As the international community considers political scenarios for the future of the flattened Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he wants “something else” rather than Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority to take over the enclave after the war.

“There cannot be an authority there under the command of someone who, more than 30 days after the massacre (as of October 7), has not yet condemned it (…) There must be something else over there ( s.s. in Gaza). But in any case, there should be our own control in the field of security,” the Israeli prime minister said in a televised speech.

“We need full control of the security sector, with the ability to come in whenever we want to flush out terrorists who might re-emerge,” he insisted.

Yesterday, the US Secretary of State presented the key points of the US plan for the next day’s plan in Gaza.

Blinken argued that the US has assembled a set of “basic principles” that will guide the postwar peace effort: not violent displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. not using Gaza as a platform for terrorist attacks against Israel; no reduction in Gaza territory and commitment to Palestinian-led governance for Gaza and the West Bank, in a unified manner.

However, the Israeli president defied his American ally with his statements.

“TheIsraeli army to remain in Gaza ‘as long as necessary’ to prevent the enclave from being used for terrorist attacks against Israel,” Netanyahu stressed, despite opposition from the Biden administration.

In any case, he clarified, “no international pressure, no false claims about the soldiers of the IDF and about our state,” will affect Israel’s insistence on protecting itself.” Israel will “stand firm against the world if necessary,” he said.

“The next day Gaza will be demilitarized, there will no longer be a threat from Gaza to Israel. The October 7 massacre proved conclusively that in any place whose security is not controlled by Israel, terror will return. This has been confirmed in the West Bank,” Netanyahu said, referring to the occupied territories where the Israeli army has multiplied its operations in the past month, reaching into the heart of cities theoretically controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

“There will be no political power that will teach its children hatred of Israel, hatred of Israelis,” Netanyahu continued.

The Palestinian Authority and Israel accuse each other of teaching violence and hatred or demonizing each other in their school curricula.