On Friday, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) adopted an Arab League counterproposal to Donald Trump’s controversial plan to forcibly displace Gazans from the Gaza Strip. The decision by the 57-member group came during an emergency meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, just three days after the Arab League had initially ratified the plan at a summit in Cairo. However, the counterproposal may be largely symbolic, as both Israel and the United States have already rejected it, despite the fact that it does not include any role for Hamas. The U.S. State Department simply stated that the proposal did not meet Washington’s expectations, although the U.S. Middle East envoy described it as a “good faith first step” from Egypt. Morgan Ayre has more.
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