Al Akhbar: Trump Wants Jordan to Take In 1 Million ‘Palestinians’
Al Akhbar: Trump Wants Jordan to Take In 1 Million ‘Palestinians’
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II review an honor guard in Ramallah, August 7, 2017.Photo Credit: Flash90
The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar on Friday reported new details about President Donald Trump’s promised “deal of the century.”
According to the newspaper, $45 billion will be invested in projects in the Kingdom of Jordan in return for its agreement to accept a million “Palestinians.” But King Abdullah has made it clear that he thought the plan was dangerous.
According to the report, Egyptian President Abd al-Fatah al-Sisi is expected to be updated on the final details of the plan during his visit to Washington next week. This would be before the official announcement and its implementation, which are planned for after Tuesday’s elections in Israel.
Al-Akhbar also reported that Egypt and Jordan lowered their opposition to the deal, about which King Abdullah had already been briefed in his recent visit to Washington.
The king said that the plan was dangerous and not simple to implement, in particular the part relating to the land swaps in Tzofar, a moshav in the Arava desert, and Naharayim, where Jordan conquered in 1948 the Island of Peace and a hydroelectric power-plant that belonged to Israel. According to the Trump proposal, Jordan would receive from Saudi Arabia an area equal in size to these territories which Israel would reacquire.
In addition, Jordan has been asked to take in a million “Palestinian” refugees in several stages, in return for $45 billion in investments. Jordan’s entire GDP is only $40 billion. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states will finance these investments.
According to Al-Akhbar, King Abdullah has told Egyptian officials based on the maps he had seen in Washington, that the American plan envisions a confederation of the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and the Israeli Civil Administration in the liberated territories.
The plan also expects Egypt to permit “Palestinians” to move freely through the Rafah crossing, to work legally in industrial zones in Egypt, and to pursue a track to Egyptian citizenship. Egypt would be compensated with projects in the northern Sinai to the tune of $65 billion.
Lebanon will also be included in the new deal, by awarding Lebanese citizenship to the “Palestinian” refugees on its soil, and not seek their return to Israel.
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WarSclerotic 
April 5, 2019 at 3:23 PM
IT can be true, and it can be the reason why BiBi is so careful not to frustrate the Arabic world to much with actions against gaza..
I mentioned something like this in a earlier comment .
April 6, 2019 at 12:18 AM
Sounds good to me, but only if you can get them to take AOC and Ilhan Omar, and UNESCO. Has anyone asked the PLO, Hamas, Iran, etc….They all tend to disagree…on about everything. I hate to say this, but it sort of sounds like it came from someone who’s playing too many Beatles records backwards.
April 6, 2019 at 7:47 AM
But what could happen if they refuse ?
A by the USA approved annexation of Judea and Samaria ?
Taking all the fractions out in gaza , fully supported by the USA ?
April 6, 2019 at 4:40 PM
You can’t take all the factions out of Gaza. Think of them like a flu virus, they would simply mutate and reproduce. The real problem is that the majority of Palestinians believe that at some point in the future Israel will be replaced by an a Palestinian State, and furthermore this fantasy is currently fostered by the growing antisemitism in Europe.
They are too stupid too realize that this has never been and never will be their destiny. Even if the Levant was to be conquered by in the distant future by an Iranian, Russian, Turkish, Egyptian, Chinese or other superpower, no one is giving them a Country. They would just live under a new and more severe heel.
April 6, 2019 at 5:34 PM
Yep you can if there is a will, keep hunting them down , so they have no time to control the other people in gaza.
Make their life impossible let them keep running.
In the same time there will be a window for people who will govern gaza in a better way and who are willing to work together with Israel for a more peacefully solution , that will not happens overnight .
But this need support from different sides , perhaps a refusal for a peace treaty will open some doors .
April 6, 2019 at 11:43 AM
Off topic, but utterly important:
Reuters report that the US is expected to designate IRGC as terrorist organization, perhaps as early as on Monday. I think it will be a turning point, as this military will be subject to the paradigm of War on Terror.
April 6, 2019 at 3:15 PM
Not off topic at all. it are the little bits of info we get and were we make temporal conclusions with .