President Trump announced Abraham’s agreements in 2020, which established formal links between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the greatest external achievements of his first term.
Now it follows his long desired goal for Saudi Arabia to join in agreements but may have only solved a serious failure for himself. Mr. Trump’s proposal to transfer all two million Palestinians from Gaza’s belt and then renew the enclave because “Riviera in the Middle East” antagonized some of the people who needed to seal the agreement.
The idea of gauze quickly rejected Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia. Powerhouse Gulf posted a statement before dawn immediately after Mr Trump floated a proposal on Tuesday night, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Washington.
The kingdom clearly cares that it stands on its request to first establish the Palestinian state before normalizing relations with Israel. Prerequisite, which Saudis have insisted on In the last year, it is “unmanageable and not subject to compromises”, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in statement on Wednesday.
The statement is directly contrary to Mr. Trump, who just told reporters in Washington da Saudi Arabia gave up prerequisites. An elderly Saudi royal royal said that the American leader would propose to be at the same time as “ethnic cleansing” of gauze.
Suggesting that he “cleanses” Gaza, Mr Trump earned a little, but doubt and anger in Arab countries. The efforts of the American administration soften the attitude, and the state secretary Marco ruined the Gazani that Gazani would only be temporarily moved, they did a little to pray them.
The issue of Palestinian statehood is at the center of controversy over Mr. Trump Gaza’s proposal. For many Arabs, the movement of Palestinians is anatem because it would spoil their hopes for an independent state.
Egypt and Jordan, the countries that Mr. Trump suggested that they could be convinced that they were taking Gazani, remained unwavering publicly that they would never accept the massive displacement of Palestinians. Officials, journalists and analysts in both countries said that history spoke to themselves: when Palestinians were forced from their homes, they were not allowed.
Since the Gaza war, both countries have taken over Palestinians who need medical help. Egypt accepted at least 100,000 medical evacuated persons and others who fled from neighboring enclave. Jordan, whose population of Palestinian origin is treated by dozens of injured people from Gaza.
But participating in any forced or permanent displacement of Palestinians from Gaza would be “moral and legally frightening,” said Abdel Monem Saied Aly, Vladine Egyptian political analyst and columnist.
Given the wide support of the Saudi population to the Palestinians, the government would be difficult to accept any agreement that does not deal with their pursuit of statehood. Public anger in the kingdom over the war, and now over the proposal of Mr. Trump emptied Gaza, complicated the prospect of an agreement with Israel, which would already be difficult to withdraw.
Before Mr. Trump assumed his duty for his second term, there was some reason for the modest optimism that the normalization of Saudi Israeli could move forward. AND cease-fire Between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas was reached on the eve of the inauguration of Mr. Trump on January 20th. And the new US president has encouraged a good employment with the capital Mohammed Bin Salman for years, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia.
But now, some stresses appear to appear in this relationship.
Prince of Turki al-Faisal, former chief of Saudi Arabia and former ambassador to the United States, said on Wednesday to CNN that Mr. Trump “will get a lead from leadership” not only about the lack of wisdom in what he proposes, but also injustice ” ethnic cleansing. “
As if he was underlines his point, he wore a Palestinian black and white proven kaffiyeh Instead of his traditional white blankets.
Four Arab governments that signed Abraham contracts – The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan – did so despite the criticism that they had given up on what had been an Arabic prerequisite for anything to do with Israel for decades, establishing the Palestinian state.
When Bahrain and Emirates became the first two nations signed by the agreements, the President of the Palestinian Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, called him a “sting in the back of the Palestinian people.” Mr. Abbas manages parts of the western coast of the occupied Israeli.
After 15 months of war in Gaza, the outraged Arab public is now unlikely to accept similar compromises, and the Israeli government led by Mr. Netanyahu firmly opposes Palestinian statehood.
“If normalization with Saudi Arabia depends on the progress to the Palestinian state, even a millimeter, it will not happen. The period,” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel quoted Israeli military radio last month.
The Saudis was sitting historical signature From Abraham’s agreements, but when the contract spread to Morocco and Sudan, the Saudi Crown Prince called Israel a “Potential ally” In an interview 2022 for the Atlantic.
In September 2023, the Crown Prince became the first leader of the Kingdom to open openly about the possibility of establishing a relationship with Israel in Defense pact With the United States and assistance in the development of a civil nuclear program. He did not mention Palestinian statehood as a state.
In an interview with Fox News at the time, the Crown Prince said that such an agreement would require “a good life to the Palestinians.” Indications then indicated the possibility that Saudi Arabia could also be ready to reduce its insistence on the Palestinian state before establishing ties with Israel.
Then came the attack of a Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed. The 15-month-old Israeli military campaign that followed was killed by more than 46,000 people in Gaza, according to local health officers, who do not distinguish civilians and fighters. The war was devastated by densely populated and impoverished territory.
Since the war, the Saudi government has moved its tone, saying that the region must be irreversible to the Palestinian statehood.
“We have some red lines,” said Prince Khalid Bin Bandar, a Saudi ambassador to the UK, said late last month. “And in order to end the last 75 years of pain and suffering caused by one problem, it must include the Palestinian state.”
It is possible that both Mr. Trump and Saudi leadership set up maximum views as a starting point in negotiations and that they will move at some point to achieve a compromise.
Many people in four countries that normalized ties with Israel are terrified of the war in Gaza and have publicly protested Accord. Although freedom of association and installation remained very limited in Bahrein, the government allowed protests.
Although Egypt and Jordan have had peacekeeping contracts with the Israelis for decades, their public has never warmed up in Israel, and the relationships were seriously strained.
Egyptian officials said this week with foreign diplomats in Cairo that their rejection of the displacement of Gazan was unwavering. In the public, they reiterated that Egypt was focused on placing an agreement on the termination of fire into force and providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians there.
Egypt “confirms its complete rejection of any proposal or concept aimed at removing the Palestinian cause by exploiting or displacing from its historical homeland and seizures, whether on a temporary or permanent basis,” Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.
Political analysts close to governments in Egypt and Jordan have suggested that the leaders of the two countries try to convince Mr. Trump to accept an alternative plan for a gauze recovery that involves help and help from their countries.
“Egypt and Jordan were historically involved in the Palestinian matter and they must be an integral part of any solution,” said Khaled Okash, director of the Egyptian Thought and Strategic Studies Center, Think Think Think, aligned with the Government. “But not the one Trump suggests.”
Fatima Abdulkarim Contribution to reporting from Ramallah, on the west coast.
