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The suggestion of President Donald Trump that Egypt and Jordan take Palestinians from the Warravaged Strip are probably a hard “no” of the two allies of the United States.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump. Reuters image
The suggestion of President Donald Trump that Egypt and Jordan take the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip devastated by the war are probably a hard “no” of the two allies of the United States and the Palestinians themselves who fear that Israel never never Allows them to return.
Trump floated the idea on Saturday, saying that he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to host the population of Gaza to a large extent without home, so that “we simply clean all that.” He added that the Gaza resettlement population “could be temporary or temporary or temporary or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporal or temporary term “.
“It is literally a demolition site at this time,” Trump said, referring to the vast destruction caused by the 15 -month military campaign of Israel against Hamas, now detained by a fragile high fire.
“I prefer to get involved with some of the Arab nations and build homes in a different place, where they may live in peace to vary,” Trump said.
There were no immediate comments from Egypt, Jordan, Israel or Palestinian officials.
It is likely that the idea is welcome by Israel, where the extreme right -wing ruling partners of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have advised for a long time in what they describe as the voluntary migration of a large number of Palestinians and the restoration of Jewish settlements in Gaza .
Human rights groups have already accused Israel of ethnic cleaning, that United Nations experts have defined as a policy designed by an ethnic or religious group to eliminate the civilian population of another group of certain areas “by violent and inspiring means of terror. “
Before and during the 1948 war that surrounds the creation of Israel, some 700,000 Palestinians, the majority of the population before the war, fled or were expelled from their homes in what is now Israel, an event that commemorates as they commemorate Nakba, Arab for catastrophe.
Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority inside its borders. The refugees and their descendants now add up to 6 million, with large communities in Gaza, where they constitute the majority of the population, as well as in Western West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria occupied by Israel.
In the Middle East War of 1967, when Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 300,000 Palestinians more fled, mainly Jordan.
The refugee crisis of decades has been an important driver of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and was one of the most thorny problems in the peace conversations that were last broken in 2009. The Palestinians claim a return right, while Israel says which should be absorbed by surrounding Arab countries.
Many Palestinians see the last war in Gaza, in which entire neighborhoods have been bombarded to oblivion and 90% of the population of 2.3 million has been forced from their homes, as a new Nakba. They fear that if a large number of Palestinians leave Gaza, then they can’t return either.
Egypt and Jordan fiercely rejected the idea of accepting Gaza refugees at the beginning of the war, when it was floated by some Israeli officials.
Both countries have made peace with Israel, but support the creation of a Palestinian state in West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, Israel territories captured in the Middle East War of 1967. They fear that the permanent displacement of the population of Gaza can make That is impossible.
The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, also warned about the security implications of transferring a large number of Palestinians to the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, which border Gaza.
Hamas and other militant groups are deeply rooted in Palestin a cornerstone of regional stability.
“The peace we have achieved would disappear from our hands,” said El-Sissi in October 2023, after Hamas’ attack against South Israel triggered war. “Everything for the sake of eliminating the Palestinian cause.”
That is what happened in Lebanon in the 1970s, when the Palestine Liberation Organization of Yasser Arafat, the main militant group of its time, transformed the south of the country into a launch launch for attacks against Israel. The refugee crisis and the actions of the PLO helped to push Lebanon to a civil war of 15 years in 1975. Israel invaded twice and occupied the south of Lebanon from 1982 to 2000.
Jordan, who faced the PLO and expelled it in similar circumstances in 1970, already houses more than 2 million Palestinian refugees, most of which citizens have been awarded.
Israeli ultra -nationalists have long suggested that Jordan is considered a Palestinian state so that Israel can keep the West Bank, who consider the biblical heart of the Jewish people. Jordan’s monarchy has vehemently rejected that scenario.
That depends on how serious Trump is about the idea and to what extent he is prepared to arrive.
American tariffs, one of Trump’s favorite economic tools, or direct sanctions could be devastating for Jordan and Egypt. The two countries receive billions of dollars in American help every year, and Egypt is already mired in an economic crisis.
But allowing an influx of refugees could also be destabilizing. Egypt says that it is currently organizing about 9 million migrants, including refugees from the Civil War of Sudan. Jordan, with a population of less than 12 million, is organizing more than 700,000 refugees, mainly from Syria.
The pressure of the United States would also run the risk of alienating the key allies in the region with which Trump has had good relations, not only the King of El-Sissi and Jordan Abdullah II, but the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, all of which support the Palestinian cause.
That would potentially complicate efforts to negotiate a historical agreement between Saudi and Israel Arabia to normalize relationships, something Trump tried to do during his previous mandate and expects to complete in his current.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED -Associated Press Union News Agency)
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