SMOTRICH / STROCK / BOARD OF PEACE
"The statement by the heads of the Board of Peace is completely contrary to this understanding. In fact there is here an attempt to advance the "roadmap" again in contradiction to the understandings."
"Even after full demilitarization of the strip, no reconstruction will be carried out in areas that threaten our communities." — — the same letter, Smotrich and Strock to Netanyahu, September 27
September 23, at the UN: the Board of Peace publishes a six-month recovery framework — $2.45 billion, 66 costed programs, shelter and debris and water and hospitals and schools, phased district by district as each area disarms. No start date. The money is not raised. September 27: two security cabinet ministers send Netanyahu a letter demanding he declare publicly that it will not be implemented, because reconstruction, foreign forces and any IDF withdrawal were supposed to wait for the complete demilitarization of the entire Strip. They add that the cabinet approved 200 ISF personnel and the plan starts with 500, and that rebuilding all 365 square kilometres is "unthinkable." Read their own conditions together and there is no plan that could ever clear them: full disarmament first, and then a veto on any area they judge threatening. This is entry #41 with a budget attached. The escalation is not in who objects — it is the same two ministers, the same instrument, five weeks later — it is that the thing being blocked now has line items, which is the moment donors either move or don't. Meanwhile the prime minister holds 60% of the territory and says he is not leaving, and the American document says work starts "as soon as funding and access allow." Three positions, one outcome, nobody obliged to defend it.