Mubarak sees Trump’s Middle East peace plan as cause for concern: Recent developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are cause for concern that US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan will be tough for the Arab world to swallow, former president Hosni Mubarak tells Kuwait’s Al Anba in an interview. Mubarak points to the US deciding to recognize Jerusalem as the official Israeli capital last year as an indicator that the groundwork is currently being laid for other unilateral decisions against Palestine and the region. According to the former president, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously tried to float the idea of creating a new Palestine in Gaza, with a piece of Egypt’s Sinai thrown in. Mubarak says he rejected the proposal and told Netanyahu that the revival of any such proposal would cause Egypt and Israel to go to war once again. Mubarak also spoke extensively during the interview about how Egypt rekindled relations with Arab countries after the peace treaty with Israel and the behind-the-scenes details of the Iraq-Gulf War.

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