“The message is going to be very clear: We need to see a viable two-state solution plan, a road map that is serious before we talk about the next day and rebuilding the infrastructure of Gaza,” UAE Ambassador to the UN Lana Nusseibeh told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
The remarks seem to be an apparent response to comments made Monday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told a top Knesset panel that the UAE and Saudi Arabia would finance the Gaza Strip’s reconstruction, even as he continues to reject a return of the PA to the enclave as well as the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Nusseibeh said: “The road map is: the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority and a grouping of countries that have leverage on the both of them sitting around the table and saying, ‘That’s the endgame we’re going to work to. The work starts here. This is the timeline, and it starts now.’”
The Emirati envoy said Egypt, Jordan and several other Muslim-majority countries should also be part of the effort, along with European powers. READ MORE