Jordan Agrees To Accept 2,000 Gazans
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President Trump’s plan to evacuate the residents of Gaza to Egypt, Jordan, and other countries got a modest boost today when the king of Jordan, Abdullah II, agreed to accept 2,000 children from Gaza.
“Fantastic, so beautiful, music to my ears,” Trump kvelled in a White House meeting with the king. “That’s really a beautiful gesture, and we’ll be working on the rest.” When Trump first announced the plan with Prime Minister Netanyahu a week ago he said there were 1.7 million or 1.8 million people in Gaza.
The mainstream press and its “experts” had initially described Trump’s plan for Gaza as a dead-on-arrival fantasy or as a mere negotiating ploy aimed at eliciting other offers. But the two-part plan—which involves the Gazan population leaving and being relocated elsewhere, and then having the U.S. taking over and turning the coastal strip between Israel and Egypt into a “Riviera”—appears to be moving forward, albeit, at least initially, on a smaller scale than Trump envisioned.
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