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2025-03-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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US, Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians uprooted from Gaza
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[GEO.TV] The United States and Israel have reached out and talked with three East African governments about the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to Sudan, Somalia and its breakaway region of Somaliland, according to Al Jazeera.
Officials from Sudan rejected overtures from the US while officials from Somalia and Somaliland told The Associated Press that they do not know about any contacts.
Officials say approaches also made to breakaway region of Somaliland; Sudanese, Somali and Somaliland officials says proposal rejected.
The US and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Paleostinians uprooted from the 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 ...
Strip under US President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials said.
The contacts with Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
, Somalia and the breakaway Somali region known as Somaliland
...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
reflect the determination by the US and Israel to press ahead with a plan that has been widely condemned but has also jolted new energy into planning for Gaza’s future.
Officials from Sudan and Somalia said they had rejected overtures from the US, while officials Somaliland told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that they were not aware of any contacts.
Somalia rejects any proposal that would undermine the Paleostinian people’s right to live peacefully on their ancestral land, its foreign minister said on Friday.
Ahmed Moalim Fiqi told Rooters that Somalia also rejected any plan that would involve the use of its territory for the resettlement of other populations.
Abdirahman Dahir Adan, Somaliland’s foreign minister, told Rooters that "there are no talks with anyone regarding Paleostinians."
Because all three places are poor, and in some cases wracked by violence, the proposal also casts doubt on Trump’s stated goal of resettling Gaza’s Paleostinians in a "beautiful area" where they would enjoy a higher standard of living than in the Strip.
Trump proposed the plan after a US, Egyptian 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...
i-mediated ceasefire halted 15 months of war in the Gaza Strip that began on October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
led 5,000 attackers to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting hundreds, mostly civilians.
The war caused widespread devastation to Gaza, raising the need for a comprehensive rehabilitation plan that Israel has demanded include a new administration to replace Hamas’s rule. In the meantime, the complex three-phase ceasefire, which included the release of hostages, has stalled after its first stage amid mutual accusations of violations by Israel and Hamas, though so far fighting has not resumed.
Under Trump’s plan, Gaza’s more than 2 million people would be permanently sent elsewhere. He has proposed that the US would take ownership of the territory, oversee a lengthy cleanup process and develop it as a real estate project.
The idea of a mass transfer of Paleostinians was once considered a fantasy of Israel’s ultranationalist fringe. But since Trump presented the idea at a White House meeting last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed it as a "bold vision." His allies, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, have touted the formation of a government-backed body to encourage and facilitate voluntary migration out of the Strip.
Paleostinians in Gaza have rejected Trump’s proposal and dismissed Israeli claims that the departures would be voluntary. Arab nations have expressed vehement opposition and offered an alternative reconstruction plan that would leave the Paleostinians in place.
Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a secret diplomatic initiative, US and Israeli officials confirmed the contacts with Somalia and Somaliland, while the Americans confirmed Sudan as well. They said it was unclear how much progress the efforts made or at what level the discussions took place.
Separate outreach from the US and Israel to the three potential destinations began last month, days after Trump floated the Gaza plan alongside Netanyahu, according to the US officials, who said that Israel was taking the lead in the discussions.
Israel and the US have a variety of incentives — financial, diplomatic and security — to offer these potential partners. It is a formula that Trump used five years ago when he brokered the Abraham Accords, a series of mutually beneficial diplomatic accords between Israel and four Arab countries.
The White House declined to comment on the outreach efforts. The offices of Netanyahu and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a Netanyahu confidant who has been leading Israel’s postwar planning, also had no comment.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a longtime advocate of what he calls "voluntary" emigration of Paleostinians, said this week that Israel is working to identify countries to take in Paleostinians.
He also said Israel is preparing a "very large emigration department" within its Defense Ministry.
Here is a closer look at the places the officials say have been approached.
SUDAN
The North African country was among the four Abraham Accord nations that agreed to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020.
As part of the deal, the US removed Sudan from its list of state supporters of terrorism, a move that gave the country access to international loans and global legitimacy. But relations with Israel never took off as Sudan plunged into civil war between government forces and the RSF paramilitary group.
The conflict has been marked by atrocities, including ethnically motivated killing and rape, according to the UN and rights groups. The International Criminal Court is investigating alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, and then-US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
’s administration in January said the RSF and its proxies were committing genocide.
The US and Israel would be hard-pressed to persuade Paleostinians to leave Gaza, particularly to such a troubled country. But they could offer incentives to the Khartoum government, including debt relief, weapons, technology and diplomatic support.
Two Sudanese officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
to discuss a sensitive diplomatic matter, confirmed that the Trump administration has approached the military-led government about accepting Paleostinians. One of them said the contacts began even before Trump’s inauguration with offers of military assistance against the RSF, assistance with postwar reconstruction and other incentives. Both officials said the Sudanese government rejected the idea.
"This suggestion was immediately rebuffed," said one official. "No one opened this matter again."
Military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan told an Arab leaders’ summit last week in Cairo that his country "categorically rejects" any plan that aims to transfer "the brotherly Paleostinians from their land under whatever justification or name."
SOMALILAND
Somaliland, a territory of over 3 million people in the Horn of Africa, seceded from Somalia over 30 years ago, but it is not internationally recognized as an independent state. Somalia considers Somaliland part of its territory.
Somaliland’s new president, Abdirahman Mohammed Abdullahi, has made international recognition a priority.
An American official involved in the efforts confirmed that the US was "having a quiet conversation with Somaliland about a range of areas where they can be helpful to the US in exchange for recognition."
The possibility of US recognition could provide an incentive for Abdullahi to back away from the territory’s solidarity with the Paleostinians.
The United Arab Emirates, another Abraham Accord country that has developed strong ties with Israel, once had a military base in Somaliland and maintains commercial interests there, including a port. The territory’s strategic location, in the Gulf of Aden waterway near Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, home to the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebel group, could also make it a valuable ally.
Over the years, Somaliland has been lauded for its relatively stable political environment, contrasting sharply with Somalia’s ongoing struggles amid deadly attacks by al-Qaeda-linked hard boy group al-Shabaab
... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
. Since 1991, Somaliland has maintained its own government, currency and security structures. Still, it has one of the lowest income levels in the world.
Somaliland’s Foreign Minister Abdirahman Dahir Adan told Rooters it was not participating in any talks with anyone about the resettlement of Paleostinians.
"I haven’t received such a proposal, and there are no talks with anyone regarding Paleostinians," he said.
SOMALIA
Somalia has been a vocal supporter of the Paleostinians, often hosting peaceful protests on its streets in support of them. The country joined the recent Arab summit that rejected Trump’s plan and seems like an unlikely destination for Paleostinians, even if they did agree to move.
Sambu Chepkorir, a lawyer and conflict researcher in Nairobi, Kenya, said it is difficult to understand why Somalia would want to host Paleostinians given the country’s strong support for Paleostinian self-rule.
"The realignments keep changing, and so maybe there is a hidden agenda in why Somalia," Chepkorir said.
A Somali official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said the country had not been approached about taking in Paleostinians from Gaza and there had been no discussions about it.
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