Israeli Minister: Trump’s idea regarding immigration from Gaza may save Netanyahu’s government
The Times of Israel reported: An Israeli minister said that the US President’s statement about Jordan and Egypt receiving Palestinians from Gaza is partly aimed at helping Netanyahu prevent his government from collapsing.
According to one of the ministers in the security cabinet, Trump’s statement, which he made to the press aboard Air Force One as the president returned from California to Washington on Saturday, was likely coordinated with Netanyahu and was intended in part to help Netanyahu prevent his government from collapsing over a ceasefire agreement. The current fire with Hamas.
According to the minister, who spoke to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity, the issue of encouraging voluntary Palestinian immigration is now back on the agenda, just as the extreme right-wing Religious Zionist parties and the Otzma Party wanted. Yehudit for a long time.
The minister said that the possibility that the American President would push for the transfer of “perhaps one and a half million people” From Gaza today, he said, could put an end to religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich’s threats to leave the government, thus enabling the completion of the ceasefire deal and perhaps even pushing the return of Itamar Ben Gvir and his party to the coalition.
The minister told the Times. Of Israel: “Everyone who heard Trump understood that this was coordinated and transparent.”
“The Prime Minister spoke about voluntary immigration at the beginning, with Likud ministers, We have even begun to make efforts in this direction. These statements sparked global opposition, so we stopped, even though we know that this is the only solution.”
He added: “The issue of voluntary migration will now become the focus of our attention. Trump himself will discuss the matter with the President of Egypt.
Netanyahu will travel to meet Trump in Washington within two to three weeks, in the midst of negotiations on the second and third phases of the hostage deal.
The minister said that "If everyone agreed to immigration, there would be no need to resume the war, and no one would have a problem with the second phase of the current deal.
Palestinians would move from Gaza to Jordan, Egypt, or Indonesia. Trump will rebuild Gaza, and in three years, we will see what happens,” he said.
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