The plan refers to “technocratic transitional governance” for Gaza
The Abraham Shield: Israel’s New Blueprint for Regional Control After Gaza
From Gaza to Tehran, a multi-front strategy of surveillance, subcontracted occupation, and permanent containment.
A New Name for an Old Strategy
As the latest Gaza ceasefire teeters into effect and Trump pushes for Saudi-Israeli normalization, Israel’s security establishment has unveiled its next regional blueprint: the Abraham Shield Plan .
Framed as a utopian vision for Middle East stability, the plan is being sold as a solution to hostages, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran all at once. Behind the think-tank language of “stability” and “security,” though, lies a familiar reality: a militarized, U.S.-backed strategy to consolidate Israeli control across Gaza, southern Lebanon, Syria, and the broader region.
Launched by a new Israeli lobbying group called the Coalition for Regional Security , the Abraham Shield lays out a multi-front containment architecture. It blends old tools—airstrikes, blockades, occupation—with new ones: technocratic governance models, digital surveillance, economic isolation, and transactional diplomacy with Arab states.
Tellingly, the plan’s rollout isn’t limited to quiet policy briefings. It has a polished website, billboard campaigns inside Israel, and polling data explicitly linking its goals to the Trump administration’s return to power. Netanyahu’s government is now pairing the language of peace with the machinery of war—offering hostage returns and regional diplomacy as the selling points for a project that, at its core, aims to redraw the map of the Middle East.