Arabs' plan to confront Trump

Jordanian King Abdullah II succeeded in putting things in perspective during his visit to the United States and his meeting with US President Donald Trump, by transforming the Palestinian challenge that arose due to Trump’s threats to displace the citizens of the Gaza Strip into an Arab challenge, by talking about the expected Egyptian plan, and thus he overcame the great difficulties he faced during the expected meeting.

Before the Arab Summit, on the 27th of this month, a five-party summit will be held, bringing together the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar and Jordan, in an attempt to approve the Egyptian proposal that sets out a comprehensive vision for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, the details of which are expected to be announced next week.

The Egyptian proposal includes a plan to rebuild Gaza over 3-5 years, and includes working in two phases to remove rubble and build residential complexes.

The outcomes of the five-party summit, if adopted and ratified at the Arab summit, will strengthen the Arab position and response to Trump’s plan, and there is no doubt that this will also strengthen the hardline and rejecting Palestinian position. Hence, Arab movements must continue to repel this suspicious American plan that targets the entire Palestinian cause.

It is widely believed that Trump is the one who succeeded in the test, when he forced the Arabs to move and come to the White House with alternative plans, and thus completely interfere in a crisis that the Arab countries had been afraid to deal with for long periods. If Trump, according to US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, only aims to raise the pressure ceiling and motivate the Arab countries to present alternative proposals regarding Gaza, then this must pass through a complete Palestinian-Arab consensus, to confront the potential risks of ill intentions, through Trump's statements and Netanyahu's threats to eliminate any Palestinian role in the Gaza Strip, whether for the Palestinian Authority or the resistance. This matter is considered decisive, decisive and strategic for the Palestinians, as there is absolutely no alternative to a Palestinian role for the day after the war on the Gaza Strip, whether Trump wants it or not Netanyahu.

It is important for the Arabs to have an influential role in rebuilding the Gaza Strip, drawing a map for peace in the region, supporting the two-state solution, and assuming their responsibilities. But more important than all of this is not to fall into the trap of Trump and Netanyahu, who are playing on the chord of sabotaging and destroying the region and eliminating any horizon or initiative for security and peace, based on the great intentions of displacing and expelling the Palestinians, in an ethnic cleansing campaign unprecedented in history.

The Arab countries are at stake and facing a major test. They are responsible for developing alternative solutions to Trump and Netanyahu’s plans, which only go through rebuilding the Gaza Strip with a clear, serious, constructive and ambitious plan that preserves the Palestinians’ survival in their land, homeland and camps. Any solution other than that will put even the Arabs themselves in trouble with the Palestinians, because just as they have thwarted all American and Israeli plans over the past many years, which were interspersed with steadfastness and pride in all the wars that Israel has waged against the Palestinian people, the most recent of which was the aggression on the Gaza Strip, which our steadfast people thwarted, they are capable of thwarting Trump/Netanyahu’s plans at any price.