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06.23 GMT
What will
happen in Trump's meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II?
President
Donald Trump will host Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday
as he escalates pressure on the Arab nation to take in refugees from Gaza —
perhaps permanently — as part of his audacious plan to remake the Middle East,
the Associated Press reports.
The visit
is happening at a perilous moment for the ongoing ceasefire in Gaza as Hamas,
accusing Israel of violating the truce, has said it is pausing future releases
of hostages and as Trump has called for Israel to resume fighting if all those
remaining in captivity are not freed by this weekend.
Trump has
proposed the US take control of Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the
Middle East,” with Palestinians in the war-torn territory pushed into
neighbouring nations with no right of return.
He
suggested on Monday that, if necessary, he would withhold US funding from
Jordan and Egypt, longtime US allies and among the top recipients of its
foreign aid, as a means of persuading them to accept additional Palestinians
from Gaza.
“Yeah,
maybe. Sure, why not?” Trump told reporters. “If they don’t, I would
conceivably withhold aid, yes.”
Jordan is
home to more than 2 million Palestinians and, along with other Arab states, has
flatly rejected Trump’s plan to relocate civilians from Gaza.
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