Outlandish and utterly unacceptable as the Riviera of the Middle East plan is, it may succeed in derailing negotiations to bring a long-term end to the conflict in Gaza
Outlandish and utterly unacceptable as the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ plan is, it may succeed in derailing negotiations to bring a long-term end to the conflict in Gazaof its people, resettle them in neighbouring states so that the US could “take it over and develop it” has attracted both derision and alarm.
More specifically any such plan would present vast practical, logistical and political obstacles, assuming that anyone was serious about the undertaking in the first instance.Dancing with the Stars: a dark and stormy end for meteorologist Joanna Donnelly as she loses dance-offLorcan Sirr: When your chance of owning a home depends on whether your parents do, the system is rigged
After 1967 the presence of militant Palestinian factions alarmed the monarchy to the extent that in September 1970, King Hussein ordered his army into action in what became an all-out war with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, with the loss of over 3,000 Palestinian and 600 Jordanian lives. In addition the regime in Cairo is deeply hostile to Hamas. Sisi came to power having overthrown an elected president from the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is a Palestinian offshoot. Sisi has no interest in hosting what would likely be an influx of Hamas militants among the broader Palestinian civilian population should Trump’s plan for ethnic cleansing come to fruition.
For some Trump is displaying imagination in “thinking outside the box” – all the old approaches to the Palestinian issue have failed and new ideas are called for. More pragmatically it has been suggested that this is an elaborate bargaining ploy designed to place pressure on key actors in the current conflict. Hamas might be persuaded to make even greater concessions in talks with Israel in exchange for an abandonment of the plan to empty Gaza of Palestinians.
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