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While both Egypt and Jordan initially rejected President Trump’s plan for Gaza, according to which both countries would take in more than two million residents of Gaza who would leave the Strip while its reconstruction was going on, it seems that Egypt is now willing to take in half a million Gazans “temporarily.” More on this offer, and why it was made, can be found here: “Egypt willing to temporarily absorb half a million evacuated Gazans – Lebanese report,” Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2025:
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that his country was ready to temporarily host half a million Gazans who would be evacuated from the Gaza Strip, according to a Friday report by Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
According to the report, the Gazans would be allocated a city in the north of the Sinai Peninsula.
Does this mean these Gazans would be housed in a city that is already in existence, or would a new city be built to accommodate them? Would new housing be built for them, or would a brand-new city be constructed for them in northern Sinai, as Egypt has managed to do in building New Cairo in the Western Desert?
The comment reportedly came during a conference held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the situation in the Middle East, in which the Egyptian leader was present, among other attendees.
According to the report, the temporary relocation offer has raised concerns with Jordan, which has previously taken a strong stance against such a move….
This offer by Egypt raises many questions. For Jordan, it is alarming, because it increases pressure on it to do the same, and to admit large numbers of Gazans whose increased presence would make the Palestinians, already more than 60% of Jordan’s population, rise to 70-75% of the total. This could threaten the rule of the Hashemite King Abdullah, who remembers how his father King Hussein had been challenged by Palestinians before, by the terrorists of Black September who tried to overthrow him in 1970.
It is also not clear what this offer means by “temporary” resettlement. Would it last the entire time that the reconstruction of Gaza is going on, or would the Gazans be expected to go back before then? Trump’s plan mentions a period of five years during which the Gazans would be expected to remain outside the Strip. For what period does El Sisi plan to house those half-million Gazans?
Was the offer made in good faith, or merely as a way for Egypt to curry favor with President Trump, with El-Sisi expecting no more than a handful of Gazans — certainly not half-a-million — to take up his offer?
Did the Trump administration put pressure on El-Sisi to make the offer, by threatening to cut off all aid to Egypt? Has it done the same with Jordan, or does it recognize that King Abdullah is in a different situation from El-Sisi, and worries about a still larger Palestinian population overwhelming the Jordanians in his kingdom?
Who would pay for the new housing in the northern Sinai? One assumes that the rich oil states of the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait, would be called on, rather than the United States. Trump has no interest in committing tens of billions of dollars to such a project. Has such a commitment from those states to provide necessary funds to Egypt been received?
Many questions remain. But it’s a sign that Trump’s plan for Gaza, though widely ridiculed when first proposed, is having a salutary effect.
Why should Gaza be rebuilt for them? 5 years later they attack again and it will need to be destroyed again? Temporary is no solution.It rewards them.
I agree. I want to believe Trump’s idea will work, but does it not rest upon the assumption that a clean, attractive environment (nurture) will cure all that ails humanity (nature)?
What ails the Gaza Arabs is Islamism. There seems to be no non-lethal cure for that.
We have so called Migrants and Open Borders Democrats they can have
“Temporary” should be until they all die of old age or other muslims!
One thing for sure – Egypt had better keep an eye on them and make sure NO WEAPONS or contact with the mullahs. If there was somewhere remote to keep them from the general population I would!
Now send a million to Turkey and let them have some fun!
Maybe Zelenski will offer to that a few hundred thousand men – ‘temporarily”!!
send them all to the sinai . if it was good enough for the jews to be stuck there for 40 yrs.until the generation that complained against god and moses all died then its ok to send the miserable fakestinians there . considering the egyptians have facilitated arming them and providing cement for tunnels and wont be happy , a few well placed bunker bombs will take out their military build up on the border . its a win win . time to play hardball .
The concept of permanent relocation is very good but moving them into countries that butt up against Israel; NO, NO, NO!!!
Moved by military transport, take them to the Democratic Republic of Congo, located deep within the African continent. There are those whose religion is Islam along with many others annd it is far, far away from the borders of Israel.
Unless people begin to understand the dangers to Israel of having greater violent, Jew-annihilating populations inhabiting countries right next door, even Trump’s suggestion is faulty.
The underlying premise of restoring Gaza to a Jew-hating population seems quite humanitarian but only for them.
The Gazans voted over 70% to keep Hamas in power and they are violent supporters of jihad.
Gaza needs to be reduced to rubble, all the tunnels destroyed. Then, many Israelis whose livelihoods have been brutalized, can begin the clearing and rebuilding of the area as part of the sovereign nation of Israel.. It is Israel and like the fomenting nightmare of Judea and Samaria all of this is the result of capitulation to these malevolent groups.
Jordon won’t want them and leaving any in Gaza is just stupid. As a Jew, I am deeply disappointed in what the multi-generational appeasers in Israel have done to our Holy land and the escalating dangers for our people living there.
Frankly, I do not trust these Arabs at all. Their Qur’an allows for the operation of duplicity as a regular means of infiltration and then violent action.
The world continues to deny reality holding onto ideals that are suicidal in a Middle East all of whose occupants, sans Israel, want all Jews dead and buried.
It is becoming harder and harder to live in a world where people are volitionally existing in the delusion that Islam is a religion of peace and those who are its victims are easily and readily painted as the villain and their destruction discarded as yesterdays news.
If half a million settle somewhere in the Sinai Peninsula what stops them from firing missiles into Israel? That time around Israel would have to retaliate against sovereign Egyptian soil.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Israel diesn’t just take Gaza back. They gave it to the Palestinians free and clear, forcefully removing 10,000 of their own civilians from their life long homes and even removing all the dead Jews from their graves. They evn left them a$2 billion greenhouse industry. Why? In exchange for peace.
The Gazans broke that peace so Israel has every right to just take it back, albeit 20 years later. It was a part of Israel, make it Israel again (without Gazana, Palestinians oe anyone who likes them). Why don’t they just reclaim it??
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