Can Kazakhstan’s Pres. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev bring Peace to Palestine & Israel?

Может ли президент Казахстана Касым-Жомарт Токаев принести мир Палестине и Израилю?

The successive stages of the preparation of a Palestinian-Israeli peaceful co-habitation plan

Последовательные этапы подготовки палестино-израильского плана мирного сосуществования

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Введение

I. Палестина-Израиль: 10 пунктов общей оценки фактов прошлого и настоящего

II. Палестина-Израиль: 10 пунктов общего восприятия скрытых опасностей

III. Палестина-Израиль: 10 пунктов базового соглашения по сектору Газа

IV. Палестина-Израиль: 10 пунктов базового соглашения по Западному Берегу

V. Десять сильных сторон, которые дают Казахстану возможность добиться единственно эффективного мирного разрешения палестино-израильского конфликта

VI. Десять столпов подхода Казахстана к разрешению палестино-израильского конфликта

VII. Десять этапов плана Казахстана по прекращению палестино-израильского конфликта – резюме и диаграмма

Основные ссылки / ориентиры, по которым в конечном итоге можно будет проконсультироваться:

Contents

Introduction

I. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of common evaluation of past and present facts

II. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of shared perception of the lurking dangers

III. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of a basic agreement on Gaza Strip

IV. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of a basic agreement on West Bank

V. Ten strengths that empower Kazakhstan to bring about the only effective peaceful resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict

VI. Ten pillars of Kazakhstan’s approach to the resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict

VII. Ten stages of Kazakhstan’s plan to terminate the Palestine-Israel conflict – recapitulation and diagram

Basic links/points of reference to eventually consult:

Introduction

The historical depth of the Palestine-Israel conflict is abysmal; it is lost in millennia and in human acts and stories that can be misinterpreted, concealed or forgotten. However, the practical impact of this conflict is already abhorrent, and chances are that it becomes fatal for all.

Observing the astonishment of people across the Earth and monitoring the reaction of governments to the recent developments, one can easily conclude that the force of vision and the drive of life have abandoned the humans. There is a phenomenal dearth of creative imagination and an enormous lack of drastic decision to put an end to an endlessly deteriorating trouble.

Although nothing guarantees the victory of one side over the other, the passive observers and the naïve narrators of the new, exasperating stage that the conflict took seem to be impotent witnesses and therefore unwilling accomplices in a human calamity that can turn far worse for all.

Brainlessly, pathetically, and deplorably, different governments, organizations, groups of countries, mass media, and -worst of all- independent scholars, specialists, and intellectuals find the occasion propitious to reiterate their preferences, choices, desires and ideas, which are -all- the invariable reasons of the trouble, and of its deterioration. People fail to understand that, before they speak about the problem, they have created it, due to their own inaccurate thoughts, misperceptions, biases, prejudices, errors, oversights, omissions and calamitous acts.

Before taking position and prior to siding with one or the other part of the conflict (which is the case of most people and governments), all the participants of the trouble and all the external commentators and intricate analysts fail to realize that they are part of the problem, they contributed to it and to its misperception, and they failed to take the necessary distance to see things from far in order to thus better assess the reality and identify innovative approaches and inventive solutions, which could reduce the incommensurable collateral damages that constitute the Palestine-Israel conflict’s worst aspect.

Is it possible for Kazakhstan, a historical nation that always managed to maintain the balance of power between the Dzungar Mongolians, the Chinese, the Russians and the Uzbeks, and for President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, a career diplomat and a consummate statesman, to help resolve the Palestinian-Israeli problem now that it takes a most menacing appearance?

Many people do not know that in the past President Tokayev served as Under Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Conference on Disarmament (2011-2018). Apparently, this is an indication that he may be successful in areas where others failed or were simply discredited.

Is it possible to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

The answer to this question hinges on the balance one can establish between perception, knowledge and understanding of the problem from one side and realistic evaluation of the potential formula to resolve the problem once for all from the other side. Irrespective of the burden of the past, regardless of the vested interests to pull strings, and in spite of calamitous choices or unrealistic dreams that the main actors of the conflict may still harbor in their befuddled heads, there is always a way to make sense, a ground to meet reciprocal needs, a point to agree on, and an inherent ability to comprehend the vicinity of the disaster.

In order to find a reciprocally beneficial exit from the Palestine-Israel quagmire, one should first help the main factors of the problem (i.e. the two sides of the conflict) shape a common evaluation of the past and present facts, a shared perception of the lurking dangers, and a basic agreement on steps to make mutually.

I. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of common evaluation of past and present facts

Referring to ‘past and present facts’, I mean the period of the last 30 years that passed after the signature of the Oslo Accords (13 September 1993); it is essential to note that the recent terrorist attack undertaken by Hamas did indeed take place less than a month after the 30th anniversary of the Oslo I Accord. Major facts about which Israelis and Palestinians should form a common evaluation are the following:

1- the non-implementation of the Oslo Accords, the weakening of the authority of the Palestinian Authority, and the harsh treatment of ordinary Palestinians were entirely counter-productive and disastrous for both, Palestine and Israel;

2- the deliberate discrediting of the Palestinian Authority was a disastrous choice;

3- the support and/or promotion of Hamas was a calamitous decision;

4- the imprisonment of militants and politicians (like Marwan Barghouti), who would prevent Hamas from gaining support among Palestinians, was catastrophic;

*Marwan* *Barghouti, a popular Palestinian leader, gestures as Israeli police bring him into the District Court for his judgment hearing in Tel Aviv May 20, 2004*

5- the conviction of the Israeli governments and the Israeli people that the policies implemented and the attitudes expressed with respect to the Palestinians were correct proved to be entirely wrong;

6- every step toward a solution of the conflict must be made within the context of the International Law, with the support and the guarantee of the international body, in accordance with the Oslo Accords, and as continuation of the expectations created because of the said agreements;

7- every future negotiation between Israelis and Palestinians has to be carried out in appreciation of the overwhelming changes that took place worldwide over the past 30 years;

8- the nominal and the real support offered to Israel by its so-called ‘friends’ and ‘allies’ did not finally help the Jewish state to achieve safety, security, peace and non-aggression from the part of its declared enemies;

9- consequently, the new agreements must be signed by sincere and committed statesmen and representatives ready to accept an entirely different international context within which to successfully position the new, final and permanent agreement;

10- there cannot be any Israeli military victory over Hamas; the Israeli statesmen, who believe in or diffuse this delusion, must step aside.

First, material destruction does not provide moral victory and social peace.

Second, more innocent Palestinian victims die in Gaza, smaller the chances of a new agreement become.

Third, after a deep and long Israeli involvement in Gaza and following extraordinary bloodshed, terrible destruction of the material infrastructure, and unprecedented casualties for the Israeli army, the Israeli government will finally realize that, the top leadership of Hamas has escaped and -even worse- that there will then be even more Palestinians ready to fight (not for Palestine anymore but) for Hamas. At that very moment, the majority of the Israelis will start abandoning the country (Yerida), being absolutely sure of its inevitable unviability.

Is it necessary to reach that level in order to understand?

Most probably, not!

Instead, a national unity government in Israel now will help the country prepare for the necessary negotiations.

II. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of shared perception of the lurking dangers

It is now essential that both parts of the conflict shared the same perception of the existing, very serious, dangers that exist for both nations; they are as per below:

1- the Israeli government must assess very seriously the position in which it found itself, when the terrorist attacks of 7th October 2023 forced Israelis to understand the down-to-earth reality that surrounds them. In fact, Israel is not only entrapped in a situation that forces the local government to perpetrate a repugnant butchery in revenge of an unspeakable slaughter. The Jewish state is subtly pushed -in a most dexterous manner- to demonstrate incomparable cynicism, atrocious rage, and foremost inhumanity while appearing as the avenger of a monstrous crime. In other words, the sophisticated machination was geared in order to induce Israel to act in an impermissible manner, which deprives similarly acting states from any right to exist.

2- Israel’s hidden enemies, all those organizations and governments that guide the puppet states of Qatar, Iran and Turkey, expect the Israeli government to do exactly what most of the Israelis find as a logical and rightful response to the massacre perpetrated before 24 days. The lurking danger is that Israel, reacting in the way many Israelis and Jews at large desire, achieves nothing else than a high degree of self-deprecatory action, which would entirely discredit the Jewish state, thus irreparably damaging bilateral relations and international presence.

3- associated to the aforementioned situations is the risk of Israel taking distance from the international common sense and appearing as markedly distinct from the other nations in the evaluation of typical situations that occur worldwide; quite unfortunately, massacres and genocides do happen, either they become known and they are denounced or not. Consequently, the Hamas terrorist attack, albeit surely abhorrent, is not a unique case.

As it happens in similar circumstances, there is always discussion as to whether the attacks were triggered by earlier developments; it is only normal for humans to try to identify every time the beginning of the circle of violence. Were the Hamas attacks provoked by some reason? Were they unprovoked? These points were reflected in the UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council on the Middle East (“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.”) This sentence prompted the rage of the Israeli representative, but … are there truly “unprovoked” attacks?

4- the risks of Israel carrying out a mass murder in retaliation (no 1), discrediting itself (no 2), and looking distinct from the rest of the world (no 3) are not the only; sparring with the UN Secretary-General (or demanding that he quits, etc.) only plays into the game of Israel’s worst enemies who meticulously work in order to generate the image of a Jewish state totally isolated and cut off from the rest of the world. ‘The castaway’ is certainly not the model that Jews all over the world really intend to present as that of their state.

5- one of the worst dangers that can be produced due to the present explosive situation is the extreme radicalization of the Palestinians and the subsequent inability of the Palestinian Authority to negotiate with any Israeli representative. Israel does not have the power to throw all the Palestinians out of Palestine; it is therefore essential that all Israeli statesmen, parliamentarians, politicians, rabbis, academics, journalists and average people have no delusions in this regard. On the contrary, they must do their ingenious best to maintain the dialogue and to select among the Palestinians the most sound, balanced, reasonable and unbiased interlocutors.

6- trying to dissociate Hamas from the average Palestinians is a murky terrain and a foolish attempt; for instance, the speech that the Israeli Permanent Representative to the UN, ambassador Gilad Erdan, addressed to his counterparts started with the expression of the concept that Israel is not at war with all the Palestinian people, but “with the genocidal Jihadist Hamas terror organization”; however, only few minutes later, the rather confused speaker stated that the Palestinian people in Gaza were enthusiastically participating in, and fully rejoicing with, the spectacle that Hamas organized in the streets of Gaza with all the Israeli -maltreated- parading hostages (from 05:15 to 05:30: Israeli ambassador to the UN addresses General Assembly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tmepPKIJE). This is entirely inconsistent.

7- the dangers ensuing from the already started military operation in Gaza are considerable. This is perhaps subconsciously admitted by senior Israeli officials, who seem -these days- unable to understand what they are saying. The following is a statement made by the Israeli Defense Forces in the social media:

“Hamas’ terrorist headquarters under the Shifa hospital is draining the necessities—fuel, oxygen, water and electricity—from the Gazans and staff and using them for terrorism” https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1718203005231665657

My personal comment –response was the following:

“You just published the full proof of why such war is futile. You cannot win or you will win with an extremely high record of casualties; and then you will realize that the bulk of Hamas escaped and remains intact outside Palestine”.

The peril that Israelis kill an extremely high number of Palestinians without bringing substantive results is great; the menace of Israelis having thousands of dead in the military operations that they started undertaking in Gaza is real. And the danger of IDF causing indescribable destruction to Gaza and dreadful casualties in Israel without really exterminating Hamas is evident.

8- the perspective that the ongoing military operations will radicalize hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Africa and Europe is clearly visible; furthermore, the chances of turning moderate and reasonable governments to extremist and hostile administrations are high; even worse, the possibility that temperate statesmen are overthrown and then chaos prevails in several countries located in the wider region is strong.

The eventuality of a regional ordeal and the likelihood of the formation of a great number of actively anti-Israeli states from Algeria to Pakistan and from Kazakhstan to Tanzania cannot be possibly the wish of an Israeli government; only fanatic guys and paranoid plotters would be happy with the perspective of a generalized war between Israel and 15-20 countries situated between the Atlantic and China.

9- the probability that the worst enemies of Israel have framed the appalling recent developments and have entrapped the Jewish state in order to generate a frontal war between Tel Aviv and the Muslim World cannot be disregarded. After properly examining this scenario, the diverse Israeli statesmen, military, intelligence agents, diplomats, and other administrators will have to conclude that, in spite of all the guarantees that they may have got from potential friends and various allies, nothing can possibly justify a contemptuous downturn to nuclear war. There cannot be Israeli statesmen whose actions will ultimately ‘prove’ that the so-called ‘Albert Pike letter to Mazzini’ may be something more than a conspiracy theory. Consequently, an eventual massive confrontation with the Islamic world cannot be an option for any Israeli government.

10- while all the warring parts normally wish to attain victory, it is necessary for all wise statesmen and administrators to always examine every possible option, even that of a defeat. By all accounts, the effort to avert a downfall -by means of timely negotiations and constructive time schedules- is always to be praised at the end.

III. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of a basic agreement on Gaza Strip

The following steps are conditio sine qua non for the establishment of a free, independent, peaceful, and dignified society in the Gaza Strip:

1- the Palestinians and the Israelis have to agree on the permanent solution of the enduring conflict, advancing on the ‘land for peace’ approach (namely the UN Security Council Resolution 242). Palestinians shall have their land (West Bank and Gaza, linked by a highway bridge for cars, buses, long-vehicles, and trains) and Israelis shall have peace in their land – unquestionably, unwaveringly, and permanently.

2- the Palestinian state shall entrust the security of the national borders to a force set up by the UN and Israel; the internal security in Palestine will be the task of a statutory body, which shall be organized and trained by the respective Israeli organization, whereas it will be manned entirely by Palestinians.

3- within two years after the agreement is signed, the Israeli settlements in the West Bank shall be relocated to new agglomerations located in Israel. No Israeli settlement will be allowed in the West Bank and Gaza.

4- the entire population of Gaza shall be temporarily relocated for 3-4 years.

Rafah to Taba trench construction project

5- the border with Egypt from Rafah to Taba shall be entirely closed. An enormous Kazakh-Chinese-Indian-Israeli consortium of construction companies will be established and teams of Kazakh and Israeli workers will construct an enormous trench 100 m deep and 100 m wide, from coast to coast (Mediterranean Sea to Gulf of Aqaba: ca. 210 km). In this systematic manner, no subterranean passages between Egypt and Israel will be left undetected, unidentified and unblocked after the enormous construction project. It will be up to the Israelis whether they will later use the trench as an alternative passageway to the Suez Canal, duly completing the works for this purpose.

Gaza demolition project

6- the Israeli army, the Kazakh-Chinese-Indian-Israeli consortium, and additional teams of Kazakh and Israeli workers shall have two years to entirely demolish and remove all the existing structures on the surface of the earth and in the underground, without however destroying cultivated lands and fields for agricultural purposes. Every type of subterranean passages and structures will thus be totally eliminated. Only the historical buildings, churches and mosques will be spared.

Gaza reconstruction project

7- subsequently, a major project of Gaza reconstruction shall be undertaken by the Kazakh-Chinese-Indian-Israeli consortium, and the same teams of Kazakh and Israeli workers. Residential districts, roads and squares, hospitals, schools, municipality and administration buildings, universities and several research centers, shopping centers, malls, sports installations, cinemas and mosques, the harbor, train and bus stations, etc. shall be entirely reconstructed from scratch according to the provisions of a worldwide unprecedented project of urbanization.

8- following the partly completion of the Gaza reconstruction project, parts of Gaza Palestinian populations, which were temporarily relocated, shall return to their old-new homes. With the completion of the project, the totality of the local population will be accommodated in their new homes. Upon arrival, all Palestinians shall have to independently sign a text published by the Palestinian Authority, according to which they will publicly accept the existence of the state of Israel and the related agreements made by the Palestinian Authority.

9- the resumption of socio-economic, political, academic, educational and cultural life in the Gaza Strip shall be spearheaded by Kazakhstan, China and India; for this purpose, Kazakh, Chinese and Indian businessmen will enter in joint ventures will their Palestinian counterparts. Kazakh, Chinese and Indian administrators will help Gaza Palestinians better manage their affairs; Kazakh, Chinese and Indian doctors will man the new hospitals. Kazakh, Chinese and Indian universities shall offer advanced bilingual education (Arabic/Kazakh, Arabic/Russian, Arabic/Chinese, and Arabic/Urdu-Hindi respectively) to Palestinian students, thus setting the proper foundations of a Primary and Secondary Education totally free of Western impact.

10- the New Gaza Strip shall be an integral territory of the Palestinian state, which will be proclaimed in due course of time; it shall share common border with Israel, but not with Egypt. The Palestinian Basic Law will be used until the later elaboration and proclamation of a New Palestinian Constitution. Contacts with the West Bank will not be resumed immediately, taken into consideration the changes that the main part of the state of Palestine will have to undergo.

IV. Palestine-Israel: 10 points of a basic agreement on West Bank

Following the terrorist attacks of 7th October 2023, it would truly be inadequate and impertinent to believe that, by rectifying the chaos of Gaza, one can resolve the dire conditions of life, which prevail among all the Palestinians; yet, these conditions are the true reason of all the troubles, attacks, killings, and clashes. It is evident to all that the unrestrained deterioration of the situation in Gaza affected calamitously West Bank Palestinians.

1- due to the inability of the Palestinian Authority to cope with developments triggered by alien factors, religious extremism and Jihadist radicalization spread among West Bank Palestinians. This was utterly disastrous for both, Israelis and Palestinians. Because of this unfortunate development, if the aforementioned 10-point plan of basic agreement on Gaza Strip is materialized without a major change occurring in West Bank, the returning Palestinians, who will inhabit the New Gaza Strip, will inevitably be negatively impacted by West Bank Palestinian radicals.

2- on the other hand, it goes without saying that these two parts of the Palestinian national territory cannot be kept separated from one another; this means that, for the same security reasons for which the aforementioned plan (see above section III) was devised and implemented, another plan shall be also scheduled and carried out for the entire population of the West Bank. This will take another 3-4 years to be entirely accomplished.

3- after the return of the Gaza Palestinians is completed and following their final and peaceful settlement in the New Gaza Strip, the entire population of West Bank too shall be temporarily relocated for 3-4 years.

4- after the Israeli settlements in the West Bank will be evacuated, all the buildings and the overall urban infrastructure will be fully maintained, renovated, and renamed in order to be handed over to the West Bank Palestinians, when they will return after their temporary relocation.

5- Israeli army and scientific personnel shall undertake a comprehensive geotechnical and geophysical investigation, effectively using remote sensing techniques in order to thoroughly examine parts of the underground throughout the territory of the West Bank. This operation will make it sure that, once the Palestinian populations return, they will not find any structures that may enable smuggling, illegal activities, and warfare.

West Bank demolition project

6- As it was done in the case of Gaza, the Israeli army, the Kazakh-Chinese-Indian-Israeli consortium of construction companies, and the same teams of Kazakh and Israeli workers shall have two years to entirely demolish and remove all the existing structures on the surface of the earth, as well as those that may happen to be found in the underground. Only historical buildings, churches, mosques, museums and archeological sites will be spared. It goes without saying that cultivated lands and fields for agricultural purposes will not be damaged in any sense.

West Bank reconstruction project

7- similarly with what was carried out in Gaza, a project of West Bank reconstruction shall be undertaken by the Kazakh-Chinese-India-Israeli consortium, whereas properly renovated, the urban infrastructure of the Israeli settlements will be made available to West Bank Palestinians after they return from their temporary relocation. In addition, a highway bridge for cars, buses, long-vehicles, and trains shall link West Bank to Gaza whereas special underground tunnels may also be constructed for this purpose.

8- following the partly completion of the West Bank reconstruction project, parts of West Bank Palestinian populations, which were temporarily relocated, shall return to their old-new homes. With the completion of the project, the totality of the local population will finally return and they be accommodated in their new homes. Upon arrival, all Palestinians shall have to independently sign a text published by the Palestinian Authority, according to which they will publicly accept the existence of the state of Israel and the related agreements made by the Palestinian Authority.

9- as it may have already occurred in Gaza, the resumption of socio-economic, political, academic, educational and cultural life in the West Bank shall be actively spearheaded by Kazakhstan, China and India.

10- the New West Bank shall be an integral territory of the Palestinian State, which will be solemnly proclaimed after the completion of this project; it shall share common borders with Israel but not with Jordan, because a narrow strip 100 m wide will be delineated alongside the old borderline between West Bank and Jordan. This strip will belong to Israel, thus turning the Palestinian state into an enclave inside Israel; Israeli soldiers will be regularly patrolling there, but communication and transportation from and to Jordan will be made easy through Allenby/King Hussein border crossing. A similar scheme will then be devised for Gaza Strip/Egypt border passage. A New Palestinian Constitution will be passed by the Palestinian National Assembly, which will be elected by universal suffrage. Contact between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be resumed immediately.

V. Ten strengths that empower Kazakhstan to bring about the only effective peaceful resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict

The following points reveal the widely unnoticed but real and remarkable strengths of Kazakhstan, which position the major Central Asiatic country at the epicenter of the international life and enable Astana to play the key role in the desperately needed pacification of the 75-year old conflict:

1- Kazakhstan is a major Muslim country, member-state of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation; in this capacity, Astana can help enormously deflect the passions and divert the tensions caused throughout the Muslim World as regards Israel. This is a very crucial step, because it will prevent the ongoing war from becoming an open religious confrontation between Jews and Muslims across the Earth.

2- Kazakhstan is by far the largest Turkic nation with an area totaling 2725000 km2 and with an ideally central position between Western Turks (Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraqi Turkmeneli, etc.) and Eastern Turanians (Uighurs, Buryatians, Mongolians Yakutians, etc.). It can therefore bring a balanced understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to all the Turkic people (Turanians) throughout Eurasia, diverting fanaticism and extremism. This would be a remarkable contribution to peace.

3- As a secular and multicultural state, Kazakhstan is well positioned to see things differently, unconventionally, and out-of-the-box. On this ability hinges the chance that the entire Mankind has to resolve the problem. In fact, for 200 years, Islam and Christianity coexisted peacefully in Kazakhstan and more recently, after the fall of the USSR, adepts of different religions have lived in concord and fraternity with local atheists and irreligious people.

4- Muslim country with a ca. 20 percent Christian Orthodox minority, Kazakhstan has been a land where Judaism thrived for centuries; Bukharan and Juhuro (or Mountain) Jews live nowadays in Kazakhstan, peacefully practicing their faith and straightforwardly participating in all aspects of the socio-professional, economic and political life. Thanks to these undeniable facts, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is advantageously positioned to offer President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hindsight and forethought, alternative viewpoints, and hitherto unseen perspectives.

5- Founding member of the Shanghai Five (1996) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (2001), Kazakhstan is for Israel and Palestine the ideal ‘Gate to the East’. The same can be said about Kazakhstan’s participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Eurasian Economic Union. One should also extend this reference to approaches like ‘Connect Central Asia’ and initiatives like the ‘India-Central Asia Dialogue’, which bring Kazakhstan, the rest of Central Asia, and India closer. In other words, Kazakhstan, in striking contrast to almost any other country, is able to entirely de-contextualize the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, take it totally out of the nefarious limits of the Western World, and contextualize the problem within an entirely different environment in which hitherto unimagined possibilities and unsought alternatives are abundant.

6- Ninth largest country in the world in terms of area, Kazakhstan can effectively contribute to the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict not only at the level of diplomatic contacts, political negotiations, inventive considerations, resourceful approaches, and creative visions, but also during the consecutive stages that the resolution process will demand for several years. It is clear to all insiders that the 75-year old problem has become a most perplex issue involving contradictory views, opposite interests, conflicting demands, unjustified concerns, uncontrollable worries and total mistrust. Removing these obstacles is not an easy job for any diplomacy, for any proficient administration, and for any ingenious negotiator. Counterbalancing all the negative elements that have been accumulated over the past 7-8 decades will be a highly challenging task.

Still, the above mentioned thorny issues concern only the negotiation stages. But, brokering an agreement, addressing national security concerns, and satisfying demands of statehood and national independence, after all the evildoing that has occurred, involve massive relocation of populations, temporary residence in other lands, extensive demolition plans, vast construction projects, and -at the end- return of all the relocated populations.

Atop of all, one has to stress the need for a proper nation building process, which never occurred in the case of the Palestinians; the lack of this critical undertaking constituted a major reason for the misfortunate experience that Palestinians and Israelis shared together for decades, while being unable to solve the incessantly deteriorating problem.

However, it is not by coincidence that many Israeli statesmen, diplomats, analysts and academics repeatedly demand from Egypt to accept the relocation of the Gaza Palestinians to the sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula. It goes without saying that Cairo simply cannot accept this eventuality. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt was absolute right; it is not a matter of producing the necessary infrastructure or accommodating more than two million people or affording the exorbitant expenses for this enormous project or securing the necessary provisions or maintaining control among radicalized population. It is not even an issue of transporting populations to an arid land like North Sinai where Egypt has already and repeatedly faced serious security concerns due to the activities of Egyptian Islamists and terrorists.

The main problem, which would immediately arise after an eventual relocation of the Gazan population, is that, once in North Sinai, the deeply radicalized Palestinians will consider it necessary to take revenge on Israel for the atrocious and enduring treatment that the Jewish state applied to them. Then, they will certainly have the chance to contact numerous radicalized Egyptians among whom with great difficulty the al-Sisi administration managed to impose order, peace and calmness until now.

When the desperate, relocated Palestinians will express their secret desire to the Egyptians who lived -pretty much like their parents and grandparents- in an unprecedented paroxysm and in foremost hysteria against Israel, they will surely get from them the necessary tools, equipment, and weapons in order to attack Israel. An assault from the Egyptian side of the borders would soon transform the limited Israel-Gaza war into a generalized confrontation between Egypt and Israel, thus forcing the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to instinctively and unreservedly support Cairo.

Quite contrary to this infernal scenario, Kazakhstan -while leading the negotiations between Palestine and Israel- can temporarily accommodate the Gaza Palestinian populations in new cities, which can be constructed relatively fast with the help of a Kazakh-Chinese-Indian consortium that will be established on purpose.

7- Economically sound and solid, Kazakhstan -by establishing a major consortium of construction companies- will offer to China and India the chance to participate in the materialization of the forthcoming peace agreement between Israel and Palestine; in this manner, the two Asiatic superpowers will be actively brought to the forefront of international diplomacy, as they will be constructively involved in the world’s most enduring conflict.

Supporting Kazakhstan in the construction of the necessary urban infrastructure for the temporary relocation of the Gaza Palestinian populations, China and India will appear as the leading contributors to a major effort geared to bring peace in Israel-Palestine and as the principal sponsors of the most demanding projects involved in the successive stages of the agreement’s materialization.

Following the terms of an agreement signed by Palestine, Israel, and Kazakhstan, Astana can demarcate a piece of land in the southern confines of Aktobe Region and in the western fringes of Kyzylorda Region where to construct the infrastructure in which the temporarily relocated Gaza Palestinians will be accommodated; the same venue will be later used for the West Bank Palestinians. By strongly subsidizing the construction project and by facilitating the air transportation of the said populations, China and India will mark a major step in their transformation from leading regional powers to worldwide superpowers actively involved in the major conflict resolution.

8- Ostensibly located at the historical crossroads, which are known as the Silk Road, Kazakhstan can change World History due to a groundbreaking initiative to bring peace to Palestine and Israel entirely outside the context of the Western World. Duly relying on Central Asia’s historical background and the heritage of the Silk Roads, Kazakhstan can convincingly bring the Palestinians and the Israelis to the table of negotiations, brandishing the lure of future wealth, multicultural creativity, peaceful coexistence, and multilateral cooperation.

By reviving the multicultural environment that typified the Silk Roads, by re-introducing tolerance among religious faiths and cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis, and by offering SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Dialogue Partner status to both, Israel and Palestine, immediately after the signature of the pacification, land reorganization and rehabilitation agreement, Kazakhstan, China and India fully confirm the far reaching potentialities that the Belt and Road Initiative (One Belt One Road) infrastructure development strategy can have.

9- As the focal Oriental and Eurasiatic land, Kazakhstan has not only the potential to offer conflict resolution, peaceful cohabitation, and viable cooperation to Palestinians and Israelis; it also has the capability to become the country of first choice for many Jews who currently face an increasingly hostile environment in EU and the US. This will only increase the country’s credibility as the mediator par excellence between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as Jews and Muslims.

10- Thanks to Astana’s strong alliance with Russia, China and India, three major superpowers of today’s world, and following a peaceful resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict, Kazakhstan will apparently be in a position to launch a major debate within the Islamic world as regards the secular nature of the Islamic civilization and the nonpolitical role of the religion in the lives of people, thus helping Muslims from all the walks of life to emancipate from the darkness of the ignorant and radical imams who have deliberately confused religion with politics in order to extract material benefits, thus becoming the puppets of evil forces that spread enmity and killings.

First built in the 5th c. and rebuilt in the 12th c., the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza, which belongs to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, was attacked on 19th October 2023 during an Israeli air strike; the building was partly damaged and there were ca. 20 casualties.

VI. Ten pillars of Kazakhstan’s approach to the resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict

Pillar 1- The Western World failed to resolve the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Since 1947 (more specifically: 29 November 1947) and the UN Palestine Partition Plan {also known as UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (II)}, the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts were mostly a Western affair; USSR (or, after 1991, Russia), China, India, Indonesia, Africa, and Latin America played only a markedly marginal role in the problem that was created with the said partition plan. This fact is at the origin of all problems, crimes, killings, and massacres that occurred in Palestine/Israel.

Beyond the normal regional involvement (namely that of Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen), the developments that took place in Palestine were exclusively impacted by Western European and North American countries. This has the appearance of colonial interference and remotely exercised control; as such, it is overwhelmingly rejected by the vast majority of mankind.

Until 1956, Israel relied on France and England in order to fend off attacks from neighboring countries, which supported the Palestinians. After the disaster of 1956, Israel has been closely connected with the US. The ensued damage for the Jews and Israel was twofold; by creating the impression of a biased, partial, unilateral, and detrimental support uninterruptedly, unconditionally and unreservedly offered by the major Western countries to Israel, the Western countries deliberately generated a situation which galvanized the Palestinians, sensitized numerous Muslims within eschatological context, and garnered sympathy for Palestine across most of the world’s nations. If this concluded the case, one would eventually accept the development as positive, albeit vividly partial.

However, the unilateral support offered by the Western World did not bring peace, safety and security to Israel and to the Jews who find it necessary to settle there (the ‘Aliyah’); as we all know, this reality is greatly manifested these days. Suffice it to read brief texts published by Israeli scholars on this occasion; you can understand the extreme panic that they feel. Prof. Ayelet Gilboa’s ‘Hamas in Israel’ is a good example in this regard. But when the ‘Yerida’ (emigration from Israel) eclipses the Aliyah, the Marche Funèbre will sound, heralding the funeral arrangement for Israel. Then, all the people will realize that the Western support to Israel was fake, hypocritical and intentionally deceitful.

The irreversible truth is that the only thing Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and the Roman pseudo-popes intend to do to Jews and to Israelis is to eat them alive, incessantly highlighting their innocence in the matter. The sooner the Israelis and the Jews understand this fact, the better for them.

The Western World is not friendly to Israel; it is criminal, hypocritical and inimical. As it is well known, they produced innumerable genocides in America, Asia, Africa and Europe. The remake of the Holocaust will be at hand, if Israelis do not shut the door to US, UK and EU. There is only one condition for Israel to disintegrate: to continue believing the delusional concept of its alliance with the Western World. There is only one way for Israel and the World Jewry to effectively avoid the next Holocaust that secret orders, mystical societies, and major forces in Western Europe and North America prepare for them: they have to embrace the Orient where the Jews and the Ancient Hebrews have always lived, being integral part of the Ancient Oriental, Christian and Islamic worlds. Kazakhstan can make all this clear to Israeli leadership.

Pillar 2- At 75, Israel must emancipate and live like all the other nations, namely without protectors, biased supporters, and lethal allies.

The destructive device that the West has used to tarnish, corrupt and erode the Jewish state is precisely the unconditional support that the Western governments offer Israel. This makes the outright majority of the people worldwide hate that state; while systematically discrediting and effectively isolating Israel from the rest, the Western support appears to be always constant, generous and abundant. However, in spite of it all, Israel has always failed to truly eliminate the Palestinian problem; in true terms, the Jewish state has only exacerbated the thorny issue. One would have easily attributed it to an inherent self-destructive force, had one failed to identify the reason for this evildoing in the malignant forces of Western Europe and North America.

This absurd and sinister situation leads to only one conclusion: Israel does not have any Palestinian problem; quite contrarily, Israel has a Western problem. Everything will change astoundingly, if Israel gets rid of the nefarious impact of the West. When the Israeli government shows a sign that Israelis intend to live peacefully with their Palestinian neighbors without being the spoiled children of the West, the rest of the world will apparently demonstrate a different standpoint and attitude; then it will be possible for the major superpowers China, India and Russia to further advance the effort and initiate peace accords and normalization agreements with Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Israel will thus be saved.

Pillar 3- All security threats must be removed in peace prior to the final settlement

Kazakhstan shall fully demonstrate a deep understanding of Israel’s need for security and safety. All the nations have had their weak moments, but Israel now lives in the aftermath of an unusually painful experience, namely the 7th October 2023 attacks. The demand for invulnerability, impregnability, and unassailability is very strong. Therefore, for Israel every notion of settlement of the Palestinian problem means total elimination of the dangers. When it comes to the Gaza Strip, this means that the totality of the territory must be evacuated, the ruins explored, the underground traversed, the existing tunnels inspected, the structures destroyed, and the weapons removed. Consequently, it is inevitable that the entire territory of Gaza will have to be initially evacuated and totally demolished, before being fully reconstructed from scratch. Israeli soldiers and security forces will have to also inspect, scrupulously and meticulously, the return and the reinstallation of the Gaza populations, which have evidently to dwell for some time in another location.

These operations will certainly take about two years; during this period, while the Israeli military forces will be comprehensively screening the entire territory and the respective underground and effectively destroying all structures that have to be destroyed, the Palestinian population of Gaza must be treated in dignity, solidarity, compassion, empathy, fraternity, and humanity. That is why Kazakhstan shall take the initiative, positioning itself within the international community at the level in which the major Central Asiatic state’s strengths (see above section V) fully empower Astana to act.

Pillar 4- Temporary relocation of Gaza Palestinians is imperative

Promptly offering mediation between Israel and Palestine, Astana does not only save the lives of thousands of Palestinians, but also helps spare those of hundreds or thousands of Israeli soldiers and civilians, who will surely die as long as the war continues. For this to be done, a First Peace Agreement between Israel, Palestine and Kazakhstan shall be signed detailing the parallel processes, the various modalities, the successive stages, the duration thereof, and the indissoluble determination of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to reach a terminal agreement for ultimate peace and reconciliation.

Time shall be offered to Israel to clear the territory of Gaza Strip and to the Kazakh-Chinese-Indian consortium of construction companies to reconstruct the entire region from scratch; for this to be done, the same consortium shall first construct -in especially selected zones in Kazakhstan (see above section V 7)- all the necessary infrastructure for the entire Palestinian population of Gaza to be relocated there and temporarily accommodated.

In addition to the donations that an independent organization under the auspices of the UN shall be established to collect, it will be up to the Kazakh governmental authorities to also decide whether types of provisory employment should be offered to those among the relocated Palestinians who would wish to work; in this case, the diverse factories, plants, manufacturing units or workshops shall be constructed in the same zone as the urban infrastructure, and they shall be later (after the departure/return of the relocated Palestinians) used for other, Kazakh or foreign workers who will find employment there, contributing to the national GDP.

According to the terms of the First Peace Agreement between Israel, Palestine and Kazakhstan, an initial ceasefire shall be followed by the beginning of the relocation process which will cover several stages; finally, the entire population of Gaza shall be evacuated and temporarily relocated to Kazakhstan. It shall be decided whether the evacuation will be effectuated via Tel Aviv airport or El Arish International Airport (45 km from Rafah border crossing); in either case, special convoys will be set up to accompany the buses with the Gaza Palestinian evacuees, duly supervised by either Israeli or Egyptian military.

It will be entirely up to the hosting Kazakh authorities to determine the flight destination (eventually Kyzylorda International Airport or Aliya Moldagulova International Airport in Aktobe) and the transportation process to the final location where the Palestinian populations will be temporarily relocated and accommodated.

Pillar 5- Evacuation of all Israeli settlers from the West Bank

Following the terms of the First Peace Agreement between Israel, Palestine and Kazakhstan, and during the processes of a) Gaza infrastructure demolition, b) Gaza Palestinian population evacuation/relocation, and c) Gaza reconstruction, a national unity government in Israel shall initiate and carry out the next project, evacuating and relocating the Israeli settlers from the West Bank. This will be the first serious effort of Israel to persuade the international community about its good will toward the Palestinian Nation, its honesty as regards the surrounding neighbors, and its commitment to the final pacification process.

All Israeli settlers shall be gradually removed from the West Bank (see above section IV 4), but all the buildings and the overall urban infrastructure shall be effectively maintained, renovated, and renamed in order to be handed over to the West Bank Palestinians, when they will return after their temporary relocation. It will be truly essential -as a confidence building measure- for Israel to complete the evacuation of all Israeli settlers from the West Bank before the Palestinian populations of that land are temporarily relocated and accommodated in Kazakhstan, after the completion of the Gaza reconstruction project and the return of the earlier relocated Gazans.

Pillar 6- Reconstruction of Gaza

Following the process of Gaza demolition undertaken by the Israeli army and the evacuation/relocation of the entire Palestinian population, the Kazakh-Chinese-Israeli consortium, and additional teams of Kazakh and Israeli workers shall have two additional years before making the land of Gaza an enviable place for Gazan Palestinians to peacefully live and prosper (see above section III 7-10).

Pillar 7- Border control must stay with Israel

After the reconstruction of Gaza and the return of the temporarily relocated Gazan Palestinians, a totally new system of social-military-political life shall start. As I have already stated for the case of West Bank, the Gaza Strip will have no common border with Egypt (see above section IV 10). A narrow strip 100 m wide will be delineated alongside the old borderline between Gaza Strip and Egypt. This strip will belong to Israel, thus turning the Palestinian state into an enclave inside Israel; Israeli soldiers will be regularly patrolling there, but communication and transportation from and to Egypt will be made easy through Rafah border crossing.

Because of the aforementioned enormous trench that shall be constructed (see above section III 5: Rafah to Taba trench construction project) and thanks to the exhaustive demolition-reconstruction project in the Gaza Strip, conditions of absolute security will prevail across the borders, which will be entirely kept by Israeli soldiers, who will ensure border impenetrability for both, Palestinians and Israelis.

The State of Palestine will function as an entirely independent state with one seat in the UN General Assembly on the basis of mutual recognition with Israel. At the geographical level, Palestine will be an enclave within Israel; that’s why there will be minimal security forces (Palestinian and Israeli) in the ‘inner’ borders (between Palestine and Israel), whereas Israeli soldiers will guard the ‘outer’ (external) borders (with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon). Two airports (one in Gaza Strip and another in the West Bank) and one port (in Gaza City) will be fully operable in Palestine. Airport and port security in Palestine will be undertaken by Israeli security forces. In the beginning, there will be no flights from Palestine to countries that do not recognize Israel; later, this problem will be resolved.

Pillar 8- The processes applied to Gaza shall also be implemented in the West Bank

To complete the entire process and carry out a comprehensive investigation in view of a bright and peaceful future, Palestinians and Israelis shall agree to implement the same approach and apply the same procedure to the West Bank Palestinians. After all the Israeli settlements are evacuated from the West Bank and after the relocated Gazan populations return to their new old-new homeland, it will be the turn of the populations of West Bank to be relocated for 3-4 years, before returning to an entirely reconstructed homeland in which they will inherit the entire infrastructure left by the Israeli settlers.

Pillar 9- Mutual recognition of the two states – location of the two capitals

Following the completion of the aforementioned stages, the First Peace Agreement between Israel, Palestine and Kazakhstan (see above section VI Pillar 4) shall be replaced by the Final Peace Agreement, which will stipulate in detail the multiple exchanges and the bilateral cooperation that the two states will be ready to resume with one another. Except the signatories of the first treaty, the Final Peace Agreement will be co-signed by China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa. The capital of Israel shall be in Western Jerusalem, and the capital of Palestine shall be in Eastern Jerusalem.

Many confidence building measures and mutual understanding initiatives will be undertaken in order to enable the two nations to come closer to one another. Modern Arabic will become no1 foreign language in the schools of Israel, whereas Modern Hebrew will become no1 foreign language in the schools of Palestine. Kazakh, Chinese, Hindi and Russian will replace all the Western languages that were previously taught in the primary and secondary education schools in both lands.

Israel shall support Palestine’s demand of admission as a full member state in the UN General Assembly, and the two states shall pursue similar foreign policy, identical orientations, and concerted geostrategic decisions. Israel and Palestine will opt for the same major partners in economic synergy, joint ventures, trade, education, scientific cooperation, and tourism, notably Kazakhstan, China, India, Russia, Central Asia, SE Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Palestine will downgrade its participation in the Arab League, and Israel will gradually lessen its relations with NATO countries. Palestine will boost relations with secular Muslim countries, blocking contacts with Islamist regimes; acting reciprocally, Israel will ban from Israel all Protestants, and in particular the Zionist Christians, who proved to be the scourge of the Jewish state with their farcical and false interpretations of the Bible and their absurd eschatological schemes, which confused Israelis and Jews, pushing them to extreme and disastrous considerations.

Pillar 10- Simultaneous adhesion to the same military alliances, economic groups and international organizations

Following the implementation of the aforementioned Peace Plan and the successful fulfillment of the groundbreaking measures, the diplomacies of China, India and Russia will deploy a considerable effort to inflect the position of countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, demanding the dissolution of groups that threaten the pacification process and the ensuing peaceful cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis. This will open the way to further bilateral peace agreements, notably with Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.

This crucial fact is viciously disregarded and systematically concealed by the colonial Western powers and their local stooges; by trying to arrange ridiculous and clownish peace agreements between Israel, UAE and Bahrain, the US and their allies only tried to fool the Israelis, offering them meaningless normalization accords with countries, which would never make a war against Israel or support various anti-Israel groups. The notorious Abraham Accords (signed on 15th September 2020) are phony. They are true in the sense that the dictatorial rulers of UAE and Bahrain accepted to sign those papers, but they are as meaningless and useless for Israel as an agreement with Tuvalu and Nauru.

This is the anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish hypocrisy of the Western World at its best; it was quite stupid of the Israeli government to arrange and participate in festivities on the occasion of the Abraham Accords. What truly matters for Israel’s peace, safety and security is a normalization agreement with Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. But this is something that the criminal and dictatorial Western regimes of France, UK, Australia, Canada, Holland and the US first are unable to deliver and second do not want to see it happen. This is so because only a normalization accord and a peace treaty with Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran would guarantee Israel’s real survival. And quite contrarily to this eventuality, the inhuman monsters, which control Western Europe and North America, prepare the final solution for Israel and the Jews, while hypocritically smiling to and embracing the embattled Israeli prime ministers and presidents.

The simultaneous adhesion of Israel and Palestine to the same military alliances, economic groups, and international organizations, like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, the BRICS and the New Development Bank will definitely become the matter of preparatory negotiations as soon as the Final Peace Agreement will be solemnly signed offering both beleaguered nations peace, freedom, prosperity and freedom far from the ominous schemes of the Western World. The perspective of any future enmity and hostility will be thus reduced to nil.