King Abdullah fawns and simpers while King Donald plans a Gaza real estate deal

Alameen Templeton

He went there to declare war, if necessary, but Jordan’s King Abdullah Tuesday chose instead to simper, prevaricate, equivocate, flatter and deflect while sitting next to America’s King Donald (KDT) who brashly declared Gaza was US property.

Ignoring his royal guest almost through the entirety of a brief press conference held in a square room before a closed-door meeting in the oval office, Donald declared: “We’re not going to buy anything. We’re going to have it.

“We’re going to keep it, and we’re going to make sure that there’s going to be peace and there’s not going to be any problem, and nobody’s going to question it, and we’re going to run it very properly.”

Don’t mention the war

As for the Palestinians, they’d be thrown out.

Donald announced Jordan and Egypt would give “parcels of land” to them, knowing full well Abdullah had assured the clan elders back home he’d make it very clear any attempt to expel Palestinians into Jordan would be a declaration of war.

Instead of warnings of war, Abdullah announced he’d rather be attending a meeting. It seems he was called shortly before his oval office meeting with KDT to be told Saudi prince Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) had had an idea and wanted to discuss it with other Arab rulers.

KDT seemed to think Hamas had been behind the brutal murder of about 80 000 Palestinians, promising Gazans would well looked after by the US in other people’s countries.

Of course, Donald made no mention of the Palestinian dead.

But neither did Abdullah.

Instead, he alluded to a cunning-but-as-yet-non-existent plan that would “work in a way that is good for everybody”.

Gazans already forgotten

Abdullah’s “everybody” meant “the best interests of the United States, of the people in the region, especially to my people in Jordan”.

Again, he made no mention of the Palestinians.

Abdullah then sang Donald’s praises, thanking him for the ceasefire, gushing: “I finally see somebody that can take us across the finish line to bring stability, peace and prosperity to all of us in the region”.

That’s not quite the message the clan elders and everybody else in Jordan was expecting.

Abdullah didn’t mention Donald had threatened to end the ceasefire this coming Saturday if Hamas refuses to hand over the last hostages on schedule. Israeli fuhrer Benjamin Netanyahu has doubled down on the threats.

Hamas says it will not continue with the deal because the Israelis are constantly breaking the truce conditions and it is already clear the genocide will restart as soon as the last hostages are released.

A bloviating schoolyard bully

Donald has also threatened to cut off a billion dollars each in aid money that flows to Egypt and Jordan every year.

So, he’s slapping them around like a schoolyard bully, bloviating about exiling the Palestinians beyond the Arab world. Morocco, Puntland and Somaliland are his ideas of where the Palestinians are “going to end up having a great home” where they “don’t have to get mugged and killed and beaten up and harassed by Hamas and everybody else”.

Donald never pointed out the “everybody else” is the US and Israel.

Morocco’s been promised the Western Sahara; the other two breakaway arms of Somalia have been promised some kind of US recognition if they agree to be the dustbins at the end of KDT’s ethnic cleansing pogrom.

Donald’s telling the world the Palestinians won’t be allowed back Gaza after he rebuilds it.

That’s incensed Egyptian pharaoh Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who cancelled a scheduled White House visit amid fury in the Arab world over Donald’s remarks that he’d turn Gaza into a beach resort and force Egypt to take in Palestinians.

But King Hamad of Bahrain will still be making an appearance.

Many commentators in the Arab world questioned King Donald’s sanity. Mouin Rabbani, of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs said he clearly had no idea what he was talking about, but seemed to believe his estate agent approach to Arabia would see him through.

“(Donald) is clearly living in some Israeli-infused fantasy land,” he said.