President Donald Trump’s proposal to “clean out” Gaza has sparked a backlash from the Arab nations he would need to help implement it.
Egypt and Jordan have opposed Trump’s plan to reassure the Palestinians in their country, saying not to reach peace sought through many in the region, according to their foreign ministries. Trump’s concept caused a generalized opposition from other unquoted people, and one of his allies also marked the plan as “not too practical. “
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Newsweek reached out to the Egyptian and Jordanian ministries for comment via email.
Trump requested several events at the end of the Gaza War and promised to facilitate the fire of his electoral race in 2024, attracting the help of Pro-Israelí and Pro-Palestinian voters. But his proposal to “clean” Gaza faced a fierce reaction, some parts at war call it “ethnic cleaning. ” Trump said such population motion can only be transitionality or long -term.
The shock of decades in the Middle East has been one of the world’s most intractable. Many attempts to finish it, adding proposals for a solution of two states with a Palestinian state throughout Israel, have proven to be incomprehensible.
Some 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced since the war in Gaza began, following Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Amnesty International.
Since the start of the conflict, more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Hamas health authorities. Israel denies targeting civilians in its attacks.
Trump introduced his plan to “clean out” Gaza in a 20-minute interview with reporters aboard Air Force One, saying that the region is a “demolition site right now.” Trump said he would “rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
The president proposed to reinstall Palestinian refugees in Egypt and Jordan and said: “You are probably talking about one million and a part of people, and we bleach and say:” You know, it’s over. “
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry responded to Trump’s proposal, stating that they “affirmed the club of Egypt to the limitations and determinants of the political regulations of the Palestinian issue, stressing that it remains the center of the Middle East, and that the installation in the facility of the facility of the facility of the facility of the facility of the facility of the facility of the facility of the facility of of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of its regulations, of its regulations.
Cairo has rejected “any infringement on these inalienable rights, whether through [Israeli] settlement expansion, land annexation, or the removal of Palestinians from their land through resettlement, encouragement of transfer, or uprooting, whether temporary or long-term.”
Egypt added that it considers these movements as a risk to “stability, a precaution of a prolonged regional shock and an impediment to the probabilities of peace and coexistence between the peoples of the region. “
Egypt ruled Gaza until the 1967 Middle East War, in which it was captured by Israel along with the then Jordanian-run West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Jordan has also opposed the concept of Trump, and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi spoke about it a joint press convention with Sigrid Kaag, the humanitarian and the reconstruction of the United Nations for Gazán in Amman on January 26.
Safadi said that “the stability of the Palestinians in their land is a consistent Jordanian that has not replaced and will not change. “He added that Jordan’s position that the two-state solution is the way to achieve peace is companionship and immutable. The rejection of displacement is company and immutable. This is not only a posture of the company and the company from which the kingdom deviates, but it is also necessary to achieve the security, stability, and peace that we all want. He also noted that Amman looks forward to running with the Trump administration.
Trump Senator Ally Lindsay Graham said the concept that the Palestinians leave the Gaza Strip to live are not practical.
Jordan has registered more than 2. 39 million Palestine refugees, according to the UN.
The Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the leader of the Religious Zionism party, said in a statement published by the Times of Israel: “After 76 years during which the majority of Gaza’s population has been forcibly kept in harsh conditions to preserve the aspiration of destroying the State of Israel, the idea of helping them find other places to start new, better lives is an excellent idea.”
“For years, politicians have proposed impractical solutions like dividing the land and establishing a Palestinian state, which endangered the existence and security of the world’s only Jewish state, leading only to bloodshed and suffering for many. Only out-of-the-box thinking and new solutions will bring about peace and security. With God’s help, I will work with the prime minister and the cabinet to develop an operational plan to implement this as soon as possible.”
Assal Rad, Middle East historian and foreign policy analyst, posted on X, formerly Twitter: “Does no one in the media know what it’s called when you ‘clean out’ an ethnic group and expel them from their land? ‘Trump Calls For Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians From Gaza,’ that is your headline.”
In an article about X, Julie Roginsky, former collaborator of Fox News and CNBC, wrote: “Egypt and Jordan need to take Palestinian refugees even less than Trump to take Guatemah refugees. If Trump understood something about the story of the Egyptian Egyptian decision.
When asked about the state of the CNN union about the “cleaning” of Trump Gaza, Senator Lindsay Graham, a best friend of Trump, said: “The concept that all Palestinians will leave and spend elsewhere, I do not see that it is also practical.
The Trump administration has still responded to the statements published through Egypt and Jordan. In the midst of a high, but uninterrupted gaza fire, foreign efforts continue to deal with the serious humanitarian crisis in the region.
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