Is US President Donald Trump’s proposal really serious? “Almost everything has been destroyed and people are dying there. I would like Egypt or Jordan to take them in,” he said, adding that he had spoken to the Jordanian king about it and intends to talk to the Egyptian president about this step, which could be temporary or long-term. “I want Egypt to take in 1.5 million people. Jordan is already successfully hosting Palestinians and I want them to take in even more,” Trump said, dropping his idea like a “bombshell” in an interview with journalists aboard Air Force One. Could it be that Trump is turning a messianic dream – to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip – into a politically reality?
For many in Israel, Trump’s proposal is great – a dream that can finally come true. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich thanked the American leader for his “out-of-the-box thinking” in proposing to relocate large parts of the Gaza Strip’s population to neighboring Arab states. “After 76 years of holding most of Gaza’s population captive in harsh...
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I think it’s not so brilliant. Relocating would be a good thing, but not on Israels borders (and not outside the Arab world). Unfortunately, there is no place where the Pals will not do much harm, but probably Yemen would be a good place. They have a lot of friends there with the same medieval mentality and manners.