A proposal by the president of the US, Donald Trump, to reassure Palestinian refugees in Egypt and Jordan was rejected by both Arab countries.
Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian authority rejected on the weekend the proposal of US President Donald Trump to reassure the residents of the Gaza Strip in Egypt or Jordan.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement that said that its government supports “the insistence of the Palestinian people to remain in their land, defending their legitimate rights and respecting international law.”
Egyptian public opinion continues to firmly oppose the resettlement of Palestinians in Egyptian territory.
President Abdel Fattaah El-Sissi recently told a multitude of military officers that it would be easy to resettle some Palestinians in the Sinai, but the difficulty would be to get someone in Egypt to accept the idea.
Khattar Abou Diab, who teaches political science at the University of Paris, told La LA Youth that despite the difficult economic situation in Egypt and the fact that there could be a significant economic gain by accepting Trump's proposal to resettle Some Palestinians in the country, a great segment of the Egyptian public would refuse to do so.
Paul Sullivan, former professor at the American University of Cairo and a member of Atlantic Council, agreed and told VOA that such a proposal is unacceptable to the Egyptians.
“No Egyptian leader who wants to remain in power would accept such a request,” he said. “It would destabilize Egypt and probably lead to greater regional instability.”
In Jordan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi, also rejected Trump's proposal, saying that “Palestine is for the Palestinians and Jordan is for the Jordanians and that the solution to the Palestinian problem is located on Palestinian soil and embodied by a state Palestinian”.