Arab countries flatly reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal
Arab countries flatly reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal
The president called for the U.S. to take “ownership” in redeveloping the war-torn territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Summary
Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza and resettle its Palestinian population was widely condemned by allies and adversaries alike.
Arab nations, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, firmly rejected the plan, reaffirming support for Palestinian sovereignty. U.S. allies like Australia and New Zealand reiterated their backing of a two-state solution.
Critics, including Palestinian leaders and Hamas, denounced the move as illegal and destabilizing.
U.S. lawmakers also opposed it, with some calling it “dangerous” and “ethnic cleansing.”
“ethnic cleansing"
That is the correct phrase here. Start there and keep going.
There's no such thing as ethnic cleansing. It's just a weasel word for genocide. It's all it ever has been. When "ethnic cleansing" was going on in the Balkans in the 90s, it was just a genocide that nobody was intervening to stop. Same for Myanmar in the mid 2010s And for Karabakh in 2020.
Agreed. I am tired of this equivocating bullshit. This is genocide.
Well, but there is a pretty significant difference. For example, when the Nazis were planning to send all the German Jews to Madagascar, they were attempting an ethnic cleansing, meaning 'just' their removal - They didn't care when Jews died, but it wasn't their actual plan to slaughter them all. However, when the Madagascar Plan didn't seem possible anymore, they switched to genocide in stead, meaning their extermination.
There is a incredibly huge difference between these two things. And please don't get me wrong, they are both absolutely, unequivocally horrific. Unacceptable, period. But still this difference is important, especially for the victims. In hindsight, I'm sure many people would have wished the Nazis had been successful in their ethnic cleansing. Many more people would have survived.
What Israel has been doing is not ethnic cleansing. They've been systematically killing people for no other reason than "because we want to and we can." I'd call that a genocide. What Trump is describing, however, is ethnic cleansing.
And just to reiterate, I'm not saying it's not bad. It's sickeningly bad. But quite different.
I mean a lot of terminology you can argue about but forcefully removing an certain ethnic group from their home region so another group can take over, that's pretty much the textbook definition.
Arab Countries should immediately backtrack and agree to the proposal with one change.
All Palestinians should be relocated immediately to the county of Palm Beach, Florida at the expense of the United States.
Let Donald Trump welcome a few new neighbors.
From trump
[...]Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent. [...]
Yeah, it didn't take a rocket scientist to know he either was lying or didn't talk to that many people other than his rich oligarchy
Some of Israel’s government would support that
He'll find somewhere to send the surviving Gazans. One of his strongman allies will happily put them in work camps.
And if he doesn't, I'm guessing he has an idea for a Final Solution.
The trump administration has already started establishing a new slave trade system with El Salvador, so it’s entirely plausible that they would consider enslaving the Palestinians also. I cannot fucking believe the speed with which we are dropping into dystopia.
Surprised this got announced while there are still hostages to release tbh..
It's been pretty clear for a while that Bibi doesn't give a shit about the hostages. They've already served their purpose for him
If that were true then why agree a ceasefire at all? If hostages were disposable then it would serve his purposes better to sabotage negotiations, blame Hamas, and continue destroying Rafah.
As it stands there appears to be at least some elements in Israel that count retrieving the hostages to be more important.
Surprised this got announced
So is everyone else.
In typical fashion of Trump no foresight. He goes into a meeting, thinks of a really stupid idea, and just gets up at the podium and says it, with absolutely NO thought as to what his words could mean on the geo-politcal stage.
US strategists must be losing their fucking mind.
They tell Trump how important Greenland and Panama is to US national security, and Dingledorf in chief gets up there and announces to the world US's strategic ambitions and security short comings.
Art of the Deal indeed, announce how really important something is to you before you even start dealing.
What a goof. US is getting played so badly... He's losing 1D chess.
But, but lots of people who heard the loved it. What’s the problem? /s
Can't read the article. Too busy watching leopards eat Gazan faces for dinner.