According to media reports in Israel, President Trump is poised to demand that the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which handles aid to 5.3 million Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, formally revoke refugee status from over 90% of them.
President Trump had been reported to want to undercut the UNRWA in the past, pressuring Jordan to revoke the refugee status of the millions of Palestinians there. He now wants a global cap of Palestinian refugees of 500,000, irrespective of circumstances.
Trump is said in particular to object to the idea that the children of refugees are also refugees. In practice, however, the refugees are stateless, and with the US opposing the right of return, the refugees are in a practical multi-generational refugee status with no end in sight.
Previous reports suggested Trump wanted to “handle” the problem of the large number of refugees by redefining it down to a more manageable number. It seems, however, this will be done by simple diktat, and that there is no plan for what happens to the other 4.8 million refugees once they’re off the books.
This comes less than a week after President Trump promised the Palestinians would “get something very good” in return for losing Jerusalem. Since then, Trump has also diverted $200 million in aid meant for the Palestinians to be spent elsewhere.
It seems the Zionist are firmly in control of the WH.
What does this accomplish? This is not a rhetorical question.
It is part of the larger Israeli plan to ensure the whole people are resettled elsewhere, and never return to Israel. The plan is, “Just go away, leave us with everything.”
If Trump can redefine the problem arbitrarily, “solving” it gets a lot easier. Few enough, and Israel might even let them return if severely bribed into it, as long as doing so won’t change Israel’s demographics away from a Jewish majority.
It accomplishes the same thing holocaust denial does. Redefines reality.
Well now that’s pretty revealing right there. Boy that Trump guy is a real “maverick” when it comes to foreign policy !!! No president in US history has ever sided with ISISrael before ! He’s a real libertarian champion fighting against globalism and ending our policing of the world alright !!
Pfffffttt !
Everywhere else, the children born of refugees in camps are also refugees. If the camps are just run on forever, as with Palestinians, that does not change.
The only way to change it is to resolve the refugee status of all of them, and close the camps. That means return or resettlement. Normally, it means return, as it should in this case. There is no reason the UN should enable the taking of a country, that was never the UN plan.
There is plenty of underpopulated lands to the West of the Gaza strip that could be made fertile with modern desalinization methods. Resettlement and terraforming would be a better solution that forever sacrificing one’s children in an unending war
Could be that Trump plans to recognize the “settlers” in the W. Bank as refugees.
Besides the effects of all his disastrous foreign and domestic decisions, Trump must be one of the cruelest and nastiest people, lacking any compassion, fairness or judgment, among the vast number of such people in the ranks of the Republican and Democratic Parties of the USA.