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The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting” between Israel and Hamas
I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East.”
What President Trump announced yesterday is the offer, the willingness, of the United States to become responsible for the reconstruction of that area.”
In the interim, obviously, people are going to have to live somewhere while you’re rebuilding it. It is akin to a natural disaster. What he very generously has offered is the ability of the United States to go in and help with debris removal, help with munitions removal, help with reconstruction — the rebuilding of homes and businesses and things of this nature, so that then people can move back in.”
A plan like this needs years of preparation … It could be a security nightmare, and Jordan would be seen as betraying the Palestinian cause,
The questions of who counts as Jordanian and what it means to be Jordanian are highly combustible,
said Alia Brahimi, a regional expert at the Atlantic Council The Jordanians are very worried that what happens in Gaza [could open] the door to the annexation [by Israel] of the West Bank,
Amongst a forcibly displaced population there are always going to be militants, whether Hamas or new groups looking to stand up for a new generation of brutalised and disenfranchised Palestinians. If they were to operate from Egyptian soil this would endanger and likely upend Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel, but it would also energise and embolden local militant groups that are opposed to the Egyptian regime.”
As with King Abdullah of Jordan, there’s the potential for political calamity too, in that neither Arab leader can afford to be complicit in the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Frankly, Trump has given voice to the worst nightmares of the leaderships in Amman and Cairo.”
It would be a repeat trauma of an already traumatised people. The Nakba [the displacement of 1948] is still very fresh in the collective memory of the Arab people.”
Katrina Sammour, an independent Amman-based analyst, said Egypt is a huge country but this would come with a huge … economic cost,
They are terrified that an Israeli policy of population transfer will actually become real,
said Neil Quilliam, an associate fellow of the Middle East programme at the Chatham House thinktank in London The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too,
Trump said Tuesday in remarks that set off a media firestorm Egypt and Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates that in the end of the day are threatened by Hamas would not shed a tear to see that the United States is actually taking control over the Gaza strip, because they don't really want to do that,
Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official and Arab affairs adviser for Jerusalem, told Fox News Digital I think it's going to bring the entire region to come with their own solutions,
national security advisor Mike Waltz mused about the comments on CBS on Wednesday He's not seeing any realistic solutions on how those miles and miles and miles of debris are going to be clear, how those essentially unexploded bombs are going to be removed, how these people are physically going to live there for at least a decade, if not longer, it's going to take to do this."
I would reject the premise of your question that this forces the United States to be entangled in conflicts abroad,
she told a reporter on Wednesday Trump is being presented right now a construct of a ceasefire deal that is headed for a train wreck,
said Rich Goldberg, president of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Even if Trump disregards international law, it’s crucial to remind Israelis that the forced expulsion or transfer of civilians violates international humanitarian law, constitutes a war crime and amounts to a crime against humanity,
The fact that it has been laid on the table, ... opens the door for such a clear crime to become legitimate.”
said Israeli historian Tom Segev,
