Egyptian strategic thinker Samir Farag revealed on Saturday that Egypt turned down a US offer to transfer the residents of the Gaza Strip to the Sinai Peninsula in return for having all its debts paid off.
Farag said that during Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s reception of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken just after the Gaza war had first broken out, the US Secretary had renewed his country’s offer.
“The previous US administration obtained the approval of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi,” Faraq noted.
He confirmed that “the US offered Egypt US$125 billion for Egypt to agree to the displacement of Palestinians in Sinai” and that the US would build the city to which the residents of Gaza would be transferred.
Farag added that the US increased the amount offered to Egypt to $150 billion and then assured President Sisi that the US would pay all of Egypt’s debts.
He revealed that “President Sisi rejected all of America’s offers, foiling their plan.”
The Egyptian efforts continued until a ceasefire was finally reached and the Palestinian people remained on their land in Gaza Strip.
Farag pointed out that President Sisi rejected the proposal of the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns the day after the ceasefire and after Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip for Egypt to manage Gaza Strip.
“Egypt rejected the American plan for Egypt to take over the management of Strip and insisted that the Palestinian Authority take over the management of Gaza,” he said, which was agreed upon by the Community Support Committee chosen by the Palestinian Authority.
