The reactions of the Arab rulers to the US President Donald Trump's plan for peace in the Middle East that embraced the Israeli vision varied between improper interest and cautious reservations, and a reminder of the positions known to the international community that were never respected.

With these expressions, the French website of Aurian 21, in an article for the former international employee Christian Goure, summarized the Arab positions, and said that Trump's so-called vision of "peace to prosperity," which, according to what it says, aims to "improve the lives of the Palestinian and Israeli people", stipulated in the fact He ordered it to annex large areas of the West Bank to Israel and gave it borders on the Jordan River, and it gave up referring to the 1967 borders, and kept the capital of Palestine away from Jerusalem.

The writer commented that it took three years for the Trump administration to come up with a vision that reflects Israeli interests, ignores the vision of the Palestinians, and moves away from the mutual concessions announced by the US administration.

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The writer said that Trump, when revealing his "vision", expressed confidence in the willingness of Arab states to support them and play a role in implementing them, but that when he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would "receive tremendous support from his neighbors and those who are beyond his neighbors," he may have said This is because the first responses convinced him, but that may be his own way of delivering a heavy blow with intimidation, waving a stick and a carrot, and considering his desires real orders.

The writer pointed out that Trump's diplomatic methods are not different from his usual methods of work in trade, which is that he works as a brutal negotiator rather than a skilled negotiator, and what interests him is to "buy" the product that he has by his interlocutors, and therefore his plan must be accepted and nothing else, which means that Palestinians who reject it will face heavy penalties.

Trump has already said that in 2021 the United States will stop providing security services to the Palestinian Authority, for the first time since the 1993 Oslo accords, but this "punishment" may not be implemented because it is in Israel's interest that the Palestinians have effective security services.

Although the Palestinian issue has for decades been strongly present in the Arab countries, Iran, and Turkey, either to adopt it or to use it for local purposes, such as promoting internal unity, this presence has diminished, especially when it was found that the peace process did not result in anything, and that settlement did not back down, and that The United States' support for Israel is constant, and the balance of power in Israel's favor is irreversible.

Finally, the Arab revolutions in 2011 contributed to the decline of the Palestinian cause, because the Arab rulers gave priority to their internal affairs in the areas of security, defense and the economy, and it is not surprising that their support for the Palestinian cause loses its momentum in these circumstances.

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A, no, Abbas

The site said that the Palestinians rejected Trump's plan long before its publication, since he announced the transfer of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018, and that they should not expect anything from this administration.

The Palestinians cut ties with Washington, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced, according to him, that he would read the plan and talk to Trump about it on the phone.

Far from seeing the plan as a "winning" opportunity for both sides, as Trump claims, the Palestinians see in it an Israeli-American plot woven against their political leadership and their people, and an attempt by Trump and the ideologists around him to write off their history and determine their fate beyond their control.

The site added that, despite the Palestinian Prime Minister's threat to end all agreements between the Palestinians and Israelis, Abbas, even if he said "no thousand times for the Trump plan," has returned to assert that stopping security coordination with Israel is just an "option."

The author doubted that the Palestinian president would be separated from Israel because there are overlapping interests between the services of the two countries, and in order not to deprive himself of the benefits that he derives from this "security coordination", which is likely that if it is canceled, it will be at the initiative of Israel.

He considered that the meeting of Fatah and Hamas when announcing the Trump plan was more propaganda than being aware of the effects of the American plan, and he considered that communication between the two parties is impossible with Abbas' presence, wondering how we can believe this expression of unity and solidarity with Fatah continuing to prosecute Hamas supporters on behalf of Israel?

As for the reaction of the Arab leaders between announcing the plan and the extraordinary meeting of the League of Arab States, they were cautious, because some Gulf countries did not want to isolate the American president, whom it considers a shield against the Iranian threat, especially since the fate of Palestine is no longer at the heart of their internal and national concerns, and he is no longer The price that Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE want to pay for fear of losing American protection and within the rapprochement with Israel.

Riyadh has expressed its appreciation for the American efforts while calling for direct negotiations, and some Saudi commentators have condemned wasting opportunities for the Palestinians, while the UAE considered Trump's plan a "serious initiative", "providing an important starting point for negotiations in an international framework led by the Americans."

As for Egypt, where the Arab League held an extraordinary session, it suffices to recall the well-known positions of the international community, "a sovereign Palestinian state in accordance with United Nations resolutions", while appreciating the "ongoing efforts" of the American administration.

While Tunisia and Algeria strongly criticized the American initiative, Morocco did not go out of its guard, and it maintained its positions on the question of Palestine without angering the American president, and praised the "constructive peace efforts made by the current administration to reach a just, lasting and equitable solution in the Middle East."

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The Palestinian cause in exile

The author of the article linked Morocco's warnings known to be tough on the Palestinian issue, and recent visits by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kouchner, and his wife, the daughter of the President and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to Rabat, and said that these visits are seen as part of a game in which Washington can recognize Moroccan sovereignty On the Western Sahara in exchange for the kingdom's normalization of its relations with Israel.

Along with Tunisia and Algeria, Iraq showed more boldness in its response to the plan, while Jordan was the most affected immediately, and warned of "the serious consequences of unilateral Israeli measures such as annexation of Palestinian lands."

The writer concluded that Trump's plan was the embodiment of a sense of the ability that drives it, and the balance of absolutely unequal forces between Israelis and Palestinians, and to support the White House fully for Israeli theses, and thus represents a deletion of all United Nations resolutions that patiently woven the international legitimacy network related to the Palestinian issue.

Today - as the author sees it - the Palestinian cause has become in exile, and the Palestinians alone cannot bring it back. Will they make the lives of those who are drained by this humiliation hell? Or will they accept the fate they are being led to?