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For weeks, Arab leaders were eagerly awaiting to evaluate that US President Donald Trump would respond to the largest crisis in the Middle East in decades, cautiously according to his unpredictability, his lack of understanding of the complex region and his inconsistent pro-exhausted bias.
But no one in their craziest dreams would expect an extraordinary, surreal proposal that he discovered the stunned world when he took the stand in the White House on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.
He is not satisfied with the advocate of forcibly permanently relocating more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, Trump has dramatically increased his roles, announcing that they have planned the United States Download the surrounded stripe – And to use the US army if necessary.
The idea is so unusual that there will be temptations to reject it even more Trump’s craziness. This would violate international laws that have long sought to be advocated and supported. Would risk the American troops back to the fight in the Middle East – something Trump He undertaken to avoid.
It would outlaw the Arabic allies of Washington, his European partners and a global south. American tormented credibility would take over another dive. This would cancel the chances of Trump’s dream to provide a great offer – and his desire to secure the Nobel Peace Prize – by an agreement that would lead to Saudi Arabia and other Muslim states that normalize relations with Israel.
And would create another disaster for the long -lived Palestinians who were called generations called Gauze home. Where would you go? No one knows. No Arabic land would dare to accept them and see that the transmitter of a forced shift of his Palestinian brothers.
The bitter heritage of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes or fled to the fight that followed Israel’s founding, remains raw in the Muslim world. The Palestinians call it a nakba, or a disaster, and many are gazed descendants of displaced.
No one in the region – with the exception of the far right of Israel – can make repetition.
Still, this is Trump, Mogul Real Estate and former host of reality games, who has already threatened to capture Panama channel and take over Greenland.
He seems to have been looking at the Middle East for a long time with his own prism of projects for arrangements and real estate, to which he persistently pro-Israeli ankolite, who surrounded himself in his new administration, and Netanyahu, who presided over the shortest of his own government in Israel’s history.
A year ago, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son -in -law, and formerly the Middle East East Advisor, spoke of the “property along the shore” Gaza, saying that it could be “very valuable”.
On Tuesday, the President said he imagined that impoverished, broken, densely populated, narrow Mediterranean lane could be “Riviera of the Middle East”.
“We will develop it, we will create thousands of thousands of jobs and it will be something that the whole Middle East can be very proud.”
Netanyahu barely concealed a smile as he stood by Trump, praising the most praise president in the US history for “thinking outside the box.”
“I think that could change history,” Netanyahu said.
Ever since Israel launched his thunderous offensive in Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, Palestinians and their Arab neighbors feared that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu was to make a non -existent comic book and ride Gazana from their country.
The Minister of the far right in his government talks openly about the need to move the Israel’s tape withdrawn from two decades ago. Now they seem to have the most powerful leader in the world in their corner.
The addressed Arabic leaders are hoping that Trump’s proposal will be part of some opening of gamboo or negotiation of a chip in their plans for mediation of a wider agreement that would lead to Saudi Arabia to agree on formal diplomatic ties with Israel.
In his first term, Trump leaned the so -called Abraham’s agreements, transaction contracts that led to the United Arab Emirates and three other Arab states that normalized ties with Israel. And he made it clear that he wanted to expand that success in foreign policy.
But the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has repeatedly said that this can only happen if there is an establishment of the Palestinian state, which includes Gaza and the occupied West Coast.
Many in the Arab world hope that Prince Mohammed will be able to rely on his relationship with Trump, and the influence that Saudi Arabia could retain in providing a “big drive” to overwhelm his wildest policies.
Riyadh was unusually fast and emphasized in his Rejection of forced displacement of Palestinians on Wednesday. The Kingdom leaders are cautious about the anger that Singra in the region as the whole generation of young Arabs – the main constituencies of Prince Mohammed – watched Aghast as Israel has swallowed Gaza in the past 14 months.
The pressure will be on the Saudis and their Arab partners to convince Trump of the accident that his scheme risks.
What Trump intentionally does not understand is that for all devastation, poverty and suffering, Gazani are proud to call the lane their home. It is an integral part of their identity – a country where their children were born and grew up, where they buried their loved ones and stoically built and restored lives through the cycles of conflict. They want to continue their life in peace, not once again.
