Remember a week or two back, when President Trump said the US will take over the Gaza Strip and redevelop it?
Looks like the Arab states in the region really don't like that idea.
A $53bn (£41.4 billion) reconstruction plan to rival President Donald Trump's idea for the US to "take over Gaza" and move out more than two million Palestinians has been approved by Arab leaders at an emergency summit in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
"The Egypt plan is now an Arab plan," announced the secretary general of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the end of this hours-long gathering.
Without referring specifically to President Trump's ideas, he underlined that "the Arab stance is to reject any displacement, whether it is voluntary or forced".
There's more at the link.
The Arab League's action comes after Israel supported President Trump's initiative, which would mean that many Palestinians from Gaza would have to be "resettled" elsewhere. That concentrated some minds wonderfully, because the Arab states have systematically refused to resettle Palestinians on their territory - but any resettlement would have to involve them, because there's nowhere else for the Palestinians to go. Furthermore, the cost of rebuilding Gaza is now for the Arab League's account, not America's. $53 billion is not small change!
I daresay something like this is what President Trump had in mind all along, just like calling for and imposing reciprocal tariffs is designed to "encourage" other nations to relax their tariffs on American goods and services.
Ah . . . diplomacy!
Peter
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I enjoyed his speech last night. It would be a good idea if the neighboring Arab countries did their share to help the Palestinians - that is a long time in coming.
As long as Hamas and other terrorist organizations might embed their future needs along with the community. That will be hard to keep an eye on.
"the Arab stance is to reject any displacement, whether it is voluntary or forced"
Yeah; that's because after what displaced "Palestinians" did in Jordan and Syria, no one wants to risk taking in any more of the wann-be government-topplers.
1.5 million Palestinians housed in containers? That's ridiculously impractical to anyone who has ever tried to cut holes and fit personnel doors, windows and utility penetrations into a corrugated steel shipping container. "Temporary" is an aspirational target that is defined by how long it lasts. There's Katrina cottages that have become multigenerational housing thirty miles away from the storm's landfall to my certain knowledge. Plenty ended up in deer camps in the Delta too.
The accumulated experience of terrorism is that "removing the causes of the conflict with Israel" won't do anything except prove that terrorism works and that Israel is not operating from strength, therefore vulnerable to more October 7th attacks. Hamas must be completely destroyed with all the ferocity and viciousness Israel can muster. There's no other path to relative safety from terrorism for Israel. Nice guys finish last, especially in the Middle East.
rick m
Kind of like letting Mexico build the wall. Theyvaren't dealing with Braindead Biden and his Masters of Evil here. Trump is bright and slick.
"We approved the plan. Alas, we haven't got that kind of money, so we won't be doing any of it."
This is a recipe for more Nothing.
Israel should've bulldozed the entire Gaza Strip, and forcibly repatriated the residents back into Egypt once and for all.
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