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Jordan King Abdullah II on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s proposal that his country absorbs the Palestinians living in Gaza, saying that he opposed a plan that Mr. Trump has presented to clear the territory so that the United States can take advantage of his control.
During a “constructive” meeting with the president of the United States at the White House, said King Abdullah, “reiterated Jordan’s firm position against the displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.”
“This is the unified Arab position,” he said in a publication on social networks after the meeting. “Gaza’s reconstruction without displacing the Palestinians and addressing the serious humanitarian situation should be the priority for all.”
His statement came hours after Trump insisted that the United States had the authority to “take” Gaza, part of an effort to press the leader of Jordan and other Arab nations to embrace forced elimination, which has attracted a conviction generalized.
“We will have Gaza,” Trump said while sat next to Abdullah and the heir prince Hussein de Jordan. “It is an area devastated by war. Let’s take it. We are going to hold it. Let’s appreciate it. “
Abdullah turned largely when journalists asked him about Mr. Trump’s proposal, describing the president as a force for peace in the region and saying that Jordan was prepared to help sick Palestinian children.
But according to his statement, Mr. Abdullah was more direct with Mr. Trump in private.
“Achieving only peace based on the solution of two states is the way to guarantee regional stability,” said King Abdullah in the position. “This requires the leadership of us.”
The meeting occurred a week after Trump declared that he wanted the United States to take control of Gaza and wanted Jordan and Egypt to resettle the approximately two million Palestinians who call him home. Both Jordan and Egypt rejected the idea when Trump raised it last week at a press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In statement On social networks on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country would work with the United States in a “only settlement of the Palestinian cause”, but reiterated that the Palestinians should be able to remain in their homeland.
The meeting with King Abdullah amounted not only to a fundamental moment for a key ally in the Middle East, but more widely for the future of Gaza.
The conversations occurred when the high fire agreement in the war in the Gaza Strip seemed to be at risk of breaking. Mr. Netanyahu warned Hamas on Tuesday that if they were not the hostages at noon on Saturday, then Israeli troops would resume “intense fighting.” His statement echoed an ultimatum that Trump issued Monday night and again on Tuesday, which Hamas would need to free all the remaining hostages before Saturday at noon.
“Or they have them to leave on Saturday at 12 o’clock or all bets are disabled,” Trump said.
Hamas has accused Israel to break a promise to send hundreds of thousands of tents to Gaza, an claim that three Israeli officials and two mediators said it was precise. However, the Israeli military unit that supervises help deliveries has said that Hamas’ claims are “completely false accusations.”
The fragility of Alto El Fuego, as well as Mr. Trump’s proposal for the forced displacement of the Palestinians, have put Arab leaders in the “reaction mode”, according to Jonathan Panikoff, the director of the SECURA SECURITY INITIATIVE SCOWCRoft Middle EAST in the Atlantic Council. .
“All leaders in the region are trying to balance what they see as an increasingly unstable situation,” said Panikoff. “There has always been conflict now for almost a year and a half and has never decreased completely. But now he has a president of the United States who has threatened actions that would add querosene to a burning fire. “
Trump in recent days has fell his unlikely proposal to permanently reassure most of the Palestinians, while the United States would receive control of the territory by Israel and then rebuild it in a work and tourism center. Trump has been talking in deprived of the notion of the United States taking control of Gaza for several weeks, according to several people who have spoken with him.
Mr. Trump increased the pressure on Egypt and Jordan on the eve of King Abdullah’s visit when he said he could reduce help to Jordan unless he refer to the Palestinians. Once resettled, Mr. Trump has said, those Palestinians would not have the right to return to Gaza. When asked how the Palestinians would force to leave Gaza, Trump shrugged. “They will be great,” he said. “They will be very happy.”
American Aid to Jordan, including military aid, is currently frozen as part of Trump Alto for foreign assistance worldwide. Even so, King Abdullah faced the difficult task of trying to protect the more than $ 1.5 billion in foreign aid that Jordan receives from the United States at the same time that Trump tries to retrace his demands for the massive elimination of the Palestinians.
Trump seemed to return his suggestion that he would reduce Jordan aid on Tuesday, saying: “We are above that.”
The monarchy is concerned that accepting an influx of approximately two million refugees could inflame tensions between citizens of Palestinian descent and those who are not, analysts say. More than half of the 12 million subjects of King Abdullah are of Palestinian descent. Jordan is already home to approximately 700,000 refugees, most of them Syrians who flew from the civil war of that country.
The Jordan Parliament presented last week a bill that would prohibit the resettlement of the Palestinians in the country. King Abdullah could try to convince Mr. Trump that his hope of getting the Palestinians from Gaza would complicate the broadest efforts of his administration so that Saudi Arabia joined Trump’s Abraham 2020 agreements, which established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries.
Instead that he initially retreated publicly over Trump, King Abdullah seemed to try to placate the president saying that Jordan would take 2,000 Palestinian children suffering from cancer and other diseases. Trump responded happily to the statement, describing her as a “beautiful gesture”, despite the fact that foreign policy analysts said Jordan had previously pointed out that he would take sick children from Gaza.
Brian Katulis, the main member of the Middle East Institute, said the offer of King Abdullah extracted from a well -established “play book used by Arab leaders when they deal with Trump.
Arab leaders, he said, “know how to placate Trump, and then work with serious people in their team who have the work of making sense of their nonsense.”
Michael Crowley Contributed reports.
