US President Donald Trump believes that this would be a good idea if Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries took a large number of Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip.
Trump said earlier this week, “I am taking people like Egypt, and I want to take Jordan to people.” “You are probably talking about a million and a help, we just clear the whole thing,” hey said.
In his view, transfer “temporary or long -term but something should be.”
“This is literally a demolition site. Almost everything has collapsed, and people are dying there,” Hey said, “I will connect with some Arab nations, and can build a different place in a different place. I am, where they can probably live peacefully for a change.
For news agency AP, Trump relate reporters what he told King Abdullah of Jordan during a phone call. “I told him,” I would like to take you more because I am looking at the entire Gaza Patti, and it’s a mess. “
Firm rejection
However, Trump’s idea was fulfilled with immediate criticism to transfer Palestinians from Gaza Strip to neighboring states.
In addition to the European Union, Egypt and Jordan have specifically rejected the idea.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the Palestinians’ temples or long -term transfer “Risks expanding conflict in the region.” Egypt has “supported the insistence of urbanism on their land of Palestinian people,” said Cairo, Egypt, “the thesis dismissed any intervention in the ineligible rights, it is in the form of colonies of the land or as expulsion or Be it through it. “
Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Ayman Safdi reacted a similar way. He told reporters that his country’s rejection for the proposed transfer of Palestinians was “firm and unknown.”
According to Jordan newspaper Jordan TimesThe situation of Amman is clear, which is close to the government. “Jordan will not have an alternative homeland for Palestinians, and will never. Palestinians can not leave their motherland, whether they are pressure or danger. For Palestinians, for Palestinians, their land is not just a area, but identity, history And shared destiny and shared destiny. The new paper wrote.
Solidarity for Palestine
“Egypt’s rejection is larger due to solidarity and support for Palestinian discovery,” said Stephen Roll from Berlin -based German Institute for International and Security Affairs, or SWP said.
“This is a major domestic political issue (…) Leaving the Egyptian land, considered to be uniquely taboo due to the rehabilitation project, which many Egyptians consider anti -Palestinian,” Hair said. “The government will have to believe with great opposition to the population.”
According to Edmund Ratka, head of the Office of the Conrad Adenora Foundation in Amman, the situation in Jordan is the same.
“Most Jordanis are strictly opposed to a project, which is seen by lowering the ‘Palestinian cause’,” he told DW. “No one in the country, including the king, wants to suspect to play with this prescribed policy.”
Another reason is that the discovery one plan will promote extremist groups within Jordan.
Ratka said, “It can strengthen the argument of right -wing forces in Israel, which already see today’s Jordan as a state for Palestinians.” In his view, the non-Filistini parts of the population of Jordan, which form the backbone of the state, are so concerned that the demographic and power-political balance in the state may complain of their loss.
According to various estimates, about half of Jordan’s population is of Palestinian origin. “This is another reason that the traditional tribal communities of Jordan are against the influx of more Palestinians,” Ratka told DW.
Egyptian-Israel was a nightmare landscape
In addition to its solidarity with Palestinians, Egypt has considerable security concerns about Trump’s proposal.
SWP’s Stephen Roll told DW, “The Sinai border area has been very unstable in the last decades.”
While the area has been stabilized to some extent through large -scale military operations, large refugee camps in Sinai can risk fresh disturbance, which can spread to the rest of the country, they said. “At the same time, of course, it is a matter of concern that the attacks on Israel can occur from refugee camps or Palestinian settlements. Israel will probably react and Egypt must be in Israel in the war,” the roll warned.
Jordan, on the contrary, there are some different concerns, Ratka said. During the last 15 months of the war in Gaza, which began with a Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the king and the government have found that it is difficult to convince the population that their consent and peace with Israel Course fruit.
“Finally, the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty of 1994 concluded with the hope that the Palestinians would have their own kingdom,” Ratka said.
Ratka said, “If the Palestinian StageWhood project is dead, the relationship with Israel Wood needs to be fundamentally defined in the eyes of Man Jordanis,” Ratka said, Trump’s latest proposal should be surrounded in this vein. Can
“No one in Jordan assumes that the Palestinians rehabilitation for Palestine countries would only be temporary, given the historical experiences with the previous waves of Palestinian refugees,” Ratka said. “For Amman, the expulsion of Palestinians from Palestinian regions has always been a red line.”
According to SWP’s role, the same thing applies to Egypt. “Cairo wants to play a role in Gaza regarding reconstruction and its economic importance,” he said.
There is only one aspect in which the roll agrees with Trump. “The Gaza strip is completely destroyed and perhaps it will probably take years to rebuild. Where is the Palestinians considered to live until then?” He asked.
This article was the original published in German.
