states.
And once the Palestinians are removed from the vicinity of Israel, Israel would greatly improve it’s international image, because it would not have to be seen periodically defending itself against Islamic terrorists and accidentally killing Palestinian civilian women and children.
A peaceful stable world has to be founded on the independent national ethno-state, states that respect each other, that live and let live, that cooperate with each other but that are defined by borders language culture race and religion. Ideally with defensible borders that are defined by geographic features, like mountains oceans or rivers, not arbitrary lines on a map. The state is the protector of the race. This is the very definition of Zionism. The forces at work today trying to create the “one world government” are doing everything they can to destroy strong national ethno-states like Israel, as they have already destroyed Rhodesia and South Africa and as they are in the process of destroying Europe and the United States today. To achieve their dystopian dream the “globalists” have to destroy everything that stands in their way, the sovereign state and it’s national borders, language, culture, race and religion.
September 9, 2014 at 4:35 PM
The Arabs created the Palestinian problem and only the Arabs can solve it. Now when Obama, the Persians and the Turks have stolen the Palestinian agenda from the Arabs they are forced to solve the problem since they need Israels help against Iran.
I think the Saudi king will soon make Jordan the Palestine it was intended to be. We will soon see turmoil in Jordan and a new paradigm for Jordan when the 70% Palestinians are grabbing power from the minority tyranny.
September 9, 2014 at 5:51 PM
If this offer is true and Abbas refused it, he’s striped bare and exposed as the fraud he’s always been.
September 9, 2014 at 6:03 PM
Yes, Palestinian “statehood” has only one goal – Israels destruction – the Arabs know it and have got enough of it.
In one day the Arabs can solve the Palestinian problem and the Saudis will solve it and this way take the tools from the Islamists in Iran and Turkey.