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The king of Jordan, Abdullah II, told Donald Trump on Tuesday that his country would pick up some 2,000 sick children of Gaza devastated by the war, but backed up against the United States president’s plan to take care of the Palestinian territory and send Its population into exile.
“I reiterated Jordan’s firm position against the displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This is the unified Arab position. Rebuilding Gaza without displacing the Palestinians and addressing the serious situation should be the priority for all,” said Abdullah in the Social networks on social networks. After the conversations.
However, he told Trump that Egypt was working on a plan on how the countries in the region could “work” with Trump in the proposal.
The Jordanian monarch also seemed to offer a sweetener to Trump, who had just the day before the visit floated the possibility of stopping American help to Jordan if he did not take refugees.
“One of the things we can do immediately is to take 2,000 children, children with cancer who are in a very bad state.
Trump replied that it was “really a beautiful gesture” and said he didn’t know before the arrival of the Jordanian monarch to the White House.
The American leader surprised the world when he announced a proposal last week for the United States to take charge “of Gaza, imagining the reconstruction of the devastated territory in the” Riviera del Middle East “, but only after resetting the Palestinians in others places, without plan. So that they ever return.
Abdullah urged patience and said that Egypt was presenting an answer and that the Arab nations would discuss it in the conversations in Riad.
“Hopefully until the Egyptians can come and present it to the president and not get ahead,” said Abdullah.
Trump retired from his previous talk from an aid to Jordan and Egypt, saying: “I don’t have to threaten that. I think we are above that.”
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However, Trump showed that he continued to press his plan to “possess” Gaza despite the fact that it is the home of more than two million Palestinians, saying that it would remain under “US authority.”
“We don’t have to buy. We’re going to have Gaza,” Trump said.
“We are going to take it, we are going to hold it, we will appreciate it.”
But Trump, who made his fortune as a real estate magnate, however, denied that he would seek to personally develop properties in Gaza. “No. I have had a great career in real estate,” he said.
The meeting occurred when the high Gaza’s fire seems increasingly fragile, after Trump warned Monday that “All Hell” would explode if Hamas does not release all hostages for Saturday.
Trump said he doubted that the Palestinian militant group would comply with the ultimatum, but minimized the risk of a longer threat to efforts to create a lasting peace between Israel and Hamas.
“He won’t take a long time,” Trump said. “A thug is the weakest person, and they are thugs. Hamas is a stalker.”
The Jordanian king and the heir prince previously met with Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz.
King Abdullah is a key ally of the United States, but last week he rejected “any attempt” to take control of the Palestinian territories and displace his people.
The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is expected to visit the White House at the end of this week, on Tuesday urged the reconstruction of Gaza “without displacing the Palestinians.”
Analysts say the problem is existential for Jordan in particular.
Half of the population of 11 million Jordan is of Palestinian origin, and since the establishment of Israel in 1948, many Palestinians have sought refuge there.
In 1970, in what was known as “black September”, the clashes between the Jordanian army and the Palestinian groups led by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) broke out.
It resulted in the expulsion of those groups.
But Jordan is also very aware of the economic pressure Trump could exert. Each year, Jordan receives about $ 750 million in Washington Economic Assistance and another $ 350 million in military aid.
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