Trump’s Gaza plan is “ridiculous” and harmed US relations with Egypt and Jordan, former US Middle East Peace Negotiator Aaron David Miller says.
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00:00President Trump says he's got a plan to create lots of prosperity,
00:03turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East,
00:06except it won't have any Gazan people living there by the sounds of things.
00:10They'd be forcibly relocated to neighboring countries.
00:13Do you think that plan is ever likely to see the light of day?
00:17That plan is patently ridiculous.
00:20And it has validated the fantasies of the Israeli right.
00:23It has undermined American relations with Egypt and Jordan.
00:27And it doesn't advance the argument or the possibility of a solution.
00:32I think maybe the most charitable interpretation of that
00:36was that President Trump thought he would somehow motivate key Arab states
00:40to come up with their own plan, and he did.
00:43But the plan they've developed doesn't address the core issues that need to be addressed.
00:48And I think the lukewarm reaction by the Trump administration
00:54to what came out of the Cairo summit and the adamant opposition in the part of the Israelis
01:00suggests that that plan is going to be no more successful than President Trump's.