AoSHQ The Morning Report
February 18, 2025
Jordan’s King Abdullah has just agreed to taking in some “Palestinians” according to President Trump’s Gaza plan. Spoken about for the first time publicly less than a week ago, Trump's plan was met with absolute refusals from Jordan, and the other Arab nations. But today, the first of those refusals is changing into acceptance.In Other News
This is just another instance of Trump winning and truly making America great and the world a safer place.
Abdullah agreed to immediately take 2,000 sick children into Jordan from Gaza. Not only is this a humanitarian move, but it is the opening for all of the people from Gaza who will be displaced to start to have a real home in their true ancestral land of Jordan and Egypt. Abdullah would not directly answer how many other Gazans would be welcomed into Jordan and repeatedly dodged giving a straight answer when asked that specific question. What the king did say is that the Arab nations will be coming to the White House to discuss the plan, and Trump expressed his confidence that they would all find a solution to this decades-old challenge.
The joint press conference by Abdullah and Trump follows on the heels of two other major announcements regarding Gaza and the international world. Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it clear that he is in perfect harmony with our President and that Hamas must release all hostages by this Saturday, or the ceasefire will be considered over. While Trump said that if this happens “all hell will break loose,” Netanyahu did not go quite that far. But he did make it clear that Israel is preparing to be much stronger against Hamas than they were during the Biden regime, and the IDF is preparing right now for that circumstance should it be needed.
We are living at a truly momentous time in history. Donald Trump illustrated that yet again on Tuesday evening during his press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You have to learn from history,” Trump declared and proceeded to upend the political order that has prevailed in the Middle East for decades. It is a multiply failed order and new approaches are very, very long overdue, but no one has dared to question it and suggest new solutions. Until now.In Other News
The most momentous announcement of this most momentous of press conferences was Trump’s declaration that Hamas would not be permitted to regain control of Gaza and that, in fact, the U.S. "will take over the Gaza Strip... we will own it." He also reiterated his insistence that 1.7 million Palestinians would be relocated to Egypt and Jordan, explaining several times that this was necessary because the failed policies of the past should not and must not be applied yet again.
Hamas, Trump said, had ruled Gaza for years and offered no options for the Palestinian people beyond bloodshed and death. He sketched out a vision of a restored Gaza that would be an international area, populated not just by Palestinian Arabs but by people from all over the world who would be able to enjoy its renaissance as the “Riviera of the Middle East.”