BREAKING: Trump Mulling ‘Long Term’ Mass Displacement of Palestinians From Gaza After Approving 2,000-Pound Bombs for Israel
He also lifted sanctions on violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank, as his son-in-law doubles his stake in a firm that reportedly “stands to gain from expanding Israeli settlements” Having just instructed the Pentagon to release the Biden administration’s hold on the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, U.S. President Donald Trump is now openly talking about facilitating a mass displacement of Palestinians out of Gaza, which he says could be “long term”. During a “20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday,” the Associated Press quotes Trump as saying: “It’s literally a demolition site right now... So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location...” “I’d like Egypt to take people... 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.’...” “I’d love for [Jordan] to take on more...” “It could be temporary or long term...” Asked days earlier whether he thought he could maintain the so-called “ceasefire” through all three phases, Trump replied that he’s “not confident,“ then immediately pivoted to talking about how Gaza is “like a massive demolition site” that must “be rebuilt in a different way.” “You know, Gaza’s interesting. It's a phenomenal location,” he said. “On the sea, the best weather.... some beautiful things could be done with it… it’s very interesting… Some fantastic things could be done with Gaza." ‘Waterfront Property’ Trump’s comments echo remarks made by his son-in-law and former senior advisor Jared Kushner during an interview at Harvard University last February, where Kushner discussed how “very valuable” Gaza’s “waterfront property” could be and suggested that Israel should “move the [Palestinian] people out” while it “cleans up” the strip. The Guardian reported at the time that this could be “a hint of the kind of Middle East policy that could be pursued in the event that Trump returns to the White House.” >From the same March 19, 2024 article: “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner told his interviewer (...) Kushner also lamented “all the money” that had gone into the territory’s tunnel network and munitions instead of education and innovation. “It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner said. “But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterward.” (…) Kushner also said he thinks Israel should move civilians from Gaza to the Negev desert in southern Israel. He said that if he were in charge of Israel his number one priority would be getting civilians out of the southern city of Rafah, and that “with diplomacy” it could be possible to get them into Egypt. “But in addition to that, I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there,” he said. “I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job.” He reiterated the point a little later, saying: “I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.” (…) Asked by [the interviewer] about fears on the part of Arabs in the region that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, would not allow Palestinians who flee Gaza to return, Kushner paused and then said: “Maybe.” He went on to say: “I am not sure there is much left of Gaza at this point. If you think about even the construct, Gaza was not really a historical precedent [sic]. It was the result of a war. You had tribes in different places and then Gaza became a thing. Egypt used to run it and then over time different governments came in.” Responding to a question about whether the Palestinians should have their own state, Kushner described the proposal as “a super bad idea” that “would essentially be rewarding an act of terror”. Ethnic Cleansing As recently noted by Decensored News, this kind of mass displacement of Palestinians out of Gaza is not a novel idea. It’s been widely discussed at all levels of Israeli society, including among settler leaders such as Daniella Weiss, who has flatly stated that “Arabs will not stay” in Gaza and will be replaced by “Jews.” Her organization, Nachala — which she says gets funding and support from very “prominent” and “wealthy Jews” in the US — is just one of a number of groups in Israel that have been using October 7 as a pretext to push for Israeli settlements in Gaza. “No Arab — I'm speaking about more than 2 million Arabs — they will not stay there,” she told CNN last year. “We, Jews, will be in Gaza.” “A recent promotional video even boasts that Gaza will become the next Riviera,” CNN’s Clarissa Ward noted in the same segement. MUCH MORE AT THE LINK -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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