While the most recent proposals by US President Donald Trump for the US equity and US-led restoration of the Gaza Strip were rapidly rejected by allies in the Middle East and past, it is safe to say that the clever name” Riviera of the Middle East” will remain in record.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a press conference in Washington on Tuesday, where they had made a number of comments.
” We’ll private it” he said, referring to Gaza.
The southern region’s transformation into the “riverside of the Middle East” was finally described by him as his plans.
Trump sees “dismantling all of the dangerous old weapons and other arms on this site” as a top priority.
Therefore, the US do “level the blog and get rid of the ruined buildings”.
According to Trump, the goal is to” produce an economic development that will provide an unlimited number of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
” I envision the world’s people living it”, he said, adding that “people there may live in peace, Palestinians are most we are talking about”.
The “potential of Gaza is unreal and we have an option to do something that may be phenomenal,” according to Trump.
Trump previously more suggested that Palestinians may be “relocated outside Gaza where they can live properly” because the Gaza Strip is not an empty story fit for investment but it is home to about 2 million Palestinians.
Above all, he appealed to Jordan and Egypt to “open their emotions and give us the land that they]the Palestinians ] need”.
Egypt and Jordan, yet, remain unwavering in their commitment to not accept Zionists from Gaza.
Following Trump’s presentations, both state officials reiterated on Wednesday that, while their help for the Palestinians was unwavering, but is their refusal of taking in individuals from Gaza.
Integrated Muslim stance
According to Stephan Roll from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs,” Giving up Egyptian area is considered illegal, especially in light of the settlement project, which some Egyptian regard as anti-Palestinian.”
He claimed in an meeting in late January that Egypt’s rejectionist position was based on support and cooperation for the Arab claim to independence.
However, Edmund Ratka, who heads the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s office in Amman, told DW on Wednesday that” Jordan is not only a very close ally of the United States, it is also reliant on American support money”.
Donald Trump’s most recent remarks, in his opinion, have put the Jordanian ruler in a serious predicament ahead of their conference in Washington on Wednesday.
King Abdullah II must maintain diplomatic relations with the United States, and on the other hand, for a population transfer, such forced resettlement of Palestinians to Jordan would be a political message the king would not be able to socially convey to his own people, Ratka said.
But, for Ashraf Al-Ashry, the editor-in-chief of the Iranian news Al-Ahram, it is clear that” no Egyptian leader will accept American or Israeli forces to undermine or sell the Palestinian reason”.
Otherwise, Egypt has its own strategy to restore Gaza, albeit without displacing any Palestinians, he said.
” Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi will provide their own schedule to Donald Trump in the next days”, Al-Ashry told DW.
He claims that the Gaza Strip’s rebuilding will take three or four years in stages.
He said,” It will begin with Rafah and the south, will move on to the south, will move on to Gaza City, and will end in the north.”
Al-Ashry stated that the Egyptian and Gulf countries may lead a sizable sum of money in addition to the European Union, the United Nations Development and Reconstruction Fund, other worldwide institutions, and the World Bank.
A consolidated Muslim rejection, in his opinion, will render the British proposal pointless because it is “impractical and unrealistic”.
Questions remain unanswered
Peter Lintl, an associate at the Africa and Middle East Division of the Berlin-based believe container German Institute for International and Security Affairs, even regards Donald Trump’s ideas as inadequate.
Trump told DW that there are still many obvious questions that remain unanswered, despite the ostensibly optimistic tone with which the region’s citizens may fare and that primarily Jordan and Egypt should welcome people.
If the Palestinians refuse to leave the Gaza Strip, what will he do? Who should encourage such a movement, and should it be carried out by pressure, which may result in ethnic cleansing? And what part did Israel or the Americans play? he asked.
Trump, in his opinion, prefers to make an announcement in a way that he would like things to develop.
” Also, the idea that this was pacify the conflict in Gaza is nonsense”, Lintl said.
More than 47,500 people died in the Hamas-run health ministry’s most recent figures, including those from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, in the 15-month-long conflict that resulted in the destruction of a large portion of the southern strip.
The UN and a number of other humanitarian organizations consider the fatality figures to be widely reliable, but the government does not distinguish between citizens and combatants.
Israel launched its Gaza activity following the Hamas problems in southeastern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of some 1,200 people.
The latest peace between Israel and Hamas is set to provide the second of three phases on Wednesday.
The launch of the remaining Jewish hostages and the departure of Israeli forces from Gaza are the two main topics in the second phase.
According to Lintl, Trump’s most recent statements may also cause the reconstruction of Gaza to take longer because the parties at war may return to the arms at any time.
Lintl noted that if the Israeli side saw its bargaining power disappear, the current ceasefire might become more fragile.
