Egypt, Jordan, and the US aid game | Donald Trump News

The comments of US President Donald Trump may purify the Palestinians ethnically from Gaza and forcing them to enter Egypt and Jordan may lead to the reinterpreted of radical regional alliances.
Trump repeated his intentions after meeting with King Abdullah II on Tuesday. He previously indicated that he would use US aid to both countries as a financial lever to try to force them to face his idea.
It seemed that the King of Jordan Abdullah II was trying to weaken Trump through his temptation and a pledge to accept 2000 sick children from Gaza to Jordan.
“I finally see a person who can take us through the finish line to bring stability, peace and prosperity for all of us in the region,” said the King of Hashemititi Trump. Trump described the line “music to my ear”.
Cairo and Amman have strongly rejected Trump’s comments on many occasions, and Egypt will host an Arab summit in emergency situations on February 27 to form an Arab -led plan to confront Trump on a large scale.

Billions of help
Both Egypt and Jordan relied heavily on US foreign aid for decades.
Egypt has received more than $ 87 billion in US foreign aid since 1946, despite the significant increase in military and economic assistance after Egypt signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1979.
The current $ 1.4 billion began in the annual military aid provided by the United States in 1979 after signing the Camp David agreements between Egypt and Israel.
Today, Egypt is one of the highest beneficiaries of US foreign aid in the Middle East after Israel.
US foreign aid also plays an important role in Jordan.
Israel and Jordan signed the Wadi Araba treaty in 1994, as it established diplomatic, tourism and commercial relations between the two countries that laid the basis for Jordan to obtain billions of dollars in the United States as debt aid.
The United States now gives Jordan $ 1.72 billion annually in bilateral external assistance.
Jordan consists of discounts of $ 770 million as economic aid from the United States Agency for International Development, which helped fund some Jordanian ministries, such as education, public works, and water security support in the country.
This funding is a major part of the work of Egypt and Jordan’s economies, but it also helps the US regional agenda.
Jordan “has worked long ago as a pro -Western partner and continues to play a stable role, which strengthens Israel from Iran and its supplies, hosting refugees, combating terrorism and extremism and is a strong and reliable ally of Western powers”, Dima Tukan, and a non -resident researcher at the Middle East Institute, told he told The island.

Egypt provides US facilities in the region, “including the movement of American military assets throughout the region through the preferential traffic of the Suez Canal and the light of the lands of Egypt,” according to an article sponsored by the Egyptian government in foreign policy.
All US military aid funds Egypt’s purchase of arms systems from US defense contractors, according to the Congress report, which makes Egypt’s military aid an indirect form of support for US defense contractors.
“As a major lever for soft energy, aid allows the United States a big margin for the practice of influence, to manage its image and develop its common attention,” said Tokan.
A large budget hole
The possibility of Trump to be for his plans to purify the Palestinians ethnically from Gaza raises the concerns of stability in Egypt, according to analysts.
For Jordan, these fears are “ExistentialismAnalysts said. Many Jordanian population of Palestinian origin, and Erdran may take a million people will strongly affect the population composition and questions of the national identity of many in the country.
To avoid forcing it to this, Egypt and Jordan may start searching elsewhere for financing, such as their allies in the Gulf or even American competitors of global influence – such as Russia and China.
“If the United States insists on withdrawing aid, then other groups and countries will definitely want to fill this gap,” Tukan told Al -Jazeera.

China’s influence in Egypt has grown in the past decade, and in 2025, the “year of the Egyptian -Chinese partnership” was called by the two countries.
The Gulf Cooperation Council states-who oppose the proposal to purify Trump’s ethnic cleansing and who have close relations with King Abdullah II and the President of Egypt Abdel Sabba El-Sisi-that filling the gaps in financing is in their interest.
But even if this is the case, it is unlikely that a billion dollar hole in their treasures will be covered completely, and it may compel them to “implement very unpopular austerity measures that lead to expected protests”, Jeffrey Hughes, author of the book, Islam kinship and marriage policy in Jordan: Affection and mercy, tell the island.
“It will also clash directly with the security apparatus, all more difficult since many assistance through the army and the police now.”

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2025-02-12 16:49:00