The choir of disapproval that greets Donald Trump's suggestion that the US took over the reconstruction of Gaza and moving Palestinians away from their destroyed houses was almost unanimous.
“I'm speechless. That is insane, “said the Delaware -senator Chris Coons, a Democrat, after Trump temporarily moved two million refugees from the smoldering wreck of the Gaza Strip to make redevelopment possible.
But like most international consensus, the indignation of Coons shows the typical knee foam of the elite that does not come from their charmed circle.
For more than 50 years, the world and that means that everyone, from US presidents to secretaress-general of the United Nations lip service has paid to the so-called 'two state solution' for the dispute about Arabic-Israel.
Few seemed to note that the Arab world was reluctant to recognize Israel or that the Palestinians themselves were effectively split into 'two states': a Gaza run by Hamas and a western Jordoever under the swing of the Palestinian liberation organization. Each of these statements left the elections 18 years ago and their rulers remained in office thanks to the power of bullets, no ballot papers.
It is the great political virtue of Donald Trump to fade the unthinkable with previously unaware clarity. It is upset, but unlocks their mind from the end of so much conventional thought.
Of course, 1001 things can go wrong with any attempt to solve the Palestinian problem. That much is clear.
In earlier form, Hamas will try to frustrate any progress. One of their motives in organizing the slaughter of 7 October was, after all, to kill the growing rapprochement between Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The choir of disapproval that greets Donald Trump's suggestion that the US took over the reconstruction of Gaza and moving Palestinians away from their destroyed houses was almost unanimous.
Of course, 1001 things can go wrong with any attempt to solve the Palestinian problem. That much is clear. (Shown: Gaza Strip).
There will be enormous restraint on the part of Jordan or Egypt, two neighboring countries, to take Palestinian refugees, Hamas-supporting Islamists are standing. The last time Jordan hosted for the Palestinians, in the early 1970s, the PLO tried to overthrow the Hashemite monarchy of Jordan.
Because the sinister photos of armed men who release Israeli hostages have made it all too clear, it may never be possible to completely eradicate Hamas or to expel the threat of terrorism.
Then someone has to pay the reconstruction account of several billions. Can the Moneybags of Qatar be persuaded to step forward?
The only certain is this: it will take on all the famous capacity of Trump to beat the heads together to achieve the large breakthroughs.
Yet his vision is attractive, anyway:
“You build really good quality housing, such as a beautiful city, such as a place where they can live and cannot die, because Gaza is a guarantee that they will die,” Trump said reporters during the news conference with the Israeli President Netanyahu on Tuesday.
Trump, remember, had victories in the region in his first term. So why not now? There was no new war between Israel and his enemies, Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah. Fear of his unpredictability seems to have kept things calm.
The first Trump term saw the VAE and Bahrain Plus more distant Arab states such as Sudan and Morocco register with the Abraham chords, and recognized Israel.
The result was the largest diplomatic performance of America in the middle -east since Jimmy Carter Israel and Egypt brought to the peace table.
Even before he entered the White House again, fear about what Trump's threats to solve the hostage problem by making life before Hamas had calmed down things and helped to achieve a cease-fire.
By the way, why should we adhere to the tram lines of the failed consensus?
Note how the new Syrian leader, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, contacted Western investors when it comes to rebuilding his shattered state.
Al-Sharaa has wisely played anti-Israeli attitudes, although he comes from the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since the 1967 six-day war.
Despite all the difficulties with which it is confronted, the new Syria can prove a model for a post -war Gaza.
The Gulf States of the United Arab Emirates offer a different positive way.
Donald Trump's conversation about operating the coastline of Gaza as the basis of a tourist economy in a rivier-style may sound grotesque in today's traumatic conditions.
But how many visitors to Dusty Dubai in the early 1970s – and there were only a few – could have imagined it as it is now.
Today's Dubai is a shimmering metropolis with excellent facilities for tourists and foreign entrepreneurs. It also has excellent security schemes to protect visitors and investors and their own citizens.
On his own side, Gaza once had many natural benefits and could enjoy it again on time.
Gaza is the name of an old city and a region. The monuments range from ancient archeology from the age of the Maccabees. Beautiful mosques are badly damaged by the war, but their restoration, as with war damaged historical sites in Bosnia or Kosovo in the nineties, can promote local skills and foreign tourism.
But it is the status of Gaza as a stop on trade routes of antiquity in the 20th century that could make it a strategic location for renewed trade from India and Asia to the Mediterranean Sea and back. Large schemes to build a med-to-red sea channel to supplement the Suez Canal can provide valuable income.
The long tradition of the market garden of Gaza must be revived and a de-shed factory that uses the coastal position can deliver the feeding of Israelis and Gazans.
Trump's speech about exploiting the coastline of Gaza as the basis of a tourist economy in 'Riviera' style may sound grotesque in today's traumatic conditions. (Depicted: a statue of Trump's Gaza 'Riviera') generated by AI).
On his own side, Gaza once had many natural benefits and could enjoy it again on time. (Depicted: a statue of Trump's Gaza 'Riviera') generated by AI).
If Hamas had built on Gaza's assets and traditions instead of literally undermining tunnels to store weapons, they could have run a model state on the Mediterranean Sea. After all, Israel did it, building one of the world's most successful democracies from sand.
In their hearts, many ordinary Palestinians recognize the dead person who have now led their self -proclaimed leaders.
And if Trump can improve life for Gazans – with safety for them if they disagree with a bruised but vengeful Hamas – then his daring vision of the future of Gaza can be realized.
The idea of ​​'winning hearts and spirits' has been ridiculous since the failure in Vietnam, but people forget too easily how quickly the American economic reconstruction won the Germans and Japanese who had been loyal to the Hitler or Hirohito regime until the arrival in 1945 in 1945.
Because Trump's style 'well -thinking' folk of malfunctions, not seeing that his rhetoric is more often or not a very practical approach to problem solving.
He is not confused by Ivy League International Relations Theory. Neither is he hammered by respect for 'international law' that paralyzes so many of America's European allies – while our opponents ignore it with verve.
Admittedly, the chance of success of Trump is – but that is nothing new. And no reason not to hope.
