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Trump floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza
More on Trump’s comments on board Air Force One.
Earlier, Reuters reported that the US president had said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians from Gaza. Now, the Associated Press news agency is reporting that Trump wants Arab nations to take enough of the enclave’s population to “just clean out” the war-torn area.
“I’d like Egypt to take people,” he said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.’”
He said such a mass movement of Palestinians “could be temporary or long term”, and added that the area of the world that encompasses Gaza has “had many, many conflicts” over centuries.
“Something has to happen,” Trump said. “But it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there.
“So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
Ben-Gvir hails Trump’s Gaza ‘clean-out’ idea
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s former national security minister who has a history of making outrage-inciting comments and provoking Palestinians, has welcomed Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” Gaza.
“Congratulations to US President Trump on the initiative to transfer residents from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt,” said Ben-Gvir, who resigned from his role earlier this month, in protest of the ceasefire deal in Gaza.
“One of our demands from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to encourage voluntary immigration, and when the president of the world’s largest power, Trump, himself raises the idea, it would be wise for the Israeli government to implement it – encourage immigration now!”
Palestinians have long rejected suggestions that they should leave their ancestral homes and land, even in the face of relentless attacks, settler encroachment and economic dispossession.
Voluntary migration wtf.
Israel seeks to ‘ethnically cleanse as much of Gaza as possible
Abdullah Al-Arian, a Middle East specialist at Georgetown University in Qatar, says President Trump’s comments asking Egypt and Jordan to accept 1.5 million war-displaced Palestinians from Gaza is a credible threat and not just an off-the-cuff remark.
“There’s reason to take it seriously in part because we’ve seen this specific demand being made over the last year. This is something many Israeli officials indicated very early on in the course of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza is that they sought to ethnically cleanse as much of that territory as possible,” al-Arian told Al Jazeera.
“That plan has failed for multiple reasons with Arab leaders who were approached at that time simply declining to take on additional Palestinian refugee populations.”
The Palestinians themselves were also not interested in another “mass ethnic cleansing”, he added.
“They know all too well what it means to leave their home and what the status of Palestinian refugees has looked like for the past 70 years.”
Donald Trump’s plan to clear out Gaza ‘not a solution’
Alon Liel, a former director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, expressed concern over US President Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan should take in 1.5 million Palestinians from Gaza.
“Comments from the president are very surprising. I think he didn’t study the situation enough, and such comments are running against the mood here in the Middle East – in Egypt, in Jordan, and even in Israel. So I think he should check himself. I don’t think this is a solution,” Liel told Al Jazeera.
“In the past, he’s said things that nobody thought he’d carry out and he did. I hope this time he’ll check with the leadership of the region and withdraw from these ideas. These ideas can further complicate not only our conflict with the Palestinians, but the whole situation in the region.
“So I hope it’s just an initial feeling of his and once he talks to the CIA and State Department he’ll withdraw.”
Not surprising at all after his previous statements to turn Gaza into Dubai.
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