The former Israeli ambassador on the Trump level: “difficult but not unreal”

Transform Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East? “It is a completely new idea, very difficult to make, but not unreal”. It says At Adnkronos the former Israeli ambassador to Italy, Avi Paznercommenting on the controversial proposal launched by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, during a joint press conference in Washington with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

“It seems something very difficult to make, very difficult”, he believes Pazner, according to which Trump’s plan is “completely new” and demonstrates the will of the American president to put his hand “to a problem that has been without a solution for 75 years”.

“The plan? It comes from a completely new way of thinking”

For the former ambassador in Italy, the one launched by Trump is not Boutade. “It is not something that he said about the impulse of the moment, it is a plan that we do not know if it will be possible to progress, but it is certain that at the White House there is a friend of Israel and that wants to strengthen it”, continues Pazner, who speaks of “way of thinking totally new, which shows very large support in Israel by Washington”.

According to the former Israeli ambassador, the idea of ​​the American president has “surprised” everyone in the Jewish state, where “there are people who think it is a possible solution, others think that it cannot be done, while there is not yet An official reaction of the government.

The position of the Arab countries

With regard to the reactions of the Arab countries, all compact for the moment in condemning the Trump plan for Gaza, Pazner suggests that These positions – in his opinion – could change. “We must study and see the reactions of the Arab countries that are negative for the moment,” he explains, remembering that next week he is expected at the White House King Abdullah II of Jordan, one of the countries where Trump would like to transfer part of the Palestinians of Gaza. “I don’t know if this proposal will be accompanied by great American help to Jordan to carry out this project,” he concludes.