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Trump's dropped the fantastical talk of 'buying' Gaza, and replaced it with a despot's vow to "take" it [View all]
...Trump just pushed past any ambiguity today and just blurted out in front of Jordan's king that he intends to just 'take" Gaza from the over two million people who live there.
"We're going to take it. We're going to hold it. We're going to cherish it," Trump told reporters as he met Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House .
Trump claimed that "a lot of jobs" would be created across the region if a US takeover of the devastated territory were to happen.
"I think it could be a diamond," he said, adding that he now believes the US is "above" having to threaten other countries to participate.
Trump claimed that "a lot of jobs" would be created across the region if a US takeover of the devastated territory were to happen.
"I think it could be a diamond," he said, adding that he now believes the US is "above" having to threaten other countries to participate.
He's dropped the fantastical talk of 'buying' the land to an autocratic arrogance which would have Americans participating in nothing less than ethnic cleansing of the people there. Nothing says leader of the free world like a little ethnic cleansing.
And it's not going to be something he has enough cooperation to achieve from the countries he's expecting to receive the people he intends to rout from their present home.
Egypt, Jordan and other American allies in the Middle East have already rejected the idea of relocating more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza elsewhere in the region. Following Trump’s remarks, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement stressing the need for rebuilding “without moving the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.”
Saudi Arabia, an important American ally, weighed in quickly on Trump’s expanded idea to take over the Gaza Strip in a sharply worded statement, noting that its long call for an independent Palestinian state was a “firm, steadfast and unwavering position.”
“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia also stresses what it had previously announced regarding its absolute rejection of infringement on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, whether through Israeli settlement policies, annexation of Palestinian lands or efforts to displace the Palestinian people from their land,” the statement said.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-trump-netanyahu-db2c407baf803291a4acf6edfd708c48
Saudi Arabia, an important American ally, weighed in quickly on Trump’s expanded idea to take over the Gaza Strip in a sharply worded statement, noting that its long call for an independent Palestinian state was a “firm, steadfast and unwavering position.”
“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia also stresses what it had previously announced regarding its absolute rejection of infringement on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, whether through Israeli settlement policies, annexation of Palestinian lands or efforts to displace the Palestinian people from their land,” the statement said.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-trump-netanyahu-db2c407baf803291a4acf6edfd708c48
No one in the region is ready or even willing to pay for the resettlement of Palestinians, even, as Trump ignorantly suggested, if they wanted to leave. Neither are we.
The ONLY way Trump is going to create movement out of Gaza is by force, U.S. military troops on the ground after a withering U.S. military bombing campaign. That will widen war against the U.S. well beyond Gaza's borders, and create American 'ownership' of not only the deliberately inflamed Gaza strip, but of the entire conflict in the region, isolated on the opposing side.
Trump's insane, and he'll get as many of our troops killed in the Middle East as he can to make this stupid, unsustainable, megalomanical brag of his look real.
Welcome to U.S. at war in the Middle East slaughterhouse, again. Or... there's the 25th Amendment.
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