When Donald Trump took office, Abd al-Fattah in Egypt may expected Sisi-a man who was once described by the American president as his “favorite dictator”-better relations with Washington.

Trump’s return helped stimulate the suspension of fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, and stopped for more than a year of conflict on the borders of Egypt. Houthi militants said that they will be limited to the attacks to ship the Red Sea, which raises the possibility that ships return to the Suez Canal and reduce the cost they cost Egypt An estimated $ 7 billion in revenue last year.

He has gone down since then. The restart of Israel last month fighting in Gaza, the hopes of Scuppering at an imminent end war. The Houthis and strikes resumed, encouraging tensions across the Red Sea. Trump has repeatedly suggested that the Gaza population of 2.2 million in Jordan and Egypt will be expelled, which would pose a severe and annoying threat.

All this Egyptian president has left in a particularly difficult position because he does not try to angered the unprecedented American president and transactions with the leadership of diplomatic efforts to find an alternative peace plan for Gaza.

“He was playing his hand very carefully,” said Merritt Maprk, an older colleague at the Middle East Institute in Washington. “At the end of the day, President Trump has a way to raise the normal rules.”

Egypt has long relied on American support, as Washington provided 1.3 billion dollars annually from military aid and helping it securing the International Monetary Fund loan worth $ 8 billion last year and ignored the economic collapse. This was partially in appreciation of the Egyptian intermediate role to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, but also to stabilize the economy of the most populated Arab nation.

While the relations were lukewarm during the era of Barack Obama, Trump’s first period brought a welcome improvement to Sisi, a former general who took power in a popular coup in 2013 against an elected Islamic president. Trump has twice the Egyptian president to the White House, describing him as “my favorite dictator” at the 2019 summit.

But facilitating Trump’s explosive plan to photograph and take over Gaza – converting it to “Riviera in the Middle East” – is an impossible proposal for any Arab leader.

Analysts say that the Egyptian and Arab public opinion is considered a traitor to the Palestinian issue, and it swears an opposition and instability. Former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Islamic militants in 1981 partially due to the anger at the normalization of relations with Israel.

However, Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled. At a meeting at the White House last week, Trump repeated his claim that Gaza, “an incredible piece of important real estate”, should be under the control of the United States.

Since the beginning of the war in October 2023, Egypt has been afraid that Israel’s final goal was to push the Palestinians across the border to the Sinai desert.

More than two -thirds of Gaza under eviction orders, while Israel has prevented all aid from entering since the beginning of March and announced a new directorate to oversee “voluntary” immigration in Ghazan. Cairo accused him of using “hunger as a weapon”.

Netanyahu said at the White House that Ghazan should be given a choice to leave and that Israel was not detained, in reference to Egypt’s refusal to allow population transport.

Michael Wahid Hanna said in the group of international crises that the deteriorating conditions in Gaza during the era of the Israeli attack and it seems to be a prelude to the transfer of its people completely.

“If you look at the speech [in Washington] And you see what is happening on the ground in Gaza and what the Israelis say, it is difficult to think that transportation and population are not at the heart of this.

Sisi declined to criticize the American president, saying only that he “will not participate in an injustice towards the Palestinians.”

He even sought to flatter Trump. He said in January when Trump spoke for the first time about the transportation plan, which was widely convicted around the world as an ethnic cleansing.

Instead, Sisi tried to mobilize international support for an alternative plan to rebuild Gaza and ensure that Palestinians can stay on their land, with limited success.

He received the support of the Arab League, and with warnings, the European Union to obtain a proposal to rebuild Gaza through a committee of Palestinian technocrats who would exclude Hamas and eventually hand over the government to the Palestinian Authority, which runs parts of the occupied West Bank.

But the United States and Israel refused this, saying that it does not address the disarmament of the Hamas militants or ensure their departure, which is what the Arab public opinion is conducted as cooperation with the occupation.

Hanna said: “Egypt recognizes the restrictions imposed on the plan, but it cannot provide it more on basic issues … without much broader diplomatic support.”

SISI realizes that Trump’s challenge can come at a high cost. In February, the US President hinted that he could cut military aid from Egypt and Jordan after their leaders refused to propose.

Although Trump later seemed to decline, his patience could prove limited. In leakage Reference chat Among the American officials discussing the attack last month on the Houthis, the official said that the administration should “clarify” what it expected from Egypt “in return.”

Despite all of this, Maprok said that the risks of agreeing to resettle the Palestinians who were forced from Gaza outperformed the rewards.

And she said: “The Egyptians will not hold, because there is nothing that the United States can impose worse than it will happen if they agreed to the residents of Gaza.”