At least the Egyptians and Jordanians appear to have told Trump to fuck off with his resettlement plans:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/trump-gaza-strip-jordan-egypt/index.html Comradely, John On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 13:48 Charles Keener via groups.io, <ckeener20005= [email protected]> wrote: > BREAKING: Trump Mulling ‘Long Term’ Mass Displacement of Palestinians From > Gaza After Approving 2,000-Pound Bombs for Israel > <https://decensorednews.substack.com/p/trump-mass-displacement-palestinians-gaza-egypt-jordan-2000-lb-bombs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1854310&post_id=155741909&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=68nr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email> > > 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 > <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-makes-2000-pound-bombs-available-israel-undoing-bidens-pause-2025-01-25/> > 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 > <https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-israel-bomb-gaza-hamas-war-023b36984c6116c128b5e47f117bba2a> > : > > *“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 > <https://substack.com/@decensorednews/note/c-87497790> 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 > <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev?CMP=share_btn_url> > 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 > <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev?CMP=share_btn_url> > 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 > <https://decensored.news/daniella-weiss-gaza-hell-99-percent-want-to-die/> 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 > <https://decensored.news/daniella-weiss-gaza-hell-99-percent-want-to-die/>” > 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 > <https://x.com/decensorednews/status/1771706647628460125> 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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