Donald Trump's Gaza plan complicates hoped-for Saudi-Israeli deal
Abraham Accords that established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of his first term.
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Now he is pursuing his long-desired goal of getting Saudi Arabia to join the accords — but he may have just dealt himself a serious setback. Trump's proposal to transfer all 2 million Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and then rebuild the enclave as the «Riviera of the Middle East» has antagonized some of the very people he needs to seal the deal.
The Gaza idea was swiftly rejected by Arab countries, among them Saudi Arabia. The Gulf powerhouse released a predawn statement right after Trump floated the proposal Tuesday evening.
The kingdom made clear that it is standing by its demand that a Palestinian state first be established before it will normalize relations with Israel. The precondition is «nonnegotiable and not subject to compromises,» the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
The statement directly contradicted Trump, who had just told reporters in Washington that Saudi Arabia had dropped the precondition. One senior Saudi royal said what the U.S. leader was proposing would be tantamount to an «ethnic cleansing» of Gaza.
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