{"id":12109,"date":"2023-11-27T01:46:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T01:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/firebrand-pol-under-fire-for-suggesting-palestinians-be-relocated\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T01:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T01:46:19","slug":"firebrand-pol-under-fire-for-suggesting-palestinians-be-relocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/firebrand-pol-under-fire-for-suggesting-palestinians-be-relocated\/","title":{"rendered":"Firebrand pol under fire for suggesting Palestinians be relocated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders is facing condemnation from multiple Arab states after suggesting that the war between Hamas and Israel could be remedied if Palestinians are relocated to Jordan.<\/p>\n

\u2018Jordan is Palestine!\u2019 Wilders tweeted Saturday, linking to a Politico story that detailed how Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Yemen and the Arab League issued statements to condemn the suggestion that Palestinians should be relocated to Jordan.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Authority said Wilders\u2019 proposal is \u2018a call to escalate the aggression against our people and a blatant interference in their affairs and future.\u2019 While the UAE embassy in the Netherlands called Wilders\u2019 suggestion \u2018irresponsible,\u2019 leaders in Jordan labeled the suggestion a \u2018racist position,\u2019 Arab News reported.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Jordan rejects any proposal that undermines the rights of the Palestinian people or their quest for an independent state,\u2019 Jordan\u2019s foreign minister said of Wilders\u2019 position. \u2018We remain committed to a two-state solution with east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, in accordance with international consensus.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jordan, along with other Arab states such as Egypt, said last month it would not accept any Palestinian refugees amid the war over reported fears that Israel wants to permanently remove Palestinians from Gaza into other nations, as well as concern that militants could be among refugees, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

\u2018No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt,\u2019 Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah II said last month.<\/p>\n

\u2018Jordan indeed is Palestine, I already spoke about it many years ago in Israel in 2010,\u2019 Wilders told Fox News Digital in an emailed comment Sunday. He linked to a news article from 2010 in which he detailed his argument that Jordan should be renamed Palestine.<\/p>\n

\u2018Changing its name to Palestine will end the conflict in the Middle East and provide the Palestinians with an alternate homeland,\u2019 he said at the time.<\/p>\n

Wilders said he repeated the same argument from years ago \u2018and Arab nations complained again and stronger, I guess because I won the Dutch national elections last week.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I always said that relocation should be voluntary not compulsory. But I would applaud a massive voluntary relocation indeed,\u2019 Wilders continued in his comment to Fox.<\/p>\n

Wilders, dubbed in the media as the \u2018Dutch Donald Trump,\u2019 is the leader and founder of the Netherlands\u2019 Party for Freedom, which saw a massive election win last week that positions Wilders to form the next ruling party and potentially become the country\u2019s next prime minister.<\/p>\n

\u2018I had to pinch my arm,\u2019 Wilders said after the surprising election results, the Times of Israel reported. Wilders has only once before come close to governing the Netherlands when he supported the first coalition formed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dutch politician is a noted supporter of Israel, including displaying the Israeli flag in his office after Hamas\u2019 attacks on the nation on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

He has also championed closing the Netherlands\u2019 borders to immigrants, called for a referendum on the Netherlands leaving the European Union, has been labeled anti-Islamic, and he faced death threats over a handful of previous statements, including calling Islam a \u2018fascist ideology\u2019 and a \u2018backward religion\u2019 and arguing Muhammad was a \u2018pedophile,\u2019 Reuters reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The Netherlands can\u2019t take it anymore,\u2019 he said during a debate ahead of the election. \u2018We have to think about our own people first now, borders closed, zero asylum-seekers.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Bradford Betz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

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