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I am a Jordanian Palestinian and I support Trump’s settlement plans for Gazans
American Thinker ^ | 02/10/2025 | Mudar Zahran

Posted on 02/10/2025 9:35:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Gaza’s Palestinians relocate to Jordan and Egypt on a “short term or long term” basis has been dismissed as diplomatically “unprecedented.”

The critics are wrong.

Jordan is a majority Palestinian state ruled by an ethnic Hashemite monarchy of fewer than 100 people. If Palestinians have a “right of return,” it’s to Jordan. Palestinians in the West Bank/Judea & Samaria and Gaza were Jordanian and remain so, despite the Hashemite Kingdom’s abandonment of them.

Jordan and Egypt oppose assuming responsibility for the Palestinians. “They will,” says President Trump. He is right — both historically and legally. Jordan’s own nationality law confirms that Palestinians are legally Jordanian. According to Jordanian Nationality Law No. (6) of 1954: "Anyone who held Palestinian nationality before May 15, 1948, and habitually resided in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan between December 20, 1949, and February 16, 1954, is considered a Jordanian citizen."

In 1951, Jordan’s Hashemite regime declared sovereignty over Palestinian territories designated for Arabs under the U.N. Partition Plan. The Jericho Conference formalized this, with Palestinians recognizing the Hashemites as "Kings of Palestine." Consequently, every resident of Gaza was considered a Jordanian citizen between 1949 and 1954. By rejecting Trump’s proposal, the Hashemite regime violates international law, which prohibits rendering individuals stateless or denying them entry into their own country.

Jordan occupies 78% of British Mandate Palestine. The British installed the Hashemites as rulers until 1946. In 1949, Jordan revoked Palestinians' British Palestinian passports and replaced them with Jordanian passports. Most Gazans are refugees from areas previously controlled by Jordan’s Hashemite regime, making them Jordanian citizens by ancestry with the right to return.

Like many post-colonial Arab states, Jordan is an artificial entity. It lacked its own passport until 1949, relying instead on British-issued Palestinian passports.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; palestine; repatriation
As a reminder: The UN only recognized Jordan as a state in 1955.
1 posted on 02/10/2025 9:35:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

There is about $500 billion in fossil fuels off the coast of Gaza.

At about two million Gazans, that’s about $250,000 each.

They’re not going to leave that to others.

Prime Mediterranean land is valuable too.


2 posted on 02/10/2025 9:41:19 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

My suggestion.....

Move the UN to Gaza. Put Trump’s park of patriot statues on the vacated land. UN can show the world what great peacekeepers they are.

https://x.com/ChanelRion/status/1888033423102497067


3 posted on 02/10/2025 9:42:25 AM PST by JudyinCanada (Praying that America's Golden Age includes Canada.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Palestinians express shock and defiance at Trump plan”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78xre2ynd4o


4 posted on 02/10/2025 9:48:11 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Yeah, but there is nothing to eat and nowhere to live. The place is a moonscape.


5 posted on 02/10/2025 9:49:38 AM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: Brian Griffin

“Palestinians express shock and defiance at Trump plan”

Who didn’t anticipate that? That’s the hill they will unfortunately die on, literally. I suspect it’s going to happen now that the peace deal broke down between Hamas and Israel. The fighting will start right back up, and the rest of GAZA will be rubble. After it’s rubble, nobody will want to repair it because of the risk. People will have to be displaced.


6 posted on 02/10/2025 10:00:25 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: SeekAndFind
A major part of the 1870 renovation of Paris by Napoleon III was because of the unemployed, no skill people. They used muscle power from the locals promising skills and a nice clean apt for their family. That project is what created the Paris we know today.
This could work in Gaza, it could be spectacular. Hopefully the Saudis will kick in funds and management skill, they do know how to build. It would keep the Palestinians at home (in about 10 years) starting sooner with the laborers.
7 posted on 02/10/2025 10:27:50 AM PST by Jolla
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That project is what created the Paris we know today.

You mean the Paris we knew in the 20th century.

The Paris we know today was created by globalists destabilizing half the world and orchestrating the invasion of Europe by Middle Easterners and Africans.

8 posted on 02/10/2025 10:51:05 AM PST by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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"I am a Jordanian Palestinian Arab and I support Trump’s settlement plans for Gazans." That is the correct title. There is no such thing as a "Palestinian." They are simply Arabs, having the same language, religion and culture as other Arabs.There was never a state named Palestine from which "Palestinians" came from. Yassir Arafat was not "Palestinian," he was born in Egypt and therefore an Egytptian Arab.
9 posted on 02/10/2025 11:48:59 AM PST by Fungi
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