Trump Shakes Up Mideast Diplomacy With Call To Resettle Gazans in Arab Countries– freebeacon.com

Trump Shakes Up Mideast Diplomacy With Call To Resettle Gazans in Arab Countries– freebeacon.com
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JERUSALEM—President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he wants to resettle residents of the Gaza Strip in Arab countries, shaking up Middle East diplomacy in signature style. 

The president told reporters on Air Force One that he had asked King Abdullah II of Jordan in a phone call earlier in the day to “take people” from war-torn Gaza and that he planned to make a similar request of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a phone call on Sunday. Trump suggested that mass emigration from the strip, whether “temporarily” or “long term,” could help resolve “centuries” of conflict.

“You’re talking about a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know over the centuries it has had many, many conflicts, and I don’t know, something has to happen,” Trump said. “But it’s literally a demolition site right now, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there. So I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where [Gazans] can maybe live in peace for a change.”