Abdullah Al-Arian, a Center East specialist at Georgetown College in Qatar, says President Trump’s feedback asking Egypt and Jordan to simply accept 1.5 million war-displaced Palestinians from Gaza is a reputable risk and never simply a casual comment.
“There’s purpose to take it severely partly as a result of we’ve seen this particular demand being made during the last yr. That is one thing many Israeli officers indicated very early on in the middle of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza is that they sought to ethnically cleanse as a lot of that territory as attainable,” al-Arian instructed Al Jazeera.
“That plan has failed for a number of causes with Arab leaders who had been approached at the moment merely declining to tackle extra Palestinian refugee populations.”
The Palestinians themselves had been additionally not excited about one other “mass ethnic cleaning”, he added.
“They know all too nicely what it means to depart their house and what the standing of Palestinian refugees has regarded like for the previous 70 years.”
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