Correspondent
Donald Trump is expected to face the fierce resistance of Jordan’s King Abdullah in the White House today, at their first meeting since the US president suggested that the population of the Gazan movement to be in Jordan.
Jordan, a key American ally, walked the wire between his military and diplomatic ties and the popular support of Palestinians at home.
These errors lines already tested by the war in Gaza are pushed at the turning point Trump’s plans for the peace of gauze.
He expanded at his request to move Gazani to Jordan and Egypt, saying the anchor Fox News that he would not have the right to return home – a vision that would, if implemented, opposed international law.
On Monday, he said he could refuse to help Jordan and Egypt if they had not taken over Palestinian refugees.
Some of the fiercest opponents of the movement of Gazanians to Jordan are Gazani who have moved here before.
About 45,000 people live in the Gaza Camp, near Jordan’s northern city of Jerash, one of several Palestinian refugee campsites here.
The leaves of the corrugated iron are hanging over the narrow door of the store, and the children are rattled on the donkeys between the markets.
All families here follow their roots back to Gaza: to Jabalia, Rafah, Beit Hanoun. Most left after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, seeking a temporary shelter. Generations later, they are still here.
“Donald Trump is an arrogant narcissus,” 60-year-old Maher Azazi tells me. “He has a mentality from the Middle Ages, a dealer’s mentality.”
Maher left Jabalia as a child. Some of his families are still there, who now break through the ruins of their home for the bodies of 18 missing relatives.
Despite this devastation, Mr. Azazi says that Gazani has learned the lessons of previous generations today and most would “rather jump into the sea than leave.”
Those who once saw them leave as a temporary offer for refuge, now they see it as helping the extreme right -wing nationalists of Israeli arisen to Palestinian land.
“We have already passed him,” says Yousef, who was born at the camp. “Then they told us it would be temporary, and we’ll get home. The right to return is a red line.”
“When our ancestors left, they did not have a weapon to fight, as is Hamas now,” another man tells me. “Now the younger generation are fully aware of what happened to our ancestors, and that will never happen again. There is now resistance.”
The Palestinians are not the only ones who sought refuge in Jordan – a small superpowder surrounded by many conflicts in the Middle East.
The Iraqis arrived here, fleeing the war in the early 2000s. A decade later, the Syrians came, forcing Jordan’s king to warn that his country was in a “key place”.
Many natives Jordanci blame the waves of refugees for high unemployment and poverty at home. The food bank in the mosque in Central Amman told us to teach 1,000 meals daily.
Waiting for work outside the mosque, we met the imad of Abdallah and his friend Hassan – both days of workers who had not worked for months.
“The situation in Jordan was once great, but when there was a war in Iraq, things worsened, when there was a war in Syria, it’s worse, now there’s a war, it’s a lot worse,” Hassan said. “Every war that happens near us becomes worse, because we are a country that helps and takes people inside.”
It was a blunt, worried about feeding four children.
“Foreigners come and take over our jobs,” he told me. “I have four months out of work now. I have no money, no food. If Gazani come, we will die.”
But Jordan is also under the pressure of his key military ally. Trump has already suspended US help worth more than $ 1.5 billion a year. And many are prepared here for a growing conflict between the new US president and their own political leaders, which are pushing back.
Jawad Anani, a former deputy prime minister of a close to Jordan government, says that King Abdullah’s message to Donald Trump will be clear in the White House on Tuesday: “Let’s consider every attempt of Israel or others to pull people out of their houses in Gaza and the West Coast as a criminal act.
Even if Gazani wanted to voluntarily move, temporarily, as part of the wider plan of the Middle East, he said, there was simply no confidence.
“No confidence,” he said. “As long as Netanyahu is included, he and his government have no confidence in any promise that anyone gives. Period.”
Trump’s determination to encourage his vision of Gaza could eventually push a key American ally to a critical choice.
Last Friday, thousands were protesting here against Trump’s proposal.
Jordan is the home of American military bases, and millions of refugees, and his safety cooperation is crucial to Israel, worried about the routine smuggling on the occupied west coast.
Any risk of Jordan’s stability also means the risk of allies. If the stability of Jordan’s superpower, the threat of unrest is his biggest weapon and his best defense.
Additional reporting: Mohamed Madi, BBC News
