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Find in the detached hair of President Trump, Jordan and Egypt move with speed – and uncertain perspectives of success – to dissuade, distract it and divert him to force them to welcome them Palestinians from the band of Gaza.
For the two Arab governments, who consider Trump’s proposal to consider two million Palestinians as an existential threat, the strategy seems to be to appease the American president with work offers together to rebuild Gaza, bring peace to the region and extend humanitarian aid efforts. This could help them buy time, according to analysts – perhaps enough for Mr. Trump to reject the idea as too complicated, or recognize the strategic disadvantages and the security of the destabilization of two of the allies closest to the States -Unis in the region.
King Jordan Abdullah used a conciliatory tone when meeting Trump in the oval office on Tuesday, telling the American president that his country would welcome 2,000 Palestinian children with cancer and other Gaza diseases. However, he has otherwise given any reason for resettlement of more gas, and then repeated the rejection by Jordan of the plan in a declaration on social networks.
Jordan has already been dealing with certain cancer patients in Gaza for months, making the offer more token than a real concession. But Mr. Trump described him as “beautiful gestures”.
Other world leaders have found that Trump Flatter tends to help them. King Abdullah seemed to follow their example on Tuesday, praising the president as “someone who can make us cross the finish line to bring stability, peace and prosperity” to the Middle East.
Even if the king pushed Mr. Trump back into the post to specify that he rejected the mass displacement of the Palestinians, he noted that the United States had a key role to play. “The realization of peace on the basis of the two-state solution is the means of ensuring regional stability,” he said in the position. “It requires American leadership.”
Egypt also said that it wanted to work with Mr. Trump to “make a complete and just peace in the region by reaching a just colony of the Palestinian cause”, according to an Egyptian statement Released later Tuesday.
But the declaration made no mention to participate in Mr. Trump’s proposal and reiterated the position of Egypt that peace could only be carried out by giving the Palestinians. The Palestinians and many other Arabs have rejected the forced displacement proposed by Mr. Trump of the Palestinians of Gaza not only as ethnic cleansing, a war crime which flies in the face of international law, but also as the death of death for their Long -term dream of a Palestinian state.
Egypt has rather sought to serve an alternative plan for Mr. Trump, affirming in the declaration that it “would present a complete vision of the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip in a way that guarantees the Palestinian people in their homeland.” The Palestinian authority joined its own plan to help Gaza recover from the war on Wednesday.
In recent days, while the alarm concerning the idea of the president has mounted in Cairo, Egyptian officials have stressed that Egypt is ready to help rebuild Gaza, with which it shares a vital crossing, as it made after the previous conflicts.
An Egyptian real estate tycoon, Hisham Talaat Moustafa, who, like Mr. Trump, has developed a chain of residential and hotels, participated in a evening show of the evening on Sunday to describe a proposal of $ 20 billion For the construction of 200,000 housing units in Gaza, as if he was trying to try to talk to the developer to the developer.
But Mr. Moustafa, who is closely linked to the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, said that he was considering rebuilding Gaza without moving the Palestinians out of the band.
During Tuesday’s meeting, King Abdullah also repeatedly referred to the need for consultations with Egypt and other Arab countries before responding to Mr. Trump’s proposal, mentioning a next meeting in Riyadh with Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman from Saudi Arabia. Egypt also called on a summit of Arab leaders to discuss the question in Cairo on February 27.
Despite the decline in Egypt and Jordan, Mr. Trump seems to stick to the heart of his off-scope proposal for the United States to “own” Gaza and redevelop him in a “Riviera” for tourism and jobs. During Tuesday’s meeting with King Abdullah and his son, Prince Hussein Hussein, he said that “we will have Gaza” and “we are going to take it”.
But he seemed to soften his previous threat to reduce funding in Jordan and Egypt, two of the best beneficiaries of American aid, if they did not accept Palestinians from Gaza, saying: “We are above that . “
Trump also suggested that he was considering a wider group of countries that could receive Gazans. “We have other countries that want to get involved,” he said, and when a journalist asked if two of these countries could be Albania and Indonesia, he replied: “Yes, Of course.” (The leaders of the two countries rejected such a possibility.)
Experts from the Middle East say that Mr. Trump seems to ignore previous American calculations on the importance of stability in Egypt and Jordan, Arab neighbors of Israel who both made peace with Israel years ago and years ago and Cooperate closely with the United States on security issues.
“The way he talks about these relationships is as if these countries were takers and we get very little,” said Brian Katulis, a principal researcher at the Institute of the Middle East who focuses on the ‘Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Jordan and the Palestinians.
In fact, many defenders and criticism of human rights in Egypt have asked how wise American investment is in Egypt argue that it supports a repressive regime which often goes against American interests. But analysts say that Egypt’s cooperation and in particular Jordan on regional security has been precious for the United States.
Egypt, which receives $ 1.3 billion a year of American military assistance to buy weapons, making it the second recipient of such funding after Israel, worked with the United States on the efforts of fight against terrorism.
Jordan is the front door of the United States to the Middle East for decades, welcoming an American military base and a large post of central intelligence agency and acting as a diplomatic center. Like Egypt, the Jordanian monarchy shares the American vision of militant Islam as a major threat and supported the United States in its fight against Al-Qaeda and then the Islamic State, among other common enemies.
When Iran targeted Israel with missiles and drones last year, Jordan also helped to shoot some.
Jordan was “with Us Lock Step,” said Katulis.
Egypt and Jordan both accepted the Palestinian refugees after being moved during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of the State of Israel, and Egypt has now welcomed at least 100,000 Palestinian Medical Evacués and other people who fled Gaza.
But analysts say that the two countries prefer to risk losing American aid than alienating their populations by seeming accomplices in the ethnic cleaning of Gaza.
For Jordan, a large number of Palestinians forced to get out of Gaza are unacceptable because there could be an existing flaw between citizens who are of Palestinian origin and those who are not, destabilizing the monarchy, say analysts. More than half of King Abdullah’s 12 million subjects are of Palestinian origin.
Jordan already welcomes around 700,000 refugees, including the Syrians and the Iraqis as well as the Palestinians. This largely impoverished population has almost submerged the limited resources of the small country.
Mr. Trump’s proposal also ignites the fears of Israel who will then hunt the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank in Jordan, a long -standing ambition of the Israelis of the far right.
The secretary general of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, alluded to such fears on Wednesday, saying: “Today, the accent is put on Gaza and tomorrow, he will move to the West Bank, in order to empty The historic Palestine of its natives, something that is unacceptable. »»
Egypt also considers the possibility that the Palestinians resettle in Egypt as a serious threat of security. The Palestinians moved by force could launch attacks on Egyptian soil Israel, according to officials, inviting Israeli military reprisals.
Rania Khaled Reports contributed to Cairo.
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