Divya Delhi: Netanyahu hailed Trump's suggestion “remarkable.” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he ordered the army to organize for the voluntary withdrawal of Gaza inhabitants. I applaud Trump's bold strategy. Katz remarked on X, "Gaza residents should be allowed to leave and emigrate, as is the norm worldwide." He also proposed that Spain, Ireland, Norway, and other anti-Gaza military nations accept Palestinians.Trump's declaration has been condemned by many, including Arab nations, China, Russia, Germany, Spain, Norway, and Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation.But the idea is logical. Trump is a real estate mogul whose election promise was to Make America Great Again. He and the GOP are Israel's best ally. Gaza and Israel have lots of offshore natural gas. His prior administration took the daring move of transferring the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, something the world has mostly opposed.S President Trump has proposed a shocking Gaza plan as one of his first foreign policy steps. He suggested that the US take over Gaza and reconstruct it while Jordan and Egypt take in its 2 million residents immediately after a truce was reached between Israel and Hamas on January 25.Still, Trump's Gaza plan shocked the globe. The Trump administration was notable for not starting any new wars. Even tensions with Iran were kept under control, with both sides avoiding escalation. Moreover, Trump had taken personal interest in facilitating peace in the Middle East. In 2019, Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and then-advisor, had launched an economic peace initiative, hosted by the Gulf state of Bahrain. A year later, under his watch, the Abraham Accords were reached, which comprised the normalisation of relations between Israel and the UAE first, and then between Israel and Bahrain, and Morocco. The Saudi-Israeli rail also advanced. Trump's recent electoral success is partly due to discontent with the Democrats for failing to mediate a truce between Israel and Hamas. Many Arab and Muslim voters turned to the Republicans. Trump 2.0 was expected to help regional peace. But his Gaza "plans" may change this.Alarm bells have rung in Arab capitals. The foreign ministers of the UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, and Palestinian presidential adviser Hussein Al Sheikh, signed a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denouncing plans to remove Palestinians from Gaza. Egypt and Jordan, the US's closest allies and Trump's first choice for resettling Gaza's two million people, have both refused. Egypt's foreign ministry warned, “This reckless act will ruin ceasefire talks and restart fighting.”Jordan likewise refuses to expel Palestinians from Gaza and relocate them in Jordan, according Reuters. “This is existential. Jordan can't consider it due to overwhelming popular resistance. “It's an identity issue, not an economic or security issue for Jordan,” said Marwan Muasher, a former Jordanian foreign minister who helped negotiate Jordan's 1994 peace accord with Israel.These two frontline governments have taken in millions of refugees from previous Arab-Israeli wars and are concerned about the security and economic effects of new Palestinian arrivals. Both get considerable US aid: Jordan gets roughly $1.45 billion in US military and economic support a year, and Egypt received $1.43 billion in . Trump will likely link this help to his Gaza intentions.But the whole area fears mass Palestinian displacement and expulsion from their homes, which might cause more bloodshed. All have waged insurgencies and terrorism, while some like Jordan and Lebanon had found themselves mired in war because of Palestinians who had moved there. Most of them oppose the Muslim Brotherhood, which Hamas is part of, except Qatar and Kuwait.The Gulf governments have given liberally to the Palestinians and are invested in a two-state solution while striving to normalize ties with Israel. For example, the UAE's decision to normalize relations with Israel was tied to the delay of Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Saudi Arabia will be the focus now.The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the leader of the Muslim and Arab world, which has prevented it from normalizing relations with Israel. But this has also been contested. It has also given billions to the Palestinians, Jordan, Egypt, and other regional nations. In 2002, during the second intifada, it advocated the Saudi peace plan: full Arab recognition of Israel for a two-state solution. It has firmly linked normalizing ties with Israel to a Palestinian state. It is a staunch American friend that said last month it will invest $600 billion in the US over the next four years of Trump's presidency., soon after the Trump-Netanyahu press conference, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement reaffirming the Kingdom's unwavering stance on the Palestinian issue, saying that its position on the establishment of a Palestinian state was “firm and non-negotiable”, and that it will not establish relations with Israel without the creation of a Palestinian state, which “is not subject to negotiation or compromise”. The statement further claimed, "Saudi Arabia will keep trying to create an independent Palestinian state and won't have diplomatic ties with Israel without it." It also said it "reaffirms its unequivocal rejection of any infringement on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people....or attempts to displace the Palestinian people from their land." It said that this stance was communicated to past and present US governments.At a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Trump reiterated his goal to annex and transform Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East." As his administration scrambled to downplay it, on Thursday, Trump reiterated the idea, clarifying on his Truth Social platform that the “Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting”, while Palestinians “would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region”. He said, "No US soldiers needed!"