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President Donald Trump has outlined an extraordinary new plan for Gaza in which the United States will take over the strip and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” while the Palestinian population is moved to neighbouring countries. The Mail has more.

It is the latest evolution in his plan for rebuilding a territory devastated by Israeli bombardment.

His words will sow fear in the Palestinian population but Trump insisted it was time for a new way of thinking and promised to build “the Riviera of the Middle East.” “The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” he said at a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site… level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.”

Trump, a property developer who sees the world in terms of deals, has long talked up Gaza’s coastal location and pleasant climate as a perfect holiday vacation.

In his vision, US reconstruction would create thousands of jobs and spare Palestinians the pain and expense of rebuilding once again.

When a reporter asked if that might involve military force, Trump answered: “If it’s necessary.”

And when asked who would live there, he answered: “I envision world people living there. The world’s people.

“I think you’ll make that into an international, unbelievable place.”

He claimed his plans were based on humanitarian ideals and backing at the highest levels.

Yet the proposal to move out Gaza’s Palestinian two-million population will be seen as a call for ‘ethnic cleansing’ by opponents.

Control of the territory has been one of the key flashpoints in the Arab-Israeli conflict, triggering waves of violence and spreading instability through the region for decades.

At the moment, Hamas controls the territory and holds hostages, while a shaky ceasefire endures.

Netanyahu, who faces the threat of international prosecution and weakening support at home, could not help but beam as the President outlined his latest proposal. He praised Trump for his radical thinking.

And he said it was worth paying attention to Trump’s latest idea for a “different future” for a patch of land riven by terrorism.

“You see things others refuse to see,” he said. “You say things others refuse to say.

“And after the jaws drop people scratch their heads and they say, you know, he’s right.”

Worth reading in full.

Jake Wallis Simons says that Trump’s plan to ‘Make Gaza Great Again’ could really work:

Trump spoke of creating a “Riviera of the Middle East” and the tragedy of this is that the Palestinians could have done that for themselves. Gaza lies just 40 miles from Tel Aviv, the most liberal, innovative and wealthiest city in the region. If its citizens had not elected Hamas in 2006, and had chosen instead a path to peace, the Strip would be thriving today, with its extensive beaches and easy access to Israeli technology and support. But they selected the path of jihad and this is where it has left them. Those of the Biden-Obama-Clinton school may insist on repeating the same formula, perhaps with some minor tweaks; but as I said, their children do not have to live with the consequences. …

At long last, the Middle East has been presented with a bold plan and a bold vision that speaks to the needs of ordinary people rather than the corrupt ideologues who so shamefully lead them and their liberal cheerleaders in the democracies.

Via The Daily Sceptic

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Trump Wants To Take Over Gaza, Announces 500,000 Dead – Moon of Alabama

by Moon of Alabama

The king of Israel (with a red alpha tie) visited his vassal state in America where real-estate developer Donald Trump (blue beta tie) pushed the chair for his leader and offered him to cleanse the Palestinian population from all land the Zionists desire to take.

Via AP:

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
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The provocative comments came as talks are ramping up this week with the promise of surging humanitarian aid and reconstruction supplies to help the people of Gaza recover after more than 15 months of devastating conflict. Now Trump wants to push roughly 1.8 million people to leave the land they have called home and claim it for the U.S., perhaps with American troops.“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said at an evening news conference with Netanyahu by his side.

The internationally acknowledged Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics’ count of the population of Gaza in 2023 was 2,226,544. Trump wants to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and gives their number as 1.7 or 1.8 million:

Reporter: How many people are you thinking need to leave Gaza?
Trump: “All of them. Probably a million seven, maybe a million eight. They’ll be settled in areas where they can live a beautiful life.” (video)

This is an acknowledgement, by the president of the United States, that the genocidal Zionists have murdered up to 500,000 people in Gaza.

Despite that toll few in Gaza would move voluntarily:

Gazan residents generally want to stay on their land.Trump did not specify where the new land for Gazans might be found, although he made his comments after repeating his desire for Egypt and Jordan to take in Gaza’s residents. Nor did he appear to grapple with the many Gazan residents who would not want to depart their home territory, nor with the practicalities of potentially forcing them to leave it.

“I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East,” Trump said.

Asked if U.S. troops would be deployed to take over Gaza, Trump said that “we’ll do what’s necessary. … We’ll take it over and develop it.”

Netanyahu said that he was open to the idea.

The plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is not new at all:

Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi – 23:37 UTC · Feb 4, 2025This has been Israel’s dream for decades

Israel’s NSC Director Eiland in a cable from 2004 leaked by Wikileaks said Gaza ‘is a huge concentration camp’ and that Israel’s solution would be to expel the Palestinians of Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai Desert

The plan has bi-partisan U.S. support:

Harry Sisson @harryjsisson – 1:44 UTC · Oct 11, 2023Amazing: President Biden is working on a plan with other countries that would allow civilians to safely leave Gaza and cross the border into Egypt. This is great news. President Biden is making sure that innocent people don’t die due to the actions of Hamas. That’s leadership.

It is a real estate developer’s dream:

Robin Monotti @robinmonotti – 23:47 UTC · May 8, 2024GAZA 2035: A NEW SMART 15 MINUTE CITY BUILT ON THE MASS GRAVES OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN: New plans in Israeli media reveal what Israel want to do with Gaza post genocide and land theft. The dystopian vision for the Gaza Strip is being currently approved by the Netanyahu government. Link below.

The long planned for and now announced final ethnic cleansing of Gaza would be in breach of a long list of international laws and conventions.

There is no agreement on where the Palestinian people would move to. Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and other countries in the region have rejected the resettlement of any Palestinians to their land. The Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia issued a length statement against it at 4:00 am local time(!):

The Foreign Ministry affirms that Saudi Arabia’s position on the establishment of a Palestinian state is firm and unwavering. HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister clearly and unequivocally reaffirmed this stance.

The leaders of those countries know that this would not be the end of the story:

These displacement plans do not end with Gaza. The West Bank, where Israel is escalating military operations, is considered by many right-wing extremists in Israel to be the real prize, and Jordan the preferred destination for Palestinians living there.

Still Trump may think he can win from this. As M.K. Bhadrakumar analyses:

Trump used the expression “take over” of Gaza Strip. He didn’t elaborate. Trump and Witkoff are two master-builders and they visualise the seamless potential of killing many birds with a single shot —

first and foremost, strengthening Israel’s security through the ethnic cleansing and resettlement in Gaza;

two, restoration of Israel’s regional dominance in the region in a medium and long term perspective;

three, a solution to the intractable Palestinian problem;

four, rendering obsolete the various outlandish ideas like “two-state solution”;

five, burial of the very notion of a Palestinian state;

six, Israel’s regional integration through Abraham Accords;

and, above all, massive business spin-off for American companies for decades to come out of the development of the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

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Prima facie, Netanyahu lured Trump into a trap by enticing him with a seductive scenario of massive lucrative business in Gaza’s reconstruction. Trump’s imagination is running riot, completely disconnected from ground realities. Such naïveté is fraught with real danger of blowing up on his face sooner rather than later and turn into an albatross for his presidency. This has all the making of a quagmire for the Trump administration.