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Jordan has threatened to go to war with Israel if US president Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to ethnically cleanse Palestine of a few million Palestinians, but that doesn’t seem to bother him or his genocide sidekick, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli fuhrer is brushing aside previous Saudi pronouncements that any normalisation deal with the Nazi state is dependent on the establishment of a viable Palestinian state beforehand.
“The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there,” the Israeli premier told Israel’s Channel 14 after his chummy White House visit this week.
Not-so-friendly fire
When asked if the Saudis would agree to such a deal when they’re, in public at least, insisting on a Palestinian state, Netanyahu fired back that he “would not make an agreement that would endanger the State of Israel.
“Especially not a Palestinian state. After 7 October? Do you know what that is? There was a Palestinian state, it was called Gaza. Gaza, led by Hamas, was a Palestinian state, and look what we got – the biggest massacre since the Holocaust,” the premier said.
That’s despite his former defence minister Yoav Gallant revealing this week Israeli soldiers had deliberately killed hundreds of Israeli civilians that day to prevent them falling into the hands of Palestinians.
During an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on 7 February, Gallant admitted to ordering the controversial “Hannibal Protocol” that involves killing captives along with their captors.
Trump has cast a wider eye for a new refugee camp for Palestinians, suggesting Morocco, or the breakaway Somali “states” of Puntland and Somaliland, as possible new destinations. Either of the latter two choices would also conveniently parachute the Palestinians into the middle of two, or even three, (CIA-instigated) civil wars while also sticking the knife into Al-Shabbab.
Morocco has reportedly been promised sovereignty over Western Sahara if it agrees to the deal.
Smudging the red lines
During a post-meeting press conference with Netanyahu this week, Trump claimed Saudi Arabia is not demanding the creation of a viable Palestinian state as a precondition to “normalization”.
The Saudis immediately fired back that their commitment to Palestinian statehood was “firm and unwavering”, adding Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman would continue his “relentless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that”.
However, former US foreign secretary Antony Blinken famously revealed last year MBS has told him he “doesn’t care” about Palestine because Hamas is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood that seeks the downfall of his throne.
Trump is doubling down on his proposal for the United States to seize Gaza, saying the besieged enclave would be “turned over” to the US by Israel after it wraps up its genocide.
Yet another Nakba
Trump said on Truth Social: “The Palestinians … would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region. They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free. No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed!”
The Wall Street Journal reported Pentagon officials have received no formal request to draft a plan for US troop deployment to Gaza. Meanwhile, even some Republicans have come out in opposition, including Senator Lindsey Graham, who said other Senate Republicans opposed sending U.S. troops to Gaza.
Residents of Gaza compared Trump’s plan to the 1948 Nakba and the violent displacement of Palestinians from their land over the past several decades.
Jordanian ruler, King Abdullah, is due in the White House next Tuesday and is expected to tell Trump any attempt to force West Bank Palestinians into Jordan will result in all-out war. Many analysts say a tide of Palestinians being forced across the border into Jordan will almost certainly bring down his Hashemite monarchy.
Even being related to Nabie Karrim salAllahu alayi wasallm will not save his Jordanian throne that Abdullah’s family had enjoyed as reward for colluding with the British against the Turks during World War I.
It would be an ignominious end. Hashemites ruled Mecca from the 10th century CE until the British installed the house of Saud in Arabia after 1918.
Royal Shia roots
Abdullah’s family has watched their “kingdom” shrink irreversibly ever since, losing their post-WWI thrones in Mecca and the Hejaz, in Syria and Iraq. Their eponymous ancestor is traditionally considered to be Hashin ibn Abd Manaf, the great-grandfather of Nabie Karim salAllahu alayi wasallm.
They were Shii until the Turks took over Arabia, when they became followers of the Shafi adhab.
An end to the Hashemites in Jordan would be a very sorry-but-predictable ending to a state that had a very sorry and treacherous beginning.
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has the military wherewithal to resist an Israeli attempt to force Gazans into the Sinai, but the Americans could probably swing a deal to change his mind as he nervously eyes the disintegration of Sudan and Somalia in the south and Ethiopia’s potential chokehold on the Nile with its Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Two days after Trump’s White House bromance with Netanyahu, the Israeli military was ordered to prepare plans for the transfer of large numbers of Palestinians out of Gaza via land, air and sea.
Seventy nine nations lined up to condemn the call, saying it threatened “the international rule of law”, but Israel fired back, saying Ireland and Spain – the biggest EU critics of its Gaza genocide – should take in Palestinians if they care so much.
Rebuilding Gaza is the real priority
The Cradle reports Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares spurned the suggestion of Israeli war chief Israel Katz that Madrid should accept Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza.
“First of all … no one should even be debating about where Palestinian Gazans should go, because that debate is closed. The land of Palestinian Gazans is Gaza. Gaza should be part of the future Palestinian state, just as Spain and the majority of the planet’s nations recognize,” Albares said in an interview with broadcaster RNE.
“What we are doing is introducing our humanitarian aid as much as possible to help the people after more than 45,000 innocent people fell victim to indiscriminate bombings,” Albares added. The world needed to help rebuild Gaza as a “first step” to getting the state of Palestine “on its feet.”
Ireland’s Foreign Ministry also criticized Katz’s comments, calling them “unhelpful and a source of distraction.”
“The objective must be a massive scale-up of aid into Gaza, return of basic services, and a clear framework under which those displaced can return,” the ministry said.
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