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De Morgen · 2025-02-05
A De Morgen analysis by Yannick Verberckmoes of Donald Trump's February 2025 plan to turn Gaza into a "Riviera of the Middle East", read as a real-estate view of the world. Omar Shaban, director of the Palestinian think tank Pal-Think, says Gazans who have just survived a year and a half of Israeli bombing will not leave and want to stay despite the destruction; he warns that if Trump uses economic aid to Egypt and Jordan as leverage to make them take in Palestinians, their populations will turn against their leaders and the whole region will be destabilised, recalling that about 60 percent of Jordan's population are already Palestinian refugees.
A De Morgen analysis by Yannick Verberckmoes of Donald Trump's February 2025 plan to turn Gaza into a "Riviera of the Middle East", read as a real-estate view of the world. Omar Shaban, director of the Palestinian think tank Pal-Think, says Gazans who have just survived a year and a half of Israeli…