I saw an interesting take on this from JNS news here:
- YouTube
In a nutshell Israel is hoping to replace Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (which are both terrorist groups, one in Gaza primarily, the other in the "west bank".
With the old form of Arab self govt on a village by village basis involving the tribal family leaders.
Apparently Hamas and the PLO murdered a lot of these "rivals". Originally they would rule their little village and if Israel wanted to come in and arrest someone, or deal with a problem, they would show respect and go to the tribal leader and everything would work as well as it could.
This may actually be something that doesn't give land away, but replaces the Palis and Hamas with a lot of little tribal leaders, kind of like dealing with individual towns- the mayor doesn't "own" the land, but he is part of the govt structure- elected here in the West, but in Arabic culture this was the tribal leader.