Jordan King Faces Quagmire Over Trump's Gaza Proposal

Fuente: International Business Times

Jordan's King Abdullah II caught between US President Donald Trump's vision for Gaza and his own long-held positions AFP Jordan's King Abdullah II was visibly uncomfortable as he sat across from US President Donald Trump and discussed the fate of over two million Palestinians in Gaza. Trump's proposed plan to take over Gaza and "clean out" the territory of its Palestinian residents, sending them to Jordan or Egypt, had already sent the region into a tailspin. But in Tuesday's meeting in Washington, the tension between Trump's vision and the reality that King Abdullah -- whose wife is of Palestinian descent -- has long negotiated was palpable in the exchange between the two leaders.