Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s visit to Washington helps repair damage to the relationship caused by the embattled Israeli PM.
As the Israel-Gaza war grinds on, the political jockeying in Israel is growing more intense, testing the survival skills of the wily but increasingly embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.to Israel. But the bomb was defused this week by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who visited Washington for talks that both Israeli and American officials told me resolved the problem..
The least visible, but perhaps most important, subject Gallant discussed during his visit was a detailed plan for postwar transition in Gaza. This plan would go forward even if Hamas continues to reject the cease-fire and hostage-release proposal the administration has struggled for months to advance.
U.S. officials told me they support the thrust of Gallant’s plan, but that moderate Arab governments won’t back it unless the Palestinian Authority is directly involved, conferring what Arabs would see as legitimacy. They also caution that moderate Arabs want what the Saudis have called a “political horizon” toward an eventual Palestinian state, something Gallant says he and most Israelis won’t support.
Gallant also discussed the Biden administration’s efforts to avert a war between Israel and Lebanon. Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, the National Security Council’s top Middle East officials, have hammered out a truce deal for Lebanon that officials say could be implemented as soon as there’s a cease-fire in Gaza.
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