The Gaza Strip seems very poorly served by the Palestinian Authority, let alone Israel. But, the area has relatively stable borders and it would likely have a stable government in Hamas. So, what if Gaza just declared independence as the government with sole control over the Gaza Strip?
Would Gaza get recognized by other countries? Could it parlay the recognition into forcing a permanent peace with Israel as becoming a recognized country puts Israeli treatment of it into more known sections of international law?
I’m not an expert in middle eastern politics.
My uninformed take is that if the Gaza Strip was to self organize as a state, they will implicitly recognize Israel as a state as they will have to decide on borders.
Being unrecognized allows the Palestinian authority to claim all the former Palestinian land as their own.
Yeah, but I’m also saying that the government in Gaza would not be the Palestinian Authority, but something else. The recognition of Israel would be problematic given local politics, but I don’t see Palestine pushing all of Israel out.
I don’t see Palestine pushing Israel back an inch. They just launched their biggest assault in 50 years and all they achieved was killing a bunch of civilians. As far as I can tell they hold no territory outside of Gaza and it’s only been a couple of days.
Edit: Reuters is reporting there are still some Hamas fighters holed up in Israeli territory but with no realistic means of resupply or relief it’s only a matter of time before they’re dead.