In the busy heart, Cairo Cafe, the theme with the gas, which managed to escape at the beginning of the devastating war Israel with Hamas. Although they found security, they remain concerned about loved ones home.
In the last few days, Egyptian intelligence met with Hamas leaders to pull up a shaky ceasefire. Tens of millions of Egyptians – establishing permanent news updates – are already experiencing intimate participation in the war in Gaza.
But now – with the unexpected vision of President Trump’s post -war vision, which offers to move two million Palestinians to the “land parcel” in Egypt and Jordan so that the US can occupy the territory – they are afraid of the existential threat.
The Egyptians flock to prayer on Friday, they say that the idea of Trump requires checking reality.
“We would move the battle from their land to our own!” Says Abda, the building engineer. “The Israeli army and the Palestinian resistance eternal enemies, and there is no peace between them. This means that we gave us Israel to attack them on our land in the name of self-defense.”
Others emphasize how the idea of constantly displacing gases will equally eliminate Palestinian searches for statehood. But, as they say, it will also breed extremism and cause instability in Egypt.
To try to convey such a message, Egypt’s President Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi launched a behind-the-scenes diplomatic blitz. He faces one of the most difficult points of his government, which can reset relations with the key Western ally of his country.
Egypt hangs a threat to its peaceful contract with neighboring Israel – it has long been considered as a cornerstone of stability and influence of the United States in the Middle East.
Ever since Washington concluded a breakthrough in 1979, she viewed Cairo as a close ally. Egypt was invariably one of the largest recipients of the US military assistance, agreed under the treaty. Last year, $ 1.3 billion was allocated in military assistance.
However, commentators express strong criticism on influential night talk shows. American military assistance “is of no value to Egypt,” said Ahmed Musa recently, a popular host on a private TV channel. He insisted that the Egyptians abandon “pressure” or “blackmail”.
Egyptian leader chooses another approach to King of Jordan Abdullah II, who recently met Trump at the White House. There, Abdullah took a poster tone and promised to take the sick children in the gas, not giving reason the idea of resettlement for gas.
Egypt’s reports state that Sisi refuses to visit Washington and the displacement is on the agenda, although the US claims that the trip is not planned.
Egypt’s own economy was severely affected by the war; It states that the income from Suez lost $ 8 billion out of the attacks of the Hussite of Yemen on ships in the Red Sea, which began on the onset of Israel’s gas.
Now, in the hope that, having developed its own “main plan” for the reconstruction of the gas, Egypt can avoid the extremely problematic mass movement of the Palestinians and increase its economy.
Egyptian real estate tycoon Hisham Talat Mustafa – who near Sisy – was on TV, pushing $ 20 billion (16 billion euros) for the construction of 200,000 houses in Gaza in just three years, without the relocation of Palestinians.
The plan is possible, says Professor Mustafa Camel al-Sayid of Cairo University: “I don’t think the Egyptians will not find safe zones to move the Palestinians as long as their part of the gas is restored.”
It adds different “innovative ideas”, he adds, including one for Butov, which will be used as a building material in the reconstruction.
Speaking before traveling in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio acknowledged that Arab states “do not like” Trump Gaza plan. “Now that someone has a better plan – and we hope they will do it,” he continued, “now time to present it.”
Some Arab leaders should meet in Saudi Arabia soon, and Egypt calls on the Arab summit to discuss an alternative “comprehensive vision” for Gaza in Cairo on February 27.
The proposals are assumed to provide a fund under the guidance of the Gulf to help submit a large reconstruction bill and the Hamas side line. Israel and the US have made it clear that the Palestinian armed group that has ruled in Gaza since 2007 should not have a future role.
The idea of Egypt provides for the training of a new security force and the identification of Palestinian technocrats – not related to any political faction – which will be responsible for early recovery projects.
However, to come up with a transaction that satisfies the Israeli government will be a difficult task.
Former US Secretary of State Anthony Blowin provided for world powers, and the UN plays a temporary role in Gaza, until the Palestinian administration (Pennsylvania), which rules parts of the occupied Western shore, cannot take responsibility. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to block his participation in his confrontation with Palestinian statehood.
Egypt, along with other Arab states, is still committed to the long-standing international peace formula, a two-state decision that the independent Palestinian state is conceiving with Israel. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that he wanted to work with President Trump in order to “reach a comprehensive and just peace in the region, reaching a fair settlement of the Palestinian case.”
Returning outside the mosque in Cairo, believers quietly note how their country should try to avoid disturbing repetitions of history.
Already in Egypt it is said that it has more than 100,000 gas. With the idea of accepting much more, some are worried that their country can become a base for Hamas – an ideological offshoot of their own forbidden Muslim fraternity of the country – which, they claim, can be enhanced by stunning internal upheaval.
In the end, there is strong support in Egypt, which takes a strong position and stands to the US.
“Life becomes more complicated for us with the number of refugees we have already received. Imagine if we take more!” exclaimed the store owner who did not want to name his name.
“Palestinians should live on our own land, not ours. We don’t need anything from the US.
“I stand by Sisy and Government, and we are ready to face complete consequences.”
