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2025-02-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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US officials defend Trump’s call to relocate Gazans from ‘uninhabitable plot of land’
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 [IsraelTimes] Trump thinks it’s ‘inhumane’ to force people to live there while it is being rebuilt, wants to work with partners on creative solutions, source says; Rafah resident: ‘Delusional’
US officials on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
’s suggestion that more Paleostinians in war-shattered Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
relocate to neighboring countries, insisting he was trying to look at the problem realistically and not imposing a solution.
Previewing Trump’s White House talks later on Tuesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the bigwigs sought to soften what was widely seen as Trump’s call for mass displacement of Gazooks from the enclave, which Arab states and Paleostinian leaders have vehemently rejected.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, stressed that the US wants to work with its Arab partners and Israel to come up with creative solutions to the challenge.
The suggestion that Trump made last month echoed the wishes of Israel’s far-right, and contradicted former president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
’s commitment against mass resettlement of Paleostinians.
The officials stopped short of explicitly reiterating Trump’s call for Jordan and Egypt to take in more Gazooks, but also did not retract his suggestion.
"President Trump looks at the Gaza Strip and sees it as a demolition site, sees it as impractical for it to be rebuilt within three to five years, believes it will take at least 10 to 15 and thinks it is inhumane to force people to live in an uninhabitable plot of land with unwent kaboom! ordnances and rubble," one bigwig told news hounds.
Trump "is looking for solutions to help the people of Gaza have normal lives while the Gaza Strip is being rebuilt, and he is trying to look at this in a realistic way," the official added.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi spoke with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday, stressing the need to adopt a united position that would help achieve regional peace.
According to Sissi’s office, the phone call addressed "developments in the region," including the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the need for "the rapid reconstruction" of the territory.
The two leaders "stressed the need to commit to the united Arab position calling for reaching permanent peace in the Middle East," the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.
Egypt and Jordan, both key US allies, have been under pressure to accept Trump’s proposal to "clean out" the Strip by sending Paleostinians to their territories, either temporarily or permanently.
Cairo and Amman have issued repeated strong rejections while making overtures to their Washington ally.
King Abdullah on Sunday accepted an invitation to visit the White House later this month, a day after Sissi and Trump exchanged mutual invitations for state visits.
Sissi had told Trump the world was "counting on" him for a "permanent and historic peace agreement" to end the conflict between Paleostinians and Israelis, calling him a "man of peace."
The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
have also voiced opposition to any forced displacement of Paleostinians, while stressing the need to implement a two-state solution to the protracted conflict.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has said that "any discussion of an alternate homeland... is rejected," while Cairo has repeatedly called the issue a "red line" that would threaten its national security.
Five Arab foreign ministers and a senior Paleostinian official sent a joint letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
on Monday, urging the Trump administration to back a two-state solution and rejecting suggestions that residents be resettled.
Many Paleostinians have been incensed by Trump’s remarks suggesting Gazooks should relocate.
"Trump thinks Gaza is a pile of garbage — absolutely not," Rafah resident Hatem Azzam, 34, told AFP, attacking Trump’s choice of words when he told news hounds last week of his plan to "clean out the whole thing."
Calling him "delusional," Azzam said Trump "wants to force Egypt and Jordan to take in migrants colonists, as if they were his personal farm."
"Trump and Netanyahu must understand the reality of the Paleostinian people and the people of Gaza. This is a people deeply rooted in their land — we will not leave," Azzam said.
Ihab Ahmed, another Rafah resident, claimed that Trump and Netanyahu "still don’t understand the Paleostinian people" and their attachment to the land.
"We will remain on this land no matter what. Even if we have to live in tents and on the streets, we will stay rooted in this land," the 30-year-old said.
Ahmed told AFP that Paleostinians had learned lessons from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. At the time, after rejecting the UN’s partition plan for two states, multiple Arab armies attacked the nascent Jewish state. In the ensuing war, hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians fled or were driven out of their homes and never allowed to return.
"The world must understand this message: We will not leave, as happened in 1948."
Standing near crumbling building blocks destroyed by war in the northern Gaza city of Jabalia, Raafat Kalob was concerned about the consequences that Tuesday evening’s Trump-Netanyahu meeting will have on his life.
"I expect Netanyahu’s visit to Trump to reflect his future plans to forcibly displace the Paleostinian people and redraw the Middle East," he said. "I sincerely hope this plan does not succeed."
Behind him, rows of tents provided by charity organizations lined a patch of land at the foot of concrete buildings whose facades still bear marks of war: bullet holes, blown away windows and facades stripped of their stone finishing.
The war broke out on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
-led turbans broke through the border and carried out massacres in southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 to Gaza.
In Jabalia and Gaza’s north, areas that were hit particularly hard in the war, displaced Paleostinians who returned after a ceasefire took effect on January 19 have taken residence in tents next to their destroyed homes.
Some were nevertheless optimistic, like Majid al-Zebda, a 50-year-old resident of Jabalia.
Trump "will pressure Netanyahu to end this war" permanently, he said.
The first phase of the ceasefire brought a fragile end to fighting in Gaza and started the process of a hostage and prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas, but negotiations have yet to begin for a permanent end to the war.
 Trump envoy Witkoff: ‘Preposterous’ to think Gaza reconstruction will take only 5 years
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff criticizes the ceasefire and hostage release plan put together by former US President Joe Biden, which is currently in place, taking particular issue with the proposal’s envisioning of a five-year reconstruction period for Gaza.
“Part of the problem is that it wasn’t such a wonderful agreement that was first signed. That was not dictated by the Trump administration. We had nothing to do with it. Now we’re working within that rubric, and we’re figuring things out,” Witkoff tells reporters outside the White House.
“What [I] and the national security adviser are identifying — which, by the way, President Trump identified — is that phase three, the reconstruction, is not going to go the way that the agreement talks about, which is a five-year program. It’s physically impossible. We’re trying to be transparent with these people,” he says.
“In any city in the USA, if you had damage that was 1/100th of what I saw in Gaza… nobody would be allowed to go back to their homes. That’s how dangerous it is,” Witkoff explains.
“There are 30,000 unexploded munitions; there are buildings that could tip over at any moment; there are no utilities there whatsoever; no working water, electric, gas — nothing. God knows what kind of disease might be festering there,” he continues.
“If you go to Gaza today… you see people going there, picking up a tent, and in some circumstances, turning right around again, because there is nothing left there,” Witkoff says.
“When the president talks about ‘cleaning [Gaza] out,’ he talks about making it habitable. This is a long-range plan. They dug tunnels underneath there that degraded the stone that would form foundations. We have to examine that… You do it with subterranean surveys,” Witkoff says.
“We estimate that the disposal effort alone in Gaza [will take] three to five years… before… you get a master plan done. The president is intent on getting it all done correctly. To me, it is unfair to have explained to Palestinians that they might be back in five years. That’s just preposterous,” he adds. 
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