Former US president Donald Trump offered control of the West Bank to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, a shocking proposal that led the monarch to think he was having a heart attack, according to a new book.
Times of Israel
Trump offered a ‘great deal’ to the king in January 2018 of ‘complete control over the West Bank’ according to The Washington Post’s excerpts of an upcoming book.
‘I thought I was having a heart attack,’ Abdullah II told an American friend later that same year. ‘I couldn’t breathe. I was bent doubled-over,’ the king said.
The book said Trump believed he would be doing the king a favor with the offer, apparently not seeming to grasp its wider implications, or the fact that he was offering land that did not belong to the US.
The report did not say if Israel was aware of the offer at the time.
Israel captured East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war. The Palestinians want both territories to be part of their future state, a position with strong Jordanian and international support.
The reported proposal came shortly after Trump formally proclaimed Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announced the plan to move the US embassy there from Tel Aviv.
Two years later, then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plans for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank, a proposal that was ultimately shelved.
The Washington Post report was drawn from the forthcoming book ‘The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,’ coauthored by New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, the White House correspondent for The New York Times.
New Trump is wealthy but didn’t know that Trump owned the West Bank.
Maybe Governor Hochul should give NYC to New Jersey?
ed note–your comment has obvious implicated factual merit, but you are missing the bigger point…
Trump ‘promising’ the WB to Abdullah was his way of saying that in the upcoming ‘Deal of the Century’ which would have solved much (most) of the problems in the ME by creating a Palestinian state, (before all of this was derailed by an Israeli bioweapon known as Covid and then the stolen 2020 election) that Jordan would receive the backing of the US for Jordanian control over the WB rather than allowing the Jews to continue on with their unstoppable and voracious devouring of Palestinian land.
The obvious importance of this was the fact that DJT was willing to knock Netanyahu and the rest of his Torah Terrorist nutcases flat on their fat asses over the issue of ‘Judea and Samaria’ in the interests of bringing some peace and quiet to the Middle East.
Did you really miss this point, or were you just being ‘cheeky’?