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Gaza Reconstruction: Can Norway and Qatar help bring Hamas to the negotiations table?

Abstract Norway and Qatar could help defuse future conflicts between Israel and Hamas by establishing an expert advisory group that could consult with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Israel on how to develop a strategic roadmap in order to prevent the all too familiar on-and-off conflict pattern between Israel and Hamas.

Sigurd Neubauer
Gaza Reconstruction: Can Norway and Qatar help bring Hamas to the negotiations table?
A destroyed ambulance in Shujaiyya in the Gaza Strip, August 6, 2014. (Boris Niehaus)

Abstract

Norway and Qatar could help defuse future conflicts between Israel and Hamas by establishing an expert advisory group that could consult with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Israel on how to develop a strategic roadmap in order to prevent the all too familiar on-and-off conflict pattern between Israel and Hamas. Qatar could play an indispensable leadership role by helping to secure clean water access for Gaza’s impoverished population by coordinating with Israel to bring in urgently needed supplies while at the same time attempt to negotiate a long-term truce between the two opposing parties.

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Sigurd Neubauer

is a former non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

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