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For weeks, Arab leaders were awaiting anxiety to measure how US President Donald Trump would respond to the largest Middle East crisis in decades, warned of the inability to predict, and his lack of understanding a complex area and his supportive bias.
But nothing in the fiercest of their dreams was expecting the surreal proposal that revealed it to a stunning world when he took the platform in the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.
Not satisfied with the call for forced resettlement of more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, Trump has increased risks significantly by announcing that the United States planned it Take the besieged tape – And he will use the American military force if necessary.
The idea is so strange that there will be a temptation to reject it as Trump's foolishness. It will be a violation of the international laws that the United States has long sought for the championship and adherence. It would risk returning to the American forces to fight in the Middle East – something Trump I pledged to avoid.
Washington's Arab allies and European and Southern Southern partners will achieve. It will take the credibility of the United States, which has been beaten, will take another diving. It would turn to Trump's dreams of securing a big deal – and his desire to secure the Nobel Peace Prize – with a deal that would lead to the introduction to Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries that normalize relations with Israel.
It will create another catastrophe for the Palestinians who have been calling for generations for generations Gaza house. Where do they go? Nobody knows. No Arab country will dare accept them and see them as complicit with the forced displacement of their Palestinian brothers.
The bitter legacy of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced or fled in the fighting that accompanied the founding of Israel, is still raw in the Islamic world. The Palestinians refer to that period in the name of the Nakba, or the disaster, and many invaders from the descendants of those who have been displaced.
No one in the region – except for the extreme right in Israel – can repeat.
However, this is Trump, the real estate show host for real estate and a reality host, who has already threatened to seize the Panama channel and take over Greenland.
He seemed long ago to look at the Middle East through his own perspective in concluding real estate deals and projects, as he was wandering in Israel's supporting tools of Israel, which he surrounded in his new administration, and was overlooked in the history of Israel.
A year ago, Jared Kushner, Trump's son -in -law and former White House advisor in the Middle East, was talking about “the property of the waterfront” in Gaza, saying it could be “very valuable.”
On Tuesday, the president was saying that he imagined that the thick Mediterranean sector, which was destroyed by the war, could be “the Riviera in the Middle East.”
“We will develop it, we will create thousands of thousands of jobs and will be something that the entire Middle East can be proud of.”
Netanyahu could hardly hide a smile standing beside Trump, praising the most pro -Israel president in the history of the United States for “thinking outside the box.”
“I think it is something that can change history,” said Netanyahu.
Since Israel launched its resounding attack in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors were afraid that Netanyahu's final goal was to make the tape unintended and the leadership of Ghazan from their land.
The right -wing ministers in his government publicly talk about the need to resettle the tape that Israel withdrawn two decades ago. Now they seem to have the most powerful leader in the world in their corner.
The weak Arab leaders will hope that Trump's suggestion will be part of some of the opening maneuvering or negotiating his plans for the mediator for a broader deal that would lead to Saudi Arabia's approval of official diplomatic relations with Israel.
During his first term, Trump mediated in the so -called Ibrahim Convention, transactions deals that led to the United Arab Emirates and three other Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel. He made it clear that he wanted to expand the success of foreign policy.
But the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, said repeatedly that it can only happen if there is the establishment of a Palestinian state, including Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Many in the Arab world hope that Prince Muhammad will tend to have his relationship with Trump, and he can carry the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to present the “Great Deal” to curb his policies.
It was an unusual and uninterrupted pioneer Refuse forced displacement of the Palestinians Wednesday. The leaders of the Kingdom are concerned about anger in the region, as a whole generation of young Arabs – the main circle of Prince Muhammad – saw that Israel has hit Gaza over the past 14 months.
The pressure on the Saudis and their Arab partners to persuade Trump will be the risks of his plan.
What Trump intentionally failed to understand is that despite all the destruction, poverty and suffering, Ghazan is proud to contact the sector. It is an integral part of their identity – the land in which their children were born and grew up, where they buried their loved ones and issued life through conflict courses. They want to continue in their lives in peace, not another maaka.
