The announcement by US President Donald Trump to take over the Gaza strip is increasingly increasing the uncertainty in the region. “Of course these are all insane suggestions that are ultimately at the expense of third parties,” said the security expert of the Bertelsmann Foundation in star-Podcast “The Location -International”.
Trump is already rowing back
Trump had stated on Tuesday in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take control of the Gaza strip after the end of the fighting. He wanted to make a “Riviera of the Middle East” out of it and move all Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt, said Trump. He took back the addition to using American soldiers, but also a day later.
A relocation presupposes that both the affected people and the receiving states have to participate, Mölling said in the podcast: “The question is: what about the Gaza strip? He is convinced: “Of course these are all things that will not work at all.”
In the current situation, this ensures additional tensions. Not only the Palestinians, but also Israel’s Premier Netanyahu “have no security what will happen to him”. If Trump rudder back on his Gaza plan, as he does in parts, Netanyahu also has to ask what else he could rely on the American president.
“He just obviously talks what goes through his head,” says Mölling about Trump. “And then he has an apparatus, he has to catch it again.”
“It’s all irresponsible”
This strategy is also dangerous for the USA itself. If you really implemented Trump’s ideas, the United States would basically be “on the way to a new global police USA,” said Mölling. “This is exactly what has long been accused of the USA and not consistently with what he himself said in the election campaign that he wants to get out of everything.” Trump’s behavior is “irresponsible”.
The Gaza plan of the US President had encountered massive criticism internationally. According to media reports, Egypt is said to have warned several partners in a diplomatic lightning initiative, the plan endangers its peace treaty with Israel and America’s influence in the region. Egypt’s president has not yet officially commented.
In the past, both Egypt and Jordan categorically rejected the admission of other refugees from Palestine.
