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Trump Presses Jordan to Accept Palestinian Refugees from Gaza Amid Ongoing Conflict and Regional Tensions

Trump Presses Jordan to Accept Palestinian Refugees from Gaza Amid Ongoing Conflict and Regional Tensions

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The US President, Donald Trump, has proposed a plan to relocate the population of the Gaza Strip to other countries in the region, including Jordan and Egypt. King Abdullah II has rejected the plan, and instead suggested that the US and Jordan consult with other Arab nations, including Egypt, on a potential solution. The king has also stated that Jordan will take in 2,000 sick children from war-torn Gaza, but has made it clear that his country will not take in the entire population of the Gaza Strip. The US has threatened to withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refuse to accept the displaced Palestinians, but has so far backed down on this suggestion.

King Abdullah II
1. Mr President, I think we have to keep in mind that there is a plan from Egypt and the Arab countries. [We are] being invited by [Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman [of Saudi Arabia] for discussions in Ryidah.
2. Rebuilding Gaza without displacing the Palestinians and addressing the dire humanitarian situation should be the priority for all.
3. I think one of the things that we can do right away is take 2,000 children, cancer children who are in a very ill state, that is possible.
Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1. The kingdom affirms that the Palestinian people have a right to their land, and they are not intruders or immigrants to it who can be expelled whenever the brutal Israeli occupation wishes.
Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. We're going to take it. We're going to hold it, we're going to cherish it. We're going to get it going eventually, where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the Middle East.
2. We're moving them to a beautiful location where they can have new homes, where they can live safely, where they can have doctors and medical and all of those things.
3. I've had a great career in real estate.
4. We'll have lots of good things built there, including hotels and office buildings and housing and other things, and we'll make that site into what it should be.
5. With the United States being in control of that piece of land — that fairly large piece of land — you're going to have stability in the Middle East for the first time.
6. We're not going to buy. There's nothing to buy.
7. I believe we'll have a parcel of land in Jordan. I believe we'll have a parcel of land in Egypt.
8. I don't think they're going to make the deadline personally. I think they want to play a tough guy, but we'll see how tough they are.
9. I think I could make a deal with Egypt. I think I could make a deal with Jordan. We give them billions and billions of dollars a year. I don't hear pushback. A lot of people thought it was a great idea … It would be stabilised if the United States owned the Gaza Strip.
Sebastian Sons
CARPO
1. MBS is not only firmly established but has become very self-confident, which can be also seen by his reaction to the statements by Trump and Netanyahu on Palestinians from Gaza.
2. Saudi Arabia's economic overhaul project Vision 2030 needs to be secured.
3. For Saudi Arabia, normalizing ties with Israel is currently, and the emphasis is on currently, an impossibility.
4. In 2017, a lot of hope was placed in Trump, especially by MBS, who was still consolidating his power.
Anna Jacobs
Arab Gulf States Institute
1. Trump's Gaza plan is going to make Saudi-Israel normalization even more difficult.
2. The Saudis have made their position very clear that the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land is a non-starter.

Trump Presses Jordan to Accept Palestinian Refugees from Gaza Amid Ongoing Conflict and Regional Tensions

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