Muslims in US Say Trump’s Plan to Emptying Gaza of Palestinians Is Delusional
Palestinian families wait to return to the northern Gaza Strip from the southern Gaza Strip, along Rashid Road, west of Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, 26 January 2025. Photo: EFE/EPA/HAITHAM IMAD
January 26, 2025 Hour: 4:43 pm
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim organization in the United States, described President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate more than a million Gazans to Egypt and Jordan as “delusional and dangerous” this Saturday.
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Those statements occurred after Trump explained to reporters on board the Air Force One on Saturday that he had spoken on the phone with the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, on the possibility of housing and moving more than one million Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries such as Jordan and Egypt.
“The idea of carrying out an ethnic cleansing of more than a million Palestinians in Gaza is delusional and dangerous. The Palestinian people are not willing to leave Gaza, and neighboring countries are not willing to help Israel carry out ethnic cleansing,” CAIR stated in a press release.
The organization noted that if Trump “seriously wants to achieve some kind of major peace agreement in the Middle East, he needs to take things seriously and do it quickly.”
The body pointed out that “the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace is to force the Israeli government to end its occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people.”
CAIR also condemned the Republican’s decision to transfer a shipment of 1,800 bombs weighing 900 kilograms to Israel, which had been halted by the previous Joe Biden Administration for fear they would be used in densely populated areas of Gaza.
“President Trump must stop pursuing a foreign policy that prioritizes Israel and start pursuing a foreign policy that prioritizes the United States,” he stated.
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: EFE