Clearly, there is no way of knowing how the Middle East might have looked had the Gaza proposal been accepted, no way of knowing the impact its acceptance would have had on subsequent events.
Addressing the summit of the Economic Community of West African States in June 2017 the first non-African leader to do so then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly declared, "Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is coming back to Israel."[1]
Recently declassified Israeli Foreign Ministry documents reveal deep Israeli military ties with Burma, now known as Myanmar, and its significant role in the brutal massacre against the Rohingya Muslim.