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Egypt is leading the race for an alternative to a Trump plan for the Gaza Strip that is unpopular across the Arab world.

President Donald Trump’s plan to uproot more than two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip — relocating them to neighboring Arab states and remaking the territory as a Middle Eastern “Riviera” — has had one clear real-world impact already: It’s rocked Arab states around the region and forced them to reconsider an endgame to the latest eruption of Palestinian — Israeli violence.