Potential American ownership of the Gaza Strip

[3] The proposal has received negative reception from several nations and organizations, contrasting with strong support from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[6][7] On 21 February 2025, after opposition from Arab states, Trump said he would "recommend" but not enforce his plan for the American takeover of Gaza and the re-settlement of the Palestinian population.

It also includes scenes of bearded men dancing in bikinis, Trump enjoying a belly dancer, and a figure resembling Elon Musk being showered with cash.

"[33] The Economist suggested that the video typifies a new form of political communication, where "knowingly absurd" AI-generated content conveys controversial ideas under the plausible deniability of humor.

[34] Quincy Institute's political scientist Annelle Sheline has argued that Trump's plan for Gaza would not only constitute ethnic cleansing, but would also destabilise the Middle East, since the displacement of Palestinians into Jordan would provoke a period of social upheaval that could topple the Jordanian monarchy and create an entirely new state in the region.

[35] This view has been supported by Paul Piller (fellow at the Quincy Institute) who argued that the displacement of Palestinians into Jordan would effectively end the Jordanian-Israeli peace agreement of 1994 and risk the overthrow of the Jordanian monarchy.

[36] Oraib Rantawi, head of the Amman Al Quds Center for Political Studies, said the plan would affect Jordan’s demography, identity, and security.

[37] Egyptian officials warned that the inflow of hundreds of thousands of Hamas militants into the Sinai border resulting from the plan would destabilize the region and put Egypt’s peace agreement with Israel in jeopardy.

[38] Also at the Quincy Institute, Rabwan Ahari has argued that Trump's proposal signals a clear and substantial departure from America having "even the pretense of supporting a two-state solution.

[40] The Brookings Institute's Natan Sachs reiterates this point and adds that the proposal would be incredibly difficult and expensive to pull off, as well as risking "the implementation of the second phase of the ceasefire-hostage deal.

[42] CNN's Stephen Collinson wrote that the plan would also be unpopular at home in the US, given that, in his words, Trump "partly owes his rise to a political base wearied by sending its sons and daughters to war in the post-9/11 era.

"[43] fr:Dominique Vidal, a French expert on the Middle East, compared this proposal to the Madagascar Plan, a prelude to the Final Solution.

[6] Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Gazan analyst and Atlantic Council fellow, said that Trump’s vision could not believably be considered an option and that it was transparently impossible.

[11] The New York Times reported the funding for the plan remains unclear as Gulf states will be reluctant to invest in rebuilding Gaza only to see it destroyed again if violence returns.

When asked if Trump supported the Arab leaders' plan, a White House spokesman said that the current Arab plan does not address that Gaza is "currently uninhabitable" for Palestinians to live in to due to the amount of debris and unexploded ordinance, adding that "President Trump stands by his vision to rebuild Gaza free from Hamas.

The foreign ministers of Germany, France, Italy and the UK released a joint statement on 8 March supporting the Arab plan for Gaza.

[51] On 9 March, Israel’s far-right minister of finance Bezalel Smotrich told Israeli parliament that he was pushing for Trump’s original plan.