In a new publication for the National Security Journal, Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs Ambassador (ret.) Gordon Gray examines strategic voids in the Board of Peace (BoP) following its February 19 inaugural meeting.
"The Board Of Peace Has A Hamas Problem," illustrates that despite the International Stabilization Force (ISF) that was authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and is spearheaded by Major General Jasper Jeffers, significant friction remains regarding the disarmament of Hamas. With a $53 billion funding gap for Gaza’s reconstruction and a lack of interoperability between troop-contributing nations like Indonesia, Morocco, and Kazakhstan, the article questions whether a “credible pathway to statehood” can survive the administration’s centralized governance model.
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