Peloni: In making this statement, Trump has made both a seismic shift in policy as well as the greatest single move ever towards achieving actual peace in the region. The Pals have been specifically and purposefully weaponized toward the rape, murder and pillaging of their Jewish neighbors, and the eradication of any remnant of the Jewish entity in the region. Furthermore, they have been programmed, at the expense of Western funding, towards the butchery of Jews in general, making their emigration to any nation with even a small community of Jews into a act of supporting savagery…which makes Jordan and Egypt ideal localities to which the Pals might be contained, either short term or (hopefully) long term, as expressed by Trump in his statements. Additionally, in moving to Jordan or Egypt, the Pals would find a like a minded population in these Israeli “peace” partner nations, which have seen fit to weaponize their own population with a similar programming of Jew Hatred, so the arriving Pals would represent little more than a similar sauce for the gander, so to speak. Hence, Gaza should be emptied of its so called ‘innocent’ population, who are routinely employed as both human shields as well as new recruits for the Hamas ranks. The forced containment of the population has been both an aberration of routine practices during war as well as a means by which Israel is routinely criticized for having to deal with the reality which has been leveraged against its defensive war with Hamas. The problem lies in the fact that Abdullah fears the Pals who he keeps in a constant state of subjugation and squalor. Additionally, the radicalized Pals living in Jordan and those coming from Gaza will need to be deradicalized, and Abdullah’s entire regime is tied to the radicalization of the Pals. What Trump needs is the Jordan Option.
VOA | Jan 25, 2025
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE —
President Donald Trump said Saturday he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.
During a 20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump also said he’s ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 907-kilogram bombs to Israel. That lifts a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civilian casualties during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza that is now halted by a tenuous ceasefire.
“We released them today,” Trump said of the bombs. “They’ve been waiting for them for a long time.” Asked why he lifted the ban on those bombs, Trump responded, “Because they bought them.”
Trump has built his political career around being unapologetically pro-Israel. On his larger vision for Gaza, Trump said he had call earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.
“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.'”
Trump said he complimented Jordan for having successfully accepted Palestinian refugees and that he told the king, “I’d love for you to take on more, ‘cause I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”
He said of such a mass movement of Palestinians, “it could be temporary or long term,” adding that the area of the world that encompasses Gaza, has “had many, many conflicts” over centuries.
“Something has to happen,” Trump said. “But it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there.” He added: “So, I’d 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.”
There was no immediate comment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
Trump has offered nontraditional views on the future of Gaza in the past. He suggested after he was inaugurated on Monday that Gaza has “really got to be rebuilt in a different way.”
The new president added then, “Gaza is interesting. It’s a phenomenal location, on the sea. The best weather, you know, everything is good. It’s like, some beautiful things could be done with it, but it’s very interesting.”
His resuming delivery of large bombs, meanwhile, is a break with then-President Joe Biden, who halted their delivery in May as part of an effort to keep Israel from launching an all-out assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. A month later, Israel did take control of the city, but after the vast majority of the 1 million civilians that had been living or sheltering in Rafah had fled.
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN in May when he held up the weapons. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah … I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem.”
The Biden pause had also held up 1,700 227-kilogram bombs that had been packaged in the same shipment to Israel, but weeks later those bombs were delivered.
Trump’s action comes as he has celebrated the first phase of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that has paused the fighting and seen the release of some hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Negotiations have yet to begin in earnest on the more difficult second phase of the deal that would eventually see the release of all hostages held by Hamas and an enduring halt to the fighting.
The Israeli government has threatened to resume its war against Hamas — which launched a massive assault against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 — if the remaining hostages are not released.
Trump knows that all these countries will refuse to take the refugees. and then the “ONLY road to peace” will be the TSFS which has been the main goal of American ME policy for decades.
Then, if Israel refuses the TSFS, the continuation of the ME conflict will be blamed solely on Israel, as usual.
The only reason these people are called “Palestinian refugees” is because they are being used as a battering ram against the Jewish State.
I agree with Peloni. What is needed is the King’s abdication, the sooner the better. Mudar Zahran is ready to create a Jordanian Republic and welcome ALL PALESTINIANS, all of whom will have citizenship.
He has the ideas about how to create a state that will give Palestinians a chance to have outstanding leadership instead of leaders who live in luxury off of them, and encourage them to kill and become martyrs. He knows what it will take for the Republic of Jordan to be a Palestinian state that will bring Palestinians a country of their own, one free of terrorism.
Very funny if you know the history as the US could have usefully twisted Egypt’s arm a long time ago had it preferred to be practical instead of sanctimonious.
Under the Mandate if not before a lot of Egyptians immigrated for the jobs there and then sent for their fiancées from Egypt or took a local wife. Come the 1948 war many of these people wished to return to their families in Egypt – at least till the hostilities were over. However the Egyptian government of the time simply closed the frontier thus denying his own people their “right of return” and their right haven/ refuge. They were indulging a sulk to dump any of the problems they had created by invading Palestine against international law.
Given the cynical lack of care and charity Arabs have for their own as just demonstrated in Gaza this origin of Gaza’s problems should not surprise anybody. The proof is in the fact that of the 200 000 refugees who swamped the 100 000 permanent residents of Gaza in 1948, half ie. a third of the current population wear surnames Misri / Masri and variants meaning they came from Egypt – inclusive Mohammed Deif which is an alias. The others also have indicative numbers of economic migrant toponym surnames: eg Yamani, Hijazi, Mughrebi / Maghrabi.
All that needs doing now – or no “foreign aid” – is to round up all the Misri / Masri families in the Gaza Strip and “West Bank” and park them in El Arish under UNHCR to be dispersed further to their ancestors’ villages.
Trump idea is solid, but both Jordan and Egypt will resist this plan.
Indonesia had turned down Trump earlier in moving some Gazans there.
Need to find someone who for money will take them. I suggest Libya or Algeria. Two Arab Muslim countries with lots of land.
Egypt and Jordan would probably simply enlarge the existing “refugee camps” and exacerbate the problem even more.