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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 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.”
Egypt is a huge country but this would come with a huge … economic cost,
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 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 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 It's a call for ethnic cleansing, for the forced displacement and expulsion of a people from their native land. It is immoral, it is illegal, and it is dangerous."
The head of the Palestinian mission to the UK, Husam Zomlot, told the BBC The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,
he told reporters at the White House on Tuesday night, alongside the visiting Israeli prime minister They must be allowed to rebuild, and we should be with them in that rebuild on the way to a two-state solution,
We will not allow the rights of our people... to be infringed on,
This is the kind of thinking that will reshape the Middle East and bring peace."
We have endured nearly a year and a half of bombings and destruction, yet we remain in Gaza,
These calls represent a serious violation of international law,
Gazans' land is Gaza and Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state,
Albares said in an interview with Spanish radio station RNE We reaffirm the necessity of achieving a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution, which will lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on the 1967 borders,
the statement from Jordan's Royal Hashemite Court said Even considering such a plan is wrong,
Fidan told the semi-official Anadolu Agency in an interview Achieving lasting and just peace is impossible without the Palestinian people obtaining their legitimate rights in accordance with international resolutions, as has been previously clarified to both the former and current U.S. administrations,
We're going to develop it, create thousands of jobs, and it'll be something the entire Middle East can be proud of,
