President Trump said on Monday that he could reduce help for Jordan and Egypt if they had rejected his demand to permanently collect most Palestinians from Gaza, which significantly increases the pressure on key allies in the region to support his bold proposal To move the entire population of the population to renovate.
The President also said from the White House, if Hamas do not publish all remaining Israeli hostages at 12 p.m. on Saturday, the ceasefire contract with Israel should be canceled.
“Hell will break out,” said Mr. Trump to reporters in the Oval Office and recognized that the election finally fell to Israel about the end of the ceasefire.
Jordan and Egypt, both important recipients of the US military and economic aid, rejected the proposal that Palestinians are moved to their countries. But Mr. Trump said on Monday that help could be in danger.
“If you do not agree, I would possibly hold back the help,” he said reporters in response to a question a day before a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Mr. Trump expanded the idea of the forced expulsion of around two million Palestinians, a step that some scholars would have said a war crime and ethnic cleaning. In an interview with the FOX News show on Monday, Mr. Trump said that he had not imagined no Palestinians who left Gaza to make room for the renovation plan that had ever returned.
In the interview, asked whether the Palestinians would finally have the right to return to Gaza after completing his proposed construction projects, “said the president:” No, they don’t. “
What they could go, he said: “I think I could do a deal with Jordan. I think I could make a deal with Egypt. “
Mr. Trump’s proposal sent shock waves in the Middle East and will certainly dominate the meeting with the Jordanian guide during a particularly volatile period in the region.
Mr. Trump’s statements about the resettlement plan have triggered the pressure on King Abdullah, who probably went into his own domestic crisis if Palestinians were forced to Jordan.
More than half of the population of Jordans is estimated as Palestinian. The nation is already unsettled Through tensions between citizens of Palestinian descent and those who are not, analysts say.
“What Mr. Trump has done is the future of the Kingdom of Jordan jeoparded”. “”
Before meeting Mr. Trump in the White House, King Abdullah should meet with Steven Witkoff, Mr. Trump’s envoy in the Middle East. He should also meet with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, Mr. Trump’s national security advisor.
The fact that the president is ready to put pressure on key allies in the region also indicates that he has little intention to withdraw from his rapidly hardening ideas about the US property of the territory torn by the war and the displacement of the Palestinians.
In an interview with Bret Baier von Fox News, Mr. Trump made his most extensive comments on how he imagines the population of the Gaza Strip in Jordan, Egypt and other nations in the region.
“We will build a little bit of the place where you are there, build safe communities where all this danger exists,” he said. “In the meantime, I would have that. Imagine this as a real estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land. “
Once moved, he said, the Palestinians have “much better accommodation” than in Gaza and would not have to return.
“I’m talking about building a permanent place for you,” said Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump’s proposal was not vetted by the president’s top advisers before he unveiled it last Week, and some white house officials had soud to soften it, insisting that he had not committed to use using using using to clear the territory and that any relocation of Palestinians Would be temporary.
But Mr. Trump has repeatedly returned to the idea and said that other nations in the region would pay for the military to deliver Israel’s military security and that it was feasible to move the population elsewhere.
The implementation of such a proposal is strongly rejected by both Egypt and Jordan. Cairo has pushed back Palestinian refugees from security concerns. Militants could target Israel from Egyptian soil, invite Israeli retaliation or recruit the local uprising in the Sinai.
At the same time, Jordan’s monarchy has a tense story with militant Palestinian factions.
The outermost right in Israel has long claimed that the Palestinians from Gaza are forced and that the West Bank in Jordan should be used again. The assumption of Palestinians from Gaza would point out the Jordanians that Israel would then try to push people from the West Bank.
“Obviously, the king cannot take these people,” said James Jeffrey, Mr. Trump’s former Syria envoy. “This is an existential problem for him.”
“This would be a regime killer,” said Jeffrey.
The Jordanian king himself could try to make the forced expulsion of the Palestinians destabilize the region of the Middle East and the efforts of the United States to bring Saudi Arabia to get Arab countries.
But Jordan, like Egypt, is also one of the leading recipients of the US military aid and delivers Mr. Trump in his dialogue with King Abdullah.
Before the meeting, Mr. Trump meant to double his proposal that the king had a challenging visit to Washington.
“All of this rattles in the head of the king,” said Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former analyst and negotiator of the Middle East to the Foreign Ministry. “The king will try to find a way to listen to the passport.”
“I think the king hopes that he can avoid a ball,” said Miller.
Ephratar Livni Contribution to reporting from Washington.
