Proposal of President Trump to take over the United States Gaza’s belt, while other countries take in Palestinians living there is the Agreement King Abdullah II of Jordan can’t.
The monarch gently rejected Mr. Trump, speaking to him at the White House on Tuesday that the US president was essential for peace in the Middle East and promised that Jordan would host more Palestinians who needed medical care. And it seemed that the approach was assured by Mr. Trump to go back threats before visiting the withdrawal of help Jordan if he rejected his plan.
Still, the term set naked dilemmas for King Abdullah, whose family – and the land they ruled for generations – has a complex relationship with Palestinians who sometimes became violent.
Here’s what to know about the presidential plan and history that informs the king’s rejection.
The president’s proposal is unclear and surprised even his advisers when he presented him last week. Mr. Trump was not consistent or clear, which means, unless his plan seems to be relied on Jordan and Egypt, among other things, accepting the huge appearance of Palestinian refugees.
Mr. Trump said Gaza with about 2 million people will be eagerly abandoned and does not want to return. But also suggested that they could be forced and not allowed, what would violate international lawand damage the long -standing vision of the Palestinian state made up of gauze and west coast.
Either way, the King of Jordan is a cautious, not at least because it is a great wave of Palestinians who entered his country after encouraging a bloody conflict in Jordan in the past in conflict with Israel.
Why is the plan problematic for Jordan?
King Jordan cannot agree to Mr. Trump’s plan without risking anger of different important elements of his country’s population.
Palestinian refugees’ rush would further move the demographics of a nation, which already has a large Palestinian population-a newly-priced number of Jordanci with Palestinian background varies from one quarter to two-thirds and could light the tension between them and other Jordanac. And this could disrupt the sensitive balance that the monarch tries to maintain between the preservation of different Jordanic interests, while standing with its citizens of Palestinian origin or origin, and also supports the establishment of the Palestinian state.
Accepting Gazan on a temporary or constant basis could practically and philosophically undermine the struggle for Palestinian statehood, potentially causing unrest in Jordan and beyond. At the same time, a wave of new refugees would also be an IRK -LOJALIST OF THE SHEP MARNAHY WHICH ARE BEAUTIFUL JORDAN becomes a de facto Palestinian state.
More Palestinian migrations can also endanger Jordan’s economic stability – and if the past is a precedent, national security. This could provide an opening of an armed Palestinian group Hamas, which has long had power in Gaza. Jordan 1999 cracked on the hammass, He closed his offices in the country, expelled some figures in the group and forbade his leaders to perform political activities in the country.
“Jordan has a long and very bad history with organized Palestinian movements,” said Aaron David Miller, an older colleague at Carnegie Endowment and a former negotiator of the Middle East of the State Department.
What was the Jordanian attitude towards Palestinians?
In the wars surrounding the creation of Israel in 1948, about 700,000 Palestinians escaped or expelled from the new country – to the west coast, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria.
Jordan seized and annexed the western coast and East Jerusalem, and Egypt took Gaza, preventing the creation of the Palestinian state provided in the plan of division of the United Nations.
As a result of annexation and a large number of refugees, Jordan remained with a significant Palestinian population and became the main base of operations for Palestinian armed groups that fight Israel.
But in the 1967 war with the Arab countries, Israel occupied the West Coast, which is still occupied and annexed by East Jerusalem. The war encouraged another flow of Palestinian refugees in Jordan, about 300,000.
Two decades later, Jordan gave up the request for this territory, and abolished the Jordanic citizenship of some Palestinians living on the western coast and eastern Jerusalem, who now have more than 3 million.
Today, the estimated number of Jordanci with Palestinian background varies from one quarter to two -thirds.
On the whole, the Palestinians in Jordan are poorer and are less represented in the Government than other Jordanci.
When did Jordan clash with Palestinians?
The most prominent showdown between Jordan and Palestinian groups began in September 1970, and some Palestinians also called Black September. But the crisis was rooted in the 1967 war, when the Palestinian Appendix led to new refugee camps in Jordan and encouraged an increase in militant groups such as the Palestine release organization that operated militia within the state.
Things worsened when the popular front for the release of Palestine’s abducted aircraft planes for New York and London, and three landed on a remote air in Jordan in September 1970. The kidnappers have requested the release of Palestinian militants closed in Europe in exchange for more than 300 passengers. Most of the prisoners of airlines were released within a few days, but some were held during the month.
The king imposed war law and intensive struggles followed between his military and Palestinian fighters, which lasted for a long time in the next year. By the summer of 1971, Palestinian forces expelled from Jordan and went to Lebanon.
“The rest of 1970 hangs over everyone in the Kingdom,” said Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute of Middle East Policy,
Are there any personal concerns for the king?
Standing King Abdullah in Jordan is partly resting on him and his wife, Queen Rania, who is Palestinian origin, who is a longtime, vocal advocates of Palestinian things and Palestinian statehood.
Any move that is considered to be undergoing this cause could endanger its retaining power. And the relationship between Jordan’s rulers and Palestinians was often outraged and sometimes deadly.
The present King’s great -grandfather, Abdullah and, reigned in Jordan the first when it was a British protectorate, and then as the first monarch of the independent kingdom of Jordan, founded in 1946.
The roots of the Jordan royal family in Saudi Arabia have long been charged with some Palestinians that they were outsiders, and their friendly relations with Western forces – and later caused additional political friction with Israel.
King Abdullah I was killed in 1951 in the Al Aqs mosque in Jerusalem of Palestinians who was angry with the discovery that the monarch was Secret negotiating with Israel.
His grandson, King Hussein, a ruler from 1952 to 1999, was further contemptuous as weak because of his war losses and faced attempts to assassination and threats of rejection.
