Less than a week after taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump sparked controversy by advocating the resettlement of Gaza’s Palestinian residents in neighboring Arab countries.
Trump told reporters of a Jan. 25 telephone call with Jordan’s King Abdullah.
“I said to him ‘I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess.’ I’d like him to take people,” Trump said, speaking to reporters on Air Force One.
“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump said, adding he would be speaking to that nation’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi….