On Monday, President Trump said he could cut aid in Jordan and Egypt if they had refused his request to permanently assume most of the Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on the key allies of the region to support his bold proposal to transfer The entire population of the population of the territory to redevelop it.
“If they did not agree, I would conceively retain help,” Trump told journalists in the Oval Office a day before a meeting with the King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Both Jordan and Egypt rejected any suggestion that the Palestinians were transferred to their countries.
Mr. Trump doubled the idea of forced displacement of about two million Palestinians, a move that some scholars said that he is equivalent to a war crime and ethnic cleaning. In an interview with Fox News broadcast on Monday, Trump said he did not imagine the Palestinians who left Gaza to be part of the redevelopment plan.
In the interview he asked if the Palestinians would finally “have the right to return” to Gaza after his proposed construction projects had been completed, the president said: “No, they wouldn’t do it”.
As for where they could go, he said: “I think I can make an agreement with Jordan. I think I can make an agreement with Egypt. “
Mr. Trump’s proposal has sent shock waves throughout the Middle East and will certainly dominate the meeting with the Leader Giordano during a particularly volatile period in the region.
The president declared from the White House that if Hamas did not release all the remaining Israeli hostages within south of Saturday, the ceased agreement with Israel should be canceled.
“All of Hell is about to burst,” said Trump, recognizing that the choice to finish the ceased in the end fell into Israel.
The observations of Mr. Trump on the transfer plan increased the pressure on King Abdullah, who would probably have overwhelmed in his domestic crisis if the Palestinians were forced into Jordan. It is estimated that more than half of the population of Jordan is Palestinian; The nation is already shocked by the tensions between citizens of Palestinian origin and those who are not, the analysts say.
“What Mr. Trump has done is to put the future of the kingdom of Jordan in line,” said Khalil Jahhan, executive director of the Arab Center Washington DC “The strongest political movement in Jordan does not accept the idea that Jordan is Palestine “
The King Abdullah was supposed to meet Steven Witkoff, Trump’s correspondent in the Middle East, who made a rare trip to Gaza last month, becoming the oldest official’s official to do it in many years.
The fact that the president is willing to apply pressure to the key allies in the region also indicates that it has little intention to back away from his ideas in rapid resistance on the property of the United States of the territory devastated by the war and the displacement of the Palestinians.
In the interview with Bret Baier of Fox News, Trump provided his largest comments on how he imagines to move the population of Gaza to Jordan, Egypt and other nations in the region.
“We will build safe community a little far from where I am where all this danger is located,” he said. “In the meantime, I would possess it. Think of as a real estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land. “
Once transferred, he said, the Palestinians “would have a much better accommodation” than they have in Gaza and should not have returned.
“I’m talking about building a permanent place for them,” said Trump.