The lasting significance of Donald Trump’s stunning plan to “take over” the Gaza Strip and “permanently” resettle the roughly 2 million Palestinians who live there may be that it legitimized one option that,

U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that he wants to “ clean out ” Gaza raised alarm in many quarters, but perhaps nowhere more so than in Jordan. On a Jan. 25 call, Trump pressured Jordanian King Abdullah II to take in many more Palestinian refugees in what would amount to a de facto ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Jordan's King Abdullah said on Wednesday he rejected any attempts to annex land and displace Palestinians after a shock proposal by President Donald Trump that the U.S. take over Gaza, an issue that strikes a raw nerve in the kingdom.