Middle East
Palestinians “don’t want to come to Jordan and we don’t want them to come to Jordan,” the kingdom’s foreign minister said.
“Any plan that leaves Hamas there is going to be a problem, because Israel is not going to tolerate it.”
Ahmed Aboul Gheit claimed Palestinians in Judea and Samaria would be the next target for resettlement.
The U.S. secretary of state seconded the president’s idea that the Gazans should be relocated, at least temporarily.
“There are grounds to be optimistic about real change,” a spokesman for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis told JNS.
The feeling among the prime minister’s inner circle is that Israel is now navigating the next strategic and diplomatic chapter of the war among friends.
Adam Boehler criticized Baghdad for failing to secure the release of Princeton researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov.
“It’s a remarkable idea and I think that it should be really pursued, examined, pursued and done, because I think it will create a different future for everyone.”
“I think it’s actually quite evil to suggest that people should live in such dire conditions,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters about life in Gaza.
Excavation of a 2,500-year-old burial site revealed tombs of trade caravans from Yemen, Phoenicia and Egypt that traveled through the Land of Israel.
Instead, the foreign ministers demand that Palestinians be involved in the rebuilding of the coastal enclave.
The one major similarity between the two visits: Both granted the opportunity to make Israel’s embattled prime minister even stronger.
