We Will EXPEL Gaza's ENTIRE POPULATION - Donald Trump

We Will EXPEL Gaza's ENTIRE POPULATION - Donald Trump

Jan. 31, 2025

Owen Jones

Donald Trump proved that he’s no peacemaker when it comes to Israel’s genocidal war. He floated the idea of forcible expulsion for Palestinians Saturday, saying that Jordan, Egypt, and other Arab nations should take in refugees to “just clean out” the destroyed Gaza Strip and create a “clean slate.”

He posed the possibility of resettlement less than 48 hours before tens of thousands of Gazans started crossing back into the devastated northern part of the strip for the first time since the war began. They are being allowed by Israel to return under the terms of the ceasefire agreement brokered earlier this month.

Trump’s proposal for ethnically cleansing Gaza threatens to upend the fragile truce and suggests his administration, like that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has alternative plans in the works.

The president’s comments on the weekend continued a line of a thinking he put forward last Monday, on his first day back in office. Just after his inauguration, Trump said he was “not confident” that the truce between Netanyahu’s military and Hamas would hold.

“I looked at a picture of Gaza,” he said, “Gaza is like a massive demolition site.” Trump spoke glowingly, however, of Gaza’s “phenomenal location on the sea, best weather.” He said, “Some beautiful things could be done with it.”

Such musings immediately invited questions about whether the president sees Gaza as a potential real estate investment opportunity. His son-in-law and former Middle East policy advisor, Jared Kushner, is already locking down agreements to build luxury seaside hotel resorts in other countries on the Mediterranean and has talked of Gaza’s potential for similar pursuits.

Trump pitched his Gaza “clean out” scheme during a talk with reporters on Air Force One Saturday. At the same time, he announced he had revoked President Joe Biden’s suspension of deliveries of 2,000-lb. bombs to the Israeli military.

“We released them today, they’ve been waiting for them for a long time,” Trump said, referring to the deadly bombs Israel used to level entire apartment buildings and kill dozens of Palestinians at a time earlier in the war.

Bowing to the pressure of the ceasefire movement in the U.S. and international humanitarian concerns, Biden paused shipment of the munitions last year but allowed the continued flow of other weapons systems.

Asked why he lifted the ban, businessman Trump responded, “Because they bought them.”

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/prime-palestinian-real-estate-trumps-proposed-gaza-clean-out-mixes-policy-and-profits/

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