RFK Jr. Calls Out King Abdullah: 'They've Cut Us Off'

[Eugene]

Source: Politico

RFK Jr. Calls Out King Abdullah: ‘They’ve Cut Us Off’

By Jonathan Martin
05/05/2025 05:55 AM EDT

It’s a rare moment today in American politics that Donald Trump’s West Wing, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi are on the same side of an issue. And it’s rarer still that each of these parties is irritated at the same person.

Yet as Jordan’s King Abdullah II returns to Washington on Monday, top Trump aides, Kennedy, and Pelosi are venting their frustration with one of the Middle East’s longest-serving monarchs.

At issue: the commitment Abdullah made in February sitting by Trump’s side in the Oval Office to accept 2,000 children from Gaza with cancer and other grave illnesses.

Abdullah, say multiple high-ranking officials in both parties, is slow-walking his pledge, and Jordan has only accepted a fraction of sick children because of fears Israel will not let them and their families return to Gaza after treatment.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/05/jordan-gaza-rfk-jr-king-abdullah-00326203

[Marcuse]

1. Still mad about Black September?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Abdullah is no pawn.

[Submariner]

3. Nobody cut you off Bobby

You're nobody to begin with, other than your father's name that you stain day in, and day out.

Maga Sen. Cassidy must be a desperate coon ass swamp quack who quit his profession because he hurt people. How else does he explain appointing such an unqualified incompetent as Junior?

[CincyDem]

4. Why would Abdullah, in a country of 11.5million, be worried about 2,000 families more. n/t

[AloeVera]

6. That's not the issue obviously.

He doesn't want to be a part of Israel's ethnic cleansing operation.

He knows Israel would never let these children back to their homeland. No right of return. Not like there is no precedent for that.

[AloeVera]

5. Israel should take on these children.

Or the U.S.

It was their military or their bombs that destroyed Gaza's hospitals or harmed these kids.

Pelosi should get right on that.

[Beastly Boy]

7. How does this square with your Post #6?

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Is Israel damned if they do, or are they damned if they don't?

Or both?