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Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees and floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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What could possibly go wrong with the forced insertion of a group of people into a concentrated geographic region?
Just stick them in Kurdistan. Land without a people for a people without a land ... I think I've seen this one before ...
Jordan is already majority Palestinian. It even used to be part of the British Mandate for Palestine. Culture and language in Jordan are very close to Palestine in general.
Ignoring the genocidal premise of forcibly moving Palestinians off their land after Israel just razed their houses, Jordan is a tiny country of 10million people who have their own cultural identity beyond being Arab or close to Palestine.
They are already home to 3 million refugees, most of whom are Palestinian, and 1 million are Iraqis. To ask them to take on anyone else is beyond a joke. Especially when Israel and the US have spent decades finding new ways to destabilise its neighbours and make them flee into its borders. Jordan is also not a rich country. Wealthier countries need to step up, and that should include the US given its culpability in this genocide. But the US has just elected a man-baby who will bemoan its international responsibilities for the next 4 years so there's no chance of that happening.
I understand where you coming from but that view seems half informed. The whole cultural identity argument was also pushed by Arafat as a way to force Palestinians to stay in Gaza instead of assimilating into Israeli society or leaving to Egypt, Syria, or Jordan
Whether or not it was emphasised by him, Yasser Arafat did not invent Palestinian culture. He did not invent eating musakhan, singing ataaba songs at weddings or any of the children's games that Palestinian children play.
To believe that Palestinians have no distinct identity, you would have to ignore the fact that Palestinians are a distinct group within the neighbouring countries that they live in. Families who have lived for 2-3 generations in places like Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon continue to view themselves as Palestinian, and continue to maintain cultural traditions particular to the place they were expelled from.
Fair argument. My point, however, is that many, many Palestinians wanted out to avoid suffering but the PLA and then Hezbollah made it purposefully difficult for them to leave so that those political leaders would have people forcibly kept there to help bolster their personal political agendas. Being expelled is not right but if people want out to avoid suffering, they should be allowed to go
Most of the millions of Palestinian refugees living in Jordan were born in Jordan. They are descendants of refugees from 1948 and 1967. They live in regular housing. The so called Palestinian refugee camps ins Jordan look and operate like normal towns.
Maybe the people of Gaza should be asked what they want. I’m sure some would prefer living in Jordan.
Having been there and seen them, no they are not. In addition, Palestinians in Jordan do not have the same rights as Jordanians.
You have just breezed past the point that Jordan has one of the highest percentages of refugees in the world, they are not a rich country, and the fact that some colonialists want to dump more on them is a crime.
Your post history shows that you're an unrepentant genocide denier, so don't try to pretend that you care what the people of Gaza want. Especially not when your original comment boils down to 'they're all Arabs, they should live with the other Arabs.' Which is a much loved, but entirely bullshit Zionist argument that has been used to dispossess the Palestinians for decades.
I would prefer nobody died or have to leave their home in this region.
Arabs are pretty different. I was talking about Jordan specifically.
Oh ok never mind then, genocide back on (and yes, this is still genocide).
Refugees leaving a warzone is genocide?