Palestinian Historian Salman Abu Sitta said in a May 28, 2019 interview with Al-Jazeera network (Qatar) that the Americans' desire to improve the Palestinians' economic situation is like when the Germans in Auschwitz would promise to feed their prisoners two meals a day instead of one. He said that the Americans want to keep the Palestinians enslaved and hungry and without a homeland or an identity. Abu Sitta said that even the fact that such a thing is being proposed is humiliating to every Arab, every Palestinian, and every free person, and that it does not make sense for Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan to remain disconnected from Egypt. He added that the Palestinians' enemies must be dreaming because they will not succeed "under any circumstances."