Everyone is all excited about a statement USA President Trump made yesterday about Gaza.
Trump spoke out about Gaza being a demolition site and he was talking about the potential rebuilding of Gaza. Trump said that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Gazan refugees so we can clear them out and rebuild.
As you can surely understand without me pointing it out, lots of people are excited about this. Smotritch and Ben Gvir have both commented about this and how it fits their plan of encouraging emigration out of Gaza, along with others. PM Netanyahu has not, as far as I know, said anything about this yet, but he has thanked Trump for sending the shipments of weapons that had been held up.
(to note, both Egypt and Jordan have refused in the past to take in Gazan refugees. Egypt now has said explicitly they will not agree to this. I dont know if Jordan has said anything about it but they have refused the suggestion in the past. I would expect them to refuse it again, unless they cant refuse Trump,. or maybe this is only their opening offer)
To me it seems obvious that Trump is referring to Egypt and Jordan taking in refugees from Gaza temporarily until Gaza can be rebuilt but he did not say explicitly that it would be temporary and he did muse that maybe it should be rebuilt differently or somewhere else where they can live in peace, so nobody really know what his plan is at this point.
Even if Trump does only mean for other countries to take them in as a temporary solution while Gaza is rebuilt, once they are gone perhaps Israel can find ways to thwart and delay their return, leaving them in limbo in Egypt and Jordan or elsewhere. Or maybe once they are gone Trump can be persuaded to make it more than temporary. I am not sure it is something to get overly excited about at this point but maybe it will become that.
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