Correspondent in the Middle East
BBCDonald Trump is expected to face severe resistance from King Jordan Abdullah at the White House today, at his first meeting after the US president proposed to move to Jordan’s Gaza.
Jordan, a key ally that is traced in the channel between its military and diplomatic ties, and the popular support of the Palestinians at home.
The malfunction lines that have already experienced the gas war are pushing for Trump’s plans for peace.
He expanded his demand for the gasmen to be transferred to Jordan and Egypt, saying an anchor of Fox News that they would not have the right to return home – a vision that, if forced, contradicts international law.
On Monday, he said he could refuse the help of Jordan and Egypt if they did not take Palestinian refugees.
Some of the most violent opponents of the gas transfer to Jordan are the gaskets who have moved here before.
About 45,000 people live in Gazae, near the Northern city of Jordan, one of several Palestinian refugee camps.
The leaves of the corrugated iron hang over the narrow doors, and the children knock on the donkeys between the market stalls.
All families here trace their roots back into the gas: to Jabalia, Rafa, Bate Hanun. Most remained after the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, seeking a temporary shelter. Later the generations are still here.
“Donald Trump-Narcissist,” the 60-year-old Azazi tells me. “He has a mentality from the Middle Ages, a mentality of trade.”
Maher left Jabalia as a kid. Some of his families still have, and now they choose rubble at home for the bodies of 18 missing relatives.
Despite the destruction there, Mr. Azazi says the gazanse has learned the lessons of previous generations today, and most “faster jumping to the sea than to leave”.
Those who once saw how to leave as a temporary application for asylum now see it as help from the extreme right -wing nationalists of Israel to accept the Palestinian land.
“We, the gas, were experiencing it before,” says Yusef, who was born in the camp. “Then they told us it would be temporarily and we will return to our house. The right to return is a red line.”
“When our ancestors left, they had no weapons to fight, as it is now in Hamas,” another man tells me. “Now the younger generation is fully aware of what happened to our ancestors, and it will never happen again. Now there is resistance.”
The Palestinians are not the only asylum in Jordan – a tiny superpower stability surrounded by numerous conflicts of the Middle East.
The Iraqis arrived here, fleeing the war in the early 2000s. A decade later, the Syrians also came, which forced King Jordan to warn that his country was in boiling.
Many Jordan relatives blame the waves of refugees at high unemployment and poverty at home. The Mosque Power Bank in Central Oman told us that it distributes 1000 meals a day.
Waiting for work outside the mosque, we got acquainted with Imad Abdal and his friends Hassan – both workers who have not worked for months.
“The situation in Jordan was big, but when Iraq had a war, everything worsened when there was a war in Syria, it has deteriorated, now there is a war, it has become much worse,” Hasson Hassan said. “Any war that is going on next to us, we become worse because we are a country that helps and accepts people.”
Imada was a bloter, experiencing feeding four children.
“Foreigners come and take our work,” he told me. “Now I have four months out of work. I have no money or food. If the gasmen will come, we will die.”
But Jordan is also under pressure from his key military ally. Trump has already rejected her help in the US worth more than $ 1.5 billion a year. And many here are exposed to the confrontation between the new US president and their own political leaders who are pushing back.
Javad Ananani, a former deputy prime minister, near the Government of Jordan, says King Abdullah Donald Trump’s message in the White House on Tuesday will be understood: Western shore as a crime.
Even if the gasan wanted to move voluntarily, on a temporary basis, as part of a broader plan in the Middle East, he said that confidence simply wasn’t.
“There is no confidence,” he said. “As long as Netanyahu is involved, he and his government are not confident in any promises who give.”
Trump’s determination to push his vision of Gaza may eventually push the key ally into a critical choice.
Last Friday, thousands protested here against Trump’s proposal.
Jordan is home to US military bases, and millions of refugees, and its security cooperation is crucial for Israel, concerned about the smuggling routes on the occupied West Bank.
Any risks for Jordan’s stability also mean the risk to its allies. If stability is a superpower Jordan, the threat of excitement is the biggest weapon and better defense.
Additional Reporting: Mohammed Madi, BBC NEWS
