Scare quotes mine. This is all about process, not progress. President Trump gave them an opportunity to make things happen, but they prefer talking pointlessly.
[IsraelTimes] With disarmament talks stalled, committee of Palestinian technocrats tasked with replacing Hamas remains outside Strip, attending workshops on how they’ll govern if or when they enterRepresentatives from the various US-led Board of Peace bodies involved in the postwar management of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
are meeting this week in Cyprus, as they seek to prepare a committee of Paleostinian technocrats for entering the Strip in order to replace Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...as governors of the war-ravaged enclave.
While an Arab diplomat from one of the mediating countries and a Paleostinian official familiar with the matter characterized the Cyprus gathering as an opportunity to "recalibrate" the initiative after a rocky first six months, a Board of Peace official insisted last week that the meeting would be routine and that the process is largely moving along according to plan.
Indeed, the Board of Peace held a previously unreported additional workshop last week at the Egyptian coastal town of Ain Sokhna, which was attended by the entire panel of Paleostinian technocrats, formally known as the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG).
The NCAG was unveiled in January — along with several other Board of Peace bodies — and its dozen-plus members subsequently moved from Gaza and the West Bank to a hotel in Cairo, where they have been readying plans for replacing Hamas. The terror group led the October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in southern Israel, sparking two years of war.
While no date was ever announced for when the NCAG would enter Gaza, one member of the panel acknowledged mounting frustration, saying that they did not expect the transition to be as lengthy as it has been.
The NCAG member spoke on condition of anonymity, as the US-controlled Board of Peace has barred members from speaking to the media. NCAG chief commissioner Ali Shaath did a small number of interviews shortly after his appointment, but since then has largely avoided the public eye.
The Board of Peace’s Gaza envoy Nickolay Mladenov has insisted that the main obstacle preventing the NCAG from entering Gaza is Hamas’s refusal to give up its weapons.
A diplomat from each of the Mideastern mediating countries — Egypt, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, and
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
— acknowledged that Hamas has sought to drag out negotiations on the issue. However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
they also argued that Israel’s refusal to adhere to the terms of the first phase of the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire has posed a major obstacle as well. They added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has been increasingly uncooperative as the fall Knesset elections approach and that there is little hope for a breakthrough until after that vote is held.
In the meantime, NCAG members hold frequent meetings with foreign diplomats in Cairo and have undergone several training sessions run by senior Board of Peace official Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change government consulting firm (TBI).
Blair himself, along with roughly eight TBI staffers, is slated to participate in the Cyprus "strategic workshop" running from Tuesday to Thursday.
The Times of Israel revealed earlier this month that Blair has taken on a larger role in the Board of Peace, given the quantity of resources that his institute is able to provide.