Trump thought he could force the Palestinians to leave their land.

To implement his plan, Trump went straight to work. He contacted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and tried to pressure him to accept the displaced Palestinians on Egyptian soil. In a cordial tone, he called al-Sisi a “friend” and, recalling the aid he had provided to Egypt, asked for his cooperation in the project. Trump even went further and claimed that the King of Jordan would also participate in the implementation of the plan.

But things did not go as Trump had imagined. Egypt and Jordan rejected the proposal in an official statement. They considered the plan not a solution, but a blatant attempt to forcibly displace the Palestinians and destroy their national identity. Al-Sisi responded: “The forced displacement of the Palestinian people is an atrocity that Egypt will never participate in.” Jordan, which is currently home to more than 2 million Palestinians, warned that accepting the plan would be not only impossible but also a threat to the stability of the entire region.

In response to the plot, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League held an emergency meeting in Cairo and strongly condemned the plan in a joint statement. The statement said: “This plan will not only not solve the Palestinian crisis, but will also intensify the conflict and destroy the prospects for peace.”

At the meeting, Arab leaders reaffirmed the two-state solution and announced that they would seek to work with the United States to achieve a just peace based on this solution. They also called on the international community to accelerate the reconstruction of Gaza with the direct participation of the Palestinians.