JTA: To Israel’s far right, Trump’s proposals for Gaza keep sounding ‘better and better’
The Israeli right loves Trump’s idea. They realize that the U.S. would take over for a while, spend hundreds of billions building it up after the Israeli devastation, and then the Israelis would come back in.
To Israel’s far right, Trump’s proposals for Gaza keep sounding ‘better and better’
The call to relocate Gaza Palestinians matches proposals laid out by Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two far-right ministers.
President Donald Trump cast his dramatic proposals for the future of Gaza as a boon to Palestinians. But it was the Israeli far right that received them with giddy appreciation.
“When I said this time and again during the war, that this was the solution to Gaza, they mocked me,” Itamar Ben-Gvir tweeted, referring to Trump’s pronouncement that Palestinians should leave Gaza as it is rebuilt into a global city controlled by the United States.
“Now it is clear: this is the only solution to the Gaza problem — this is the strategy for the ‘day after,’” Ben-Gvir added. “I call on the prime minister to announce the adoption of the plan as soon as possible and to immediately take practical steps to advance it.”
Ben-Gvir, as well as far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have repeatedly called for Israel to encourage Gazans to emigrate, and for Israel to build settlements in the enclave. Prior to Trump taking office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not prioritized either idea, and had rejected the idea of Israeli settlements in Gaza.
Ben-Gvir, formerly Israel’s national security minister, quit Netanyahu’s coalition last month to protest Israel’s current ceasefire deal with Hamas, which Trump demanded. He said on the radio on Wednesday that he would return to the coalition if Netanyahu carries out Trump’s vision.
Trump’s call for “all” Palestinians to leave Gaza, and for the United States to take control of it, exceeds even the dramatic proposals that Ben-Gvir and others on the far right have made. Ben-Gvir has floated “voluntary migration” for Gaza Palestinians, while Smotrich has said he believed half the enclave’s population of roughly 2 million could be “encouraged” to leave within two years.
Forced migration is illegal under international law, and a number of the Arab countries that Trump sees as destinations for Gaza Palestinians have flatly rejected his proposal.
Following Trump’s press conference, Smotrich tweeted a passage of gratitude from Psalms about pilgrims returning to the land of Israel, recited on Shabbat and holidays, along with a picture of Trump and Netanyahu smiling next to each other.
“Even better and even better,” Smotrich wrote, echoing the lyrics of a hit song that channels rabbinic teachings but is widely popular in Israel. “Thank you President Trump. Together, we will make the world great again 🇮🇱🇺🇸.”
The US should take over all of Israel, and turn it into one giant Christianity themed theme park. Deport the Palestinians ans Israelis to the most arid parts of Africa, and all the Jews and Arabs in the US along with the Black Hebrew Israelites to that same arid part of Africa. The only way there will ever be peace in the middle east is for Israel to be a theme park called Christoworld, and for no non-christians to be allowed to enter it. Gaza can be the port of entry to the themepark.
@ jeff johnson
That proposal should get through Congress even faster than the UN.
Ethnic cleansing of indigenous people – 1947 to 2027. Job done. But 80 more years added to 4000 of the “longest hatred”? Is it worth it?
@ Emma Smith
Some think it’s worth it.
Look at the anti-Palestine Echo Chamber on the Gatestone Site.
Trying to displace the Palestinians will cause Egypt to be overthrown. Turkey will take a harder line against zog. Jordan will not be friendly anymore. All these moves by the synagogue of Satan are creating a unified Islamic front against zog. Donnie should focus on domestic issues. Playing with zog will just get him assassinated. The fake jews will gladly sacrifice him to get another war against Iran.