An exodus of Palestinians in their lands has always been the nightmare of King Abdallah of Jordan and the Egyptian President Al-Sisi. The most worried are the Giordani, who already host 2 million and 400 thousand Palestinians on their small kingdom. But now the two Middle Eastern leaders have to deal with Donald Trump who during the weekend said he spoke with the king of Jordan of the possibility of building accommodation and transferring more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries,
“It is literally a demolition site, almost everything has been demolished and people are dying there, so I would prefer to be involved with some of the Arab nations and build accommodation in a different place where perhaps they can live in peace for a change”. Trump in added that could be a temporary or even long -term solution.
The Giordana state press agency, Petra, reported the call with Trump, but did not make any reference to the transfer of the Palestinians. On the other hand, it is known how the sovereign Hashemita thinks, who, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly last September, had assured that Jordan will never become “an alternative homeland” for the Palestinians. The risks of destabilization for a moderate country such as Jordan would be too strong.
It is not clear whether the President of the United States has formally made the request to Egypt, but his Foreign Ministry has rejected any effort of this type “both through settlements or annexations of lands, and eviction the Palestinians from their lands through the transfer or encouraging the transfer or uprooting of the Palestinians from their lands, both temporarily and in the long term “.
“In any case, Egypt and Jordan are absolutely not interested in accepting even a single Palestinian refugee, nor permanently or temporary way. The inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are considered to be struggled by their friends of other Islamic nations. Everyone speaks of their suffering, from the Emir of Qatar to the president of Egypt, who are willing to send them money – but to accept people? There is a limit, and they will respect it with determination, “wrote the editorialist Chaim Levinson in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Instead there is the Trump’s proposal is the far -right Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrichwho accused the 2.4 million people who live in Gaza of “glorifying terrorism”: “The idea of helping them to find other places to start a better life is an excellent idea. After years of glorification of terrorism , will be able to establish new and good lives in other places, “said Smotrich in a press release.
Trump’s proposal will be likely to fall into thin air. In him he must have prevailed the eye of the palazzinaro unscrupulous with respect to the forward -looking vision that a statesman should have. And in any case such a proposal is not new in the Trump family tour. A year ago the son -in -law of the president, Jared Kushnerhe had declared that a “property on the Lungomare di Gaza could be very precious”. Those 40 kilometers of land overlooking the Mediterranean make a throat to many.
Interviewed by Middle East EyeArdi Imeseis, professor of international law at Queen’s University and former United Nations Officer, said that “the desire of President Trump to ‘transfer’ ‘Palestinians from the Gaza Gaza Strip is as illegal as it is unrelated”. “According to the International humanitarian law and international criminal law “, he added,” individual forced or mass forced transfers, as well as deportations of people protected by the territory occupied to the territory of the occupying power or that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited , regardless of their reason “.
