The U.S. should take possession of the Gaza Strip according to Trump
The U.S. is not going to leave Gaza: Netanyahu’s frustrations with Trump’s plan for the next phase of the ceasefire agreement
Trump presented no specifics about how the U.S. would execute his proposals. The resistance they have received from the Arab and Palestinian leaders has made it difficult to plan for a future state with Israel.
Incollective Palestinian memory is hard to exaggerate the traumatic resonance of displacement. This history helps explain the Palestinian determination to remain in the newly devastated territory and the widespread outcry to this relocation proposal and its long-term radicalizing potential.
Hamas has also rejected the idea, as it prepares this week to negotiate with Israel on the next phase of their tenuous ceasefire agreement in Gaza. After a 15-month war that left Gaza a wasteland, the two sides have been exchanging hostages and prisoners, but with Trump’s statements, there is more uncertainty to the future of the truce.
Netanyahu looked at Trump and he said that they would own it and be responsible for the dismantling of the bombs. “Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out to create an economic development.
“Trump must be taken with a grain of salt,” Israeli journalist Amir Ettinger wrote Wednesday in the right-leaning Israel Hayom newspaper. “Senior figures in Israel do not rule out that a similar scenario could occur regarding the Gaza migration issue. The plan is to return hostages, expel Hamas leaders, and normalise with Saudi Arabia without strings attached, in exchange for promises regarding a Palestinian state.
Trump did not share details how he anticipated the U.S. would take control of the strip, but during the press conference, also didn’t rule out sending U.S. troops to support the reconstruction.
When the time came for Netanyahu to speak, he smiled and praised the work done by Trump. And, regarding Gaza, Netanyahu said Trump has an idea that is worth paying attention to.
The visit comes as negotiations over Phase 2 of the truce are taking place. The focus was on the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
The administration is concentrating on completing Phase 1 and returning the hostages, including the dead, according to Trump officials. They say Phase 2 would end the war with Hamas and return all remaining Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza.
It’s physically impossible to rebuild Gaza in five years because of the ceasefire deal, according to Trump’s envoy. A 10- to 15-year timeline would be more likely, he said, because of the damage to Gaza during the war.
“You have to learn from the past.” You cannot allow history to keep repeating itself. “We have an amazing chance to do something that could be phenomenal,” Donald Trump said.
On Tuesday, Trump signed two executive orders. One puts “maximum” pressure on Iran. Trump was torn about signing it.
I’m signing this and I’m not happy about it. “I don’t have much choice because we have to be strong and firm and I hope we don’t have to use it,” Trump said.
“To me, it’s very simple. “Iran can not have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. He said the U.S. has the right to block the sale of Iranian oil to other countries.
Trump’s ‘takeover’ of Gaza and the relocation of its people: Israelis and Israelis: “I’m all you’re trying to tell them what you want to do,” Israel, and Palestinians
The other order pulled the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council and cut off aid to the United Nations Relief Works Agency, which is the main group providing aid to Palestinians.
TEL AVIV, Israel — President Trump floated two bombshell ideas Tuesday about Gaza that has Palestinians, Israelis, and the wider Middle East scrambling.
The second was that Gaza’s entire population would move to other countries. “We should go to other countries that are interested in humanitarian issues and that want to do things that will end the death and destruction in Gaza, and give the 1.8 million Palestinians living there some hope for a better future, and that is bad luck” he said.
“On the day that I will see American soldiers coming in great numbers to Gaza, I will then make up my mind how serious it is,” former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert told NPR. “Every party involved except for Israel is completely against it.”
“It is utterly unrealistic, and it reflects a total lack of understanding of the historical process of where these Palestinians come from, what is their collective identity,” former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami told NPR. It’s somebody from the outer space who tried to impose a solution which was detached from a context.
Israeli observers have suggested that Trump could be using a tactic called “putting in a goat”, in which he puts down a demand for the purpose of removing it later and appears to have granted a concession.
“This man is an actor in a global theater, and his tactics are playing big, drawing the world’s attention to what he says, getting his competitors out of balance, and eventually something will happen that goes his way,” Ben-Ami said. “Maybe this is a tactical sort of move that tries to say a big thing in order to eventually get a more modest solution.”
Source: Trump says the U.S. will ‘take over’ Gaza and relocate its people. What does it mean?
What Israel Will Do If Israel ‘Take Over’ Gaza And Relocate Its People: Israeli Response to Donald Trump’s “Pastor Oil on the Fire”
Whether or not it is a viable vision, the once-fringe Israeli idea of “transfer” — expelling or encouraging the emigration of Palestinians to other countries so Israel can take over their land — has quickly moved further into the Israeli mainstream with Trump’s comments in recent weeks about relocating Gazans.
In a poll published Monday, about seven out of ten Israelis supported the idea, with most Jewish Israelis polled calling it a “practical plan that should be pursued.” Most Arab citizens of Israel were against the idea in a survey conducted by the Jewish People Policy Institute.
Hamas said it would “pour oil on the fire” if Donald Trump did not immediately apologize for his irresponsible statements.
The Palestinian leadership in the occupied West Bank — which hopes to take part in ruling postwar Gaza — also rejected the proposal. “We will not allow the rights of our people, for which we have struggled for decades and made great sacrifices to achieve, to be infringed upon,” said Palestinian Authority President President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Foreign Ministry in Saudi Arabia issued a statement about their stance on establishing a Palestinian state and rejecting any attempt to take the land of the Palestinians.
Some have returned to Gaza’s south, where humanitarian aid and services are more plentiful. Many people are in tents or in the rubble of homes.
“My home is gone, my life is gone, my future is gone,” he says. I will leave my homeland and country if I travel and find a country that embraces me, it will provide me with safety and a good life.
Source: Trump says the U.S. will ‘take over’ Gaza and relocate its people. What does it mean?
Nehad Ghonaim: a doctor in the enclave of Aleppo, Syria, and a son in Tel Aviv
Nehad Ghonaim, a surgeon at Kamal Adwan hospital, says he refused to leave the enclave’s north during Israel’s heavy bombardment, and would also refuse Trump’s proposal.
“This is where I call home, and I am not going to leave even if Trump provides me with better things in another place,” says Ghonaim, who lost his family in the war. His children were also killed, and are buried under rubble.
A number of people contributed to the report, including Anas Baba in Gaza City, Nuha Musleh in the West Bank and Itay Stern in Tel Aviv.