President Donald Trump once again insisted that the US would take control of the gas lane when he met with King Jordan on Tuesday at the White House.
It was their first meeting because Trump announced his proposal to take on the enclave and transfer the population from two million Palestinians to other countries in the region, including Jordan.
Earlier this week, Trump suggested that he could refuse the help of Jordan and Egypt if they did not agree to take these gases.
Jordan, a key ally in the Middle East, has already lived millions of Palestinians and rejected the proposal. After the meeting, King Abdullah stated that “Jordan’s unwavering position against the movement of the Palestinians.”
But, speaking to journalists in the Oval Office, when King Abdullah was sitting to the right, Trump said he would not go to his idea that caused a global condemnation when he submitted it last week.
“We’re going to accept it. We will hold it. We’ll protect it,” he said of the gas.
Trump claimed that “a lot of jobs” will be created throughout the region when the US -destroyed territory is absorbed.
“I think it may be a diamond,” he said, adding that now he believes that the US is “above”, which should threaten to participate in other countries.
King Abdullah sat quietly next to Trump when the president repeated the proposal that would stop the decades of the established policy in the US and could violate international law prohibiting the violent transfer of the population.
Until now, Jordan has rejected the idea as a major violation of international law, but calmly expressed concern about the ability of the kingdom to absorb a large number of Palestinians.
King Abdullah said about the opportunity to accept additional Palestinians that the decision that is “better for everyone” was needed. He said Jordan would take 2000 unbearable Palestinian children.
Trump, however, appeared unwavering and repeated his position, which expects Jordan and Egypt to play a role in housing, migrated Palestinians.
“I believe that we will have a land in Jordan. I believe that we will have a land in Egypt,” Trump said. “We may have anywhere else, but I think that when we finish our negotiations, we will have a place where they will live very happily and very safely.”
After the meeting, King Abdullah wrote on x that the meeting was “constructive” and that his “main obligation-Jordan, to his stability and well-being of Jordan.”
But he gave his country’s concern with Trump’s proposal.
“I once again confirmed Jordan’s unwavering position against the displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank,” he said. “This is the only Arab position.”
“The restoration of the gas, without displacing the Palestinians and resorting to the terrible humanitarian situation, should become a priority for everyone,” he added.
Millions of people who came from Palestinian refugees who were forced from the land that became Israel in 1948, as well as those whose roots firmly east of the Jordan River are already living in Jordan.
The country also absorbed the waves of refugees from Syria and largely depends on the US economic and military assistance.
The UN warns that any forced relocation of civilians from the occupied territory is strictly prohibited in accordance with international law and “tantamount to ethnic purification”.
Trump on Tuesday seemed to evade the question of the UN warning.
“We move them to a great place where they can have new homes where they can live safely, where they can have doctors and medical and all these things,” he said.
King Abdullah said during the meeting that the issue would be discussed, and both parties should “wait for the Egyptians” to submit ideas.
It is assumed that the transaction with Egypt is a proposal for future gas management, backed by other Arab states as a way to withstand Trump’s plan.
It is still formulated, it is believed that the proposal may provide for the local administration of the technocrats received from the Palestinians in Gaza, without resorting to factions, including Hamas.
From the first disclosure of the US proposal during a press conference, last week, together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump has repeatedly doubled his gas plan, saying that he was “seeking to buy and own.”
In an interview with the Fox News broadcast this week, Trump said two million Gaza residents would be relocated and are not allowed to return.
“They will not be, because they have much better housing,” he said. “I’m talking about creating a permanent place for them.”
