(CNN) - President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken
with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving
more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries, a remarkable proposal from a sitting US president.
Trump said he asked Jordan’s Abdullah II, a key US partner in the
region, to take in more Palestinians in a Saturday phone call.
“I said to him that I’d love you to take on more, because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Jordan’s state news agency Petra reported the call with Trump, but made
no mention of relocating Palestinians. The kingdom is already home to
more than 2.39 million registered Palestinian refugees, according to the UN.
Trump said he would like both Jordan and Egypt – which borders the
battered enclave – to house people, and that he would speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about the matter on Sunday.
“You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said, adding that there have been
centuries-long conflicts in the region.
He continued: “I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished
and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the
Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think
they could maybe live in peace for a change.”
The president, a former property developer, said that the potential
housing “could be temporary” or “could be long-term.”
As well as killing tens of thousands of people, the 15-month war between
Israel and Hamas has reduced much of Gaza to rubble. Israeli airstrikes
have damaged or destroyed around 60 per cent of buildings, including
schools and hospitals, and around 92 per cent of homes, according to the UN.
Approximately 90% of Gazans have been displaced, and many residents have
been forced to move repeatedly, some more than 10 times, according to
the UN.
There has long been a fear in the region that Israel wants to push Palestinians out of Gaza into neighboring countries – a premise Israel rejects but one supported by far-right factions of its governing coalition.
El-Sisi criticized Israel’s move to evacuate more than a million
residents from northern Gaza in October 2023, characterizing it as part
of a larger plan to rid the entire area of Palestinians.
“The displacement or expulsion of Palestinians from the (Gaza) Strip
into Egypt simply means that a similar situation will also take place – namely the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank to Jordan,” Sisi said, adding that there would be no point in discussing a Palestinian
state, as “the land will be there, but the people won’t.”
Upon taking office this week, Trump rescinded Biden-era sanctions
against Israeli settlers deemed responsible for deadly violence in the
occupied West Bank, in a move welcomed by Israel’s Finance Minister
Bezalel Smotrich, who has argued strenuously for Israel to re-establish
Jewish settlements in Gaza abandoned under an Israeli order in 2005.
Smotrich quickly endorsed Trump’s latest comments, saying “the idea of helping (Gazans) find other places to start new, better lives is a great idea.”
“For years, politicians have proposed unrealistic solutions like
dividing the land and establishing a Palestinian state, which endangered
the existence and security of the only Jewish state in the world, and
only led to bloodshed and suffering for many people,” he said in a
statement released by his spokesperson.
“Only out-of-the-box thinking with new solutions will bring a peace and security solution.”
Trump said earlier this week that he “might” be able to have a role in rebuilding Gaza, praising it as having a “phenomenal location, on the
sea” and “the best weather.”
The comments echoed remarks made by his son-in-law Jared Kushner in
February 2024 when Kushner called the waterfront property in Gaza “very valuable” and suggested Israel should move Palestinians out of Gaza and “clean it up.”
Trump also confirmed he had lifted a Biden-era hold on the provision of 2,000-pound bombs for Israel.
“We released them today and they’ll have them. They paid for them and they’ve been waiting for them for a long time,” he told reporters.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/trump-gaza-strip-jordan-egypt/index.html
Lol. Trump even uses the c-word. This was always coming. The diaspora
and the amusement park in Birkenau. Sorry, make that Gaza. Let's hope
the rest of the world wakes up.
Had the Moslems of America asked Mr Pelle for voting advice in RST, he
would of said:
"You might be disappointed in Mr Biden. I understand that. He has failed
you in Gaza. Him and the small cats of Europe. But in your eagerness to
punish Mr Biden by sitting on the fence or by voting for Jill Stein or
even Trump, consider the fact that the US involvement in ME post WWs has
been an unmitigated disaster regardless of partisanship. From bad to
worse. Nothing will change that. But there are differences. Demmies at
least offer a probability > 0 that there could be some checks and bounds
on Netenyahu and his cabinet of Nazis. With Trump, there will be
collaboration, servicing of the ovens. Collaboration while washing
hands, "it's their war, not ours". Little doubt, collaboration for own
profit as well. Your families and the rest of the world will pay the
price. Make these likelihoods of the future guide your voting instead of
short term disappointments in what is already buried in the past".
--
“We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him. We shouldn’t have listened to him, and we can’t let that happen ever again”.
-- Nikki Haley
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