Joel Gehrke is foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team is trying to finalize plans to create a safe haven where Palestinian civilians in Gaza can receive humanitarian aid, but the presence of Hamas terrorists remains a major impediment.
“Transferring the refugees, the Palestinian citizens, from the strip to Sinai would simply be transferring their resistance, the fighting, from the Gaza Strip to Sinai,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi said Wednesday, according to a translation from an Egyptian media outlet. “Egypt would bear the consequences of that. Sinai would become a base for terrorist operations against Israel, and we, in Egypt, would bear the responsibility for that.
“If there is a proposal to displace Palestinians, Israel has the Negev desert and can transfer Palestinians there until it finishes its mission of eliminating resistance factions or armed groups, including Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and others, then move them back if it wants,” Sisi said. “But moving them to Egypt? Such a military operation is very loose and can last for years.”
“The Jordanian monarchy believed, and probably rightly, that the PLO was looking to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy, and, you know, in effect turn Jordan into a Palestinian state,” American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Kenneth Pollack said. “There are very serious tensions between the Jordanian Palestinians and what are called the East Bankers tend to support the monarchy far more strongly than the Palestinians, who, you know, tend to regard it as … an unnecessary evil.
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