Jasmine El-Gamal: Abdullah II to address refugee issue

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King Abdullah II will highlight the number of Palestinian refugees in Jordan during his upcoming discussions with US President Donald Trump, Middle East policy analyst and former Pentagon Middle East advisor Jasmine El-Gamal says.  #Jordan #Palestine

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00:00He's also likely going to mention the fact that Jordan has already taken millions of

00:04Palestinian refugees over the years, and that continuing to try to empty out Palestinian

00:10territory from its inhabitants is not going to provide any sort of semblance of security

00:17or stability in the region moving forward.

00:20If anything, it's only going to cause more chaos, more displacement.

00:25It's going to give terrorists more fodder for recruitment, for resistance.

00:30And so nothing about this plan, if we can call it a plan, as you said, really makes

00:34a lot of sense.

00:36I think you'll see Jordan's King Abdullah reiterating to Donald Trump the importance

00:41of the Arab Peace Initiative, the significance of that, and the importance of putting some

00:46pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to meet the Arab states in the middle and try to focus

00:52on how Israel is going to continue to honor its commitments to the ceasefire as we go

00:59into negotiations over phase two and three, and how we're going to move forward in the

01:04region in a way that makes all of the countries in the region secure and stable, not just

01:09the Israelis.

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