Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Trump Proposes U.S. Take Over Gaza, Forcibly Remove All Palestinians

[Uncle Joe]

President Donald Trump met at the White House Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where Trump again suggested ethnically cleansing Gaza of its Palestinian population. Trump has already mused about moving Gaza's population to Jordan and Egypt, which those countries have flatly rejected, but on Tuesday he went even further and said the United States should "own" Gaza and develop it into a seaside tourist destination. "Nothing has been more destabilizing for the region over the last eight decades than the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel, and nobody at any level is going to sign up for a continuation of that," says Palestinian American analyst Yousef Munayyer, who calls Trump's plan "ethically and morally repugnant." We also speak with former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, who says Israeli society is currently "giddy with excitement" over Trump's presidency. But he adds that "perhaps Israel's greatest Achilles' heel is if it actually falls for the idea that America is all-powerful."

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[D. Spaulding]

1. This foolish idea is a distraction

Trump is flooding the zone with this and other nonsense to try and keep the focus off of what Elon is doing.

[Uncle Joe]

3. He's echoing what Jared Kushner has already publicly stated

I think their short term interest is to take over Gaza, the long term plan for when global warming climate change hits the fan around the world is turn Greenland into "Noah's Ark."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127180572

[ihaveaquestion]

2. He said "We WILL" take over Gaza, not "We might" or "We think".

I take this to mean Netan-Yahoo and he already decided on US troops moving into Gaza as an occupying force.

Keep your kids out of the military for now. They will be cannon fodder under this criminal regime.

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. Why does "Democracy Now!" care? Why now? They spent an inordinate amount of time shitting on Democrats *

* and feeding the flames of resentment and distrust toward Democrats. They may as well have just said "Vote for Trump" when their vote-suppression machine was determined to depress and suppress voter turnout for Harris. Their anti-Democrat and anti-Democratic party rhetoric and propaganda played a large part in why we're here today. They spent more time attacking Democrats than Trump or the GOP. In doing so, they normalized the insanity of the GOP, they minimized and made the risks acceptable... while simultaneously amplifying and exaggerating the perceived flaws of Democrats.

They boast being "independent"... but that does not mean that they are impartial or ethical. Their anti-Democratic party bias clearly shows in everything they do. It's fair to say that no party and no candidate will ever be "perfect", but in the end, in national elections, the Democratic party and Democratic candidates are ALWAYS BETTER than the Republican alternative.

[Basso8vb]

5. Where did all the protestors go?

Curious....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. MaddowBlog-New details make Trump's radical Gaza plan look worse, not better

After having learned nothing after his first failed term, the president still appears wholly incapable of avoiding shambolic chaos of his own making.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lhjax7bnhs2r

After having learned nothing after his first failed term, Trump still appears wholly incapable of avoiding shambolic chaos of his own making.

Take his Gaza "plan," for example.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-details-make-trumps-radical-gaza-plan-look-worse-not-better-rcna190962

Following a series of foreign policy blunders in 2019, Anne Applebaum wrote a piece for The Washington Post with a memorable summary of how Donald Trump approaches international challenges. “There is no plan; there is only whim and instinct,” she explained. “There is no international orientation either, just a series of hasty unplanned, unexamined decisions, followed by Twitter tantrums.”

Nearly six years later, the assessment continues to ring true. Take the president’s plan — I’m using the word loosely — to acquire the Gaza Strip......

As for how, exactly, the president arrived at this idea, The New York Times reported that Trump “shocked even senior members of his own White House” on Tuesday afternoon:

[P]rivately, Mr. Trump had been talking about U.S. ownership of the enclave for weeks. And his thinking had accelerated, according to two administration officials, after his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, returned from Gaza last week and described the horrific conditions there.

While his announcement looked formal and thought-out — he read the plan from a sheet of paper — his administration had not done even the most basic planning to examine the feasibility of the idea, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

In a normal, functioning U.S. administration, such a monumental decision would go through months of intense scrutiny, led by experienced national security and diplomatic officials. There would be working groups. And negotiations. And detailed analyses on costs and consequences......

The day after the rollout of the plan, administration officials couldn’t answer the questions because there were no such answers. All they had were some poorly thought-out rhetoric that their boss blurted out, to the consternation of much of the planet.

After a day of confusion at the White House, Trump apparently thought he could help clear things up with a 107-word missive published to his social media platform. In it, the Republican said Gaza “would be turned over to the United States,” and Palestinians would be “resettled” in some other countries that he didn’t identify.

He went on to say that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, is a Palestinian — a label Trump has long used as a slur — before concluding that Trump doesn’t believe U.S. troops will be needed as part of this endeavor because ... well, he never actually got around to saying why not.

All of which is to say, Trump created an avoidable international incident on Tuesday, only to make matters worse soon after.