Finding themselves in the covered cross of the President Trump, Jordan and Egypt, they move at speed – and uncertain prospects for success – to distract him, replied and replied and replied from forcing Palestine from Gaza’s belt.
For two Arab governments, which Mr. Trump’s proposal consider to take two million Palestinians as an existential threatIt seems that the strategy is to market the US president with offers to work together to renovate Gaza, bring peace to the region and expand the efforts for humanitarian aid. This could help them buy time, analysts say – perhaps enough for Mr. Trump to reject the idea as too complicated or to recognize the strategic and security shortcomings of destabilization two closest allies of the United States in the region.
Jordan’s King Abdullah employed a reconciliable tone in his meeting with Mr. Trump on Tuesday at an oval office, saying his country will take 2,000 Palestinian children with cancer and other Gaza diseases. Still, otherwise he did not give any country to the question of resetting multiple gazans and later repeated Jordan’s refusal of a plan in a statement of social media.
Jordan has been treating some patients with Gaza cancer for months, making more tokens offering than a real concession. But Mr. Trump called it a “beautiful gesture.”
Other world leaders discovered this flattering Mr. Trump seeks to help them go. King Abdullah seemed to follow their example on Tuesday, praise the president as “someone who can take us over the goal in order to bring stability, peace and prosperity to the Middle East.”
Even while the king pushed in the post against Mr. Trump to clarify to reject the massive displacement of Palestinians, he noted that the United States had a key role. “Reaching only peace based on a two -country solution is a way to provide regional stability,” he said in the post. “This requires leadership.”
Egypt also said that he wanted to cooperate with Mr. Trump on “achieving comprehensive and righteous peace in the region, achieving a fair settlement of the Palestinian cause,” Egyptian states statement Posted later on Tuesday.
However, the statement did not mention participation in Mr. Trump’s proposal and reiterated the view of Egypt that peace could only be achieved by the statehood of the Palestinians. Palestinians and many other Arabs rejected the proposed forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, not just as ethnic cleansinga war crime flying before international lawbut also as the death of the knees because of his long dream of the Palestinian state.
Instead, Egypt asked to serve an alternative plan for Mr. Trump, saying in a statement that he would “present a comprehensive vision of renewing the Gaza belt in a way that ensures that the Palestinian people remain in their homeland.” The Palestinian administration joined her own plane to help Gazi recover from the war on Wednesday.
In recent days, as the alarm is being set up in Cairo because of the president’s idea, Egyptian officials have emphasized that Egypt is ready to help the gauze renewal, with which he shares a vital border crossing, as he did after the previous conflicts there.
The Egyptian Tynd of Real Estate, Hisham Talaat Moustafa, who, like Mr. Trump, developed a chain of residential real estate and hotel, went to the evening show on Sunday to make a $ 20 billion proposal to build 200,000 residential units in Gaza, as he tries to try to talk to Mr. Trump programmer programmer.
But Mr. Moustafa, who is closely related to the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, said he had imagined the reconstruction of Gaza without any Palestinians from the railway.
During the meeting on Tuesday, King Abdullah also all accounted for the need to consult Egypt and other Arab countries before responding to Mr. Trump’s proposal, mentioning the upcoming meeting in Riyadh with the capital Mohammed bin Salman from Saudi Arabia. Egypt also called for the Summit of Arab leaders to talk about the issue in Cairo on February 27.
Despite his return from Egypt and Jordan, Mr. Trump seems to hold on to the core of his proposal outside the left field for the United States to “own” Gaza and rearrange him into “Riviera” for tourism and jobs. During the meeting on Tuesday with King Abdullah and his son, Crown Prince Hussein, he said he would “have a gauze” and “we will take him.”
But it seemed to mitigate his previous threat cut funding Jordan and Egypt, the two of the best recipients help us if they did not accept Gaza Palestinians, saying, “We are above that.”
Mr. Trump also suggested to watch a wider group of countries that could accommodate Gazani. “We have other countries that want to get involved,” he said, and when the journalist asked if two of these countries could be Albania and Indonesia, he replied, “Yes, of course.” (The leaders of both countries rejected any such possibility.)
Experts in the Middle East say that Mr. Trump seems to ignore the previous American calculations about the importance of stability in Egypt and Jordan, the Arab neighbors of Israel who both made peace with Israel years ago and cooperated closely with the United States in security issues.
“The way he talks about these relationships is like these countries have noted that we pull out very little from them,” said Brian Katulis, an older colleague of the Middle East Institute who focuses on Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians.
In fact, many advocates of human rights and critics of Egypt have questioned how much wise investment in Egypt, quarrel To match a repressive regime that often goes against American interests. But analysts say that the cooperation of Egypt, and especially Jordan on regional security, is valuable for the United States.
Egypt, which receives $ 1.3 billion a year in US military assistance to buy weapons, making it the second largest primaters of such financing after Israel, cooperated with the United States for efforts against terrorism.
For decades, Jordan was the entrance of the United States to the Middle East, hosted by the US military base and a large central station for intelligence agencies and acted as a diplomatic center. Like Egypt, the Jordanian monarchy divides the American view of militant Islam as the main threat and supported the United States in its fight against Al Kaida and then the Islamic State, among other common enemies.
When Iran targets Israel with missiles and drones last year, Jordan also helped Shoot some of them down.
Jordan was “with an American locking step,” Mr. Katulis said.
Egypt and Jordan accepted Palestinian refugees after being displaced during the 1948 war, which surrounded the creation of the state of Israel, and Egypt now took at least 100,000 Palestinian medical evacuats and other people who fled Gaza.
But analysts say that both countries would rather risk losing their US help than alienating their population by appearing to the amendor in ethnic cleansing of gauze.
For Jordan, taking a large number of Palestinians forced from Gaza is unacceptable because this could expand the existing outlook between citizens who are Palestinian origin and those who are not, say destabilizing monarchy, analysts say. More than half of the 12 million objects of King Abdullah Palestinian originally.
Jordan is already hosting about 700,000 refugees, including Syrians and Iraqi, as well as Palestine. It is mostly impoverished population, but it has flooded the limited resources of small land.
Mr. Trump’s proposal is also afraid that Israel will take Palestine from the occupied west coast to Jordan, a long -term ambition of the extreme right -wing Israelites next time.
The Arab League Secretary General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, alluded to such fears on Wednesday, saying, “Today is a focus on Gaza and will switch to the west coast tomorrow, with the aim of emptying the historical Palestine of his natives, something that is unacceptable.”
Egypt also sees the possibility of Palestinians to move to Egypt as a serious security threat. Forcibly displaced Palestinians could perform attacks on Israel from Egyptian soil, according to officials, calling for Israeli military retaliation.
Rania Khaled Contribution to reporting from Cairo.
