The road to the second stage is more important than reaching it!

Perhaps the cost of lingering among the hills of rubble, the wind lashing at tents, and the spread of epidemics and diseases, is much higher than the cost of the ambiguity surrounding the roles and tasks that will be undertaken by the committee tasked with managing Gaza, which is holding its first meetings today in Cairo to announce the commencement of its work.
There is no disagreement on the names, whatever their orientations, as all of them are national figures who have previously undertaken tasks and roles in successive governments. However, there are anxious questions that need answers, which appeared in the welcoming statement of the Authority, regarding references, scenarios, and caution against the dangers of fragmentation, duality, disintegration, dispersion, and separation between agencies and institutions in one homeland, and the fear of “permanent temporary.”

There are many entitlements that should pave the way for the path of suffering that the technocrat committee is taking by dismantling the mines of pretexts created by the “Likud wolf” to evade the entitlements of withdrawal from the yellow line to the red, removing rubble, starting reconstruction, and opening the Rafah crossing in both directions. Today, we will hear from Netanyahu a flood of caveats that will pose obstacles to the start of the new phase, foremost among them the body of the last soldier, “Ran Gooli,” and the weapon of “Hamas.”

Between the hammer of the harsh living conditions of the displaced and the anvil of oppressive Israeli conditions, the committee's task seems almost impossible in the absence of clear references and firm international guarantees. The lesson is not in forming the committee but in its ability to be a link, not a break, and to build a bridge for crossing towards unity, sovereignty, and the establishment of a state. The first obstacles were at the Karama crossing yesterday, by obstructing the travel of the head of the committee and the official in charge of its security file to Cairo, before they were allowed to leave after a delay of several hours.