At the weekend, US President Donald Trump spoke to journalists traveling on board “Air Force One” in favor of clearing the destroyed Gaza Strip and accommodating the Palestinians living there in Arab countries.
Trump said he wanted Egypt and Jordan to take in people. We’re talking about a million and a half people, “and we’re just cleaning the area thoroughly,” said Trump.
Trump claims to have already spoken to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about accepting Palestinians. “The chaos in the demolition wasteland” (Gaza) could then be ended, said Trump. The action could be “temporary or long-term”.
At the weekend, Trump also released the delivery of heavy bombs to Israel that had been withheld by his predecessor Joe Biden.
Trump’s relocation proposal sparked horror in the Arab world, but enthusiasm among Israel’s right-wing extremists. “The idea of finding other places for them to start a better life is great,” said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, head of the National Religious Party.
The 2.4 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are mostly Palestinian refugees or their descendants. Their removal from Gaza would bring back memories for Palestinians of an event known in the Arab world as the “Naqba” (“catastrophe”): the mass expulsion of Palestinians following Israel’s founding of the state in 1948.
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Image: OMAR AL-QATTAA (AFP)
Source: Nachrichten
