U.S. Takeover of Gaza?
It’s the least we could do and would be a dream come true for the Israelis because the Palestinians would be removed, supposedly to Egypt and Jordan (who are opposed). And Hamas is opposed. If it happens, I bet Israel would have de facto control and eventually de jure.
Trump, Hosting Israel’s Leader, Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza
Where Things Stand
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Gaza’s future: President Trump proposed on Tuesday that the United States take over Gaza and that all Palestinians there — some two million people — should leave, describing a permanent relocation to one or more sites funded by “countries of interest with humanitarian hearts.” As he hosted Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for a joint news conference in the White House, Mr. Trump said that he has studied the conditions in Gaza and his idea to seize and develop it has gotten “tremendous” support from the “highest of leadership” as a viable plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Read more ›
President Trump declared on Tuesday that he would seek to permanently relocate the entire Palestinian population of Gaza, an explosive idea in a region that has already endured generations of war over disputes about homelands and forced migration.
Hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House, Mr. Trump said that all 2 million Palestinians from Gaza should be moved to countries like Egypt and Jordan because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s war with Hamas after the terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
While the president framed the matter as a humanitarian imperative, he effectively reopened a geopolitical Pandora’s box with far-reaching implications for the Middle East. Control over Gaza has been one of the major flash points of the Arab-Israeli conflict going back decades, and the idea of displacing its Palestinian residents recalls an era when Western great powers redrew the maps of the region and moved around populations without regard to local autonomy.
Hamas, which has ruled in Gaza for most of the past two decades and is re-establishing control there now, immediately rejected mass relocation on Tuesday, and Arab nations including Egypt and Jordan have rejected the idea of taking in a large influx of Palestinians, given the fraught history, burden and destabilizing potential. But Mr. Netanyahu, sitting at Mr. Trump’s side in the Oval Office, smiled with satisfaction as the president outlined his ideas.
“I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza,” Mr. Trump said. “I heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They live like hell. They live like they’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative.”
He suggested that nations in the region could finance the creation of a new homeland or homelands that would provide better living conditions. “It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return,” he said without offering any details of what that would entail.
Asked how many Palestinians he had in mind, he said, “all of them,” adding, “I would think that they would be thrilled.” Pressed repeatedly on whether he would force them to go even if they did not want to, Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think they’re going to tell me no.”
Hamas, at least, was quick to tell him no. Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas official, said that the president’s proposed relocation was “a recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region.”
“Our people in Gaza will not allow for these plans to come to pass,” he said in a statement distributed by Hamas. “What is needed is the end of the occupation and the aggress
This would set a precedent by which all muds and mongrels could be removed from White countries with only racially pure Whites remaining. I’m in.
We don’t need a precedent to take back our homeland. Trump is AIPAC’s puppet as is USA. AIPAC controls USA & the foolish Americans are watching sports. We need to focus on our survival, future.
How about Americans and Palestinians actually rebuilding Gaza together, destroying the rocket sites and tunnels, starting with hospitals and patients, without either Hamas interference or mass ethnic expulsions, but with global support? How would that endanger Jewish or Arab lives inside Israel or anywhere else? Matthew 5.9.