To interessante analyser : “The Palestinian Authority is utterly absent from this vision. So is Palestinian rule. “
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Donald Trump dropped a bombshell during his press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu:
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” he said. “We’ll own it, and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
Sometimes it is hard to parse out what Trump means. he started off saying that there will be other countries that would invest in rebuilding Gaza. But did he really mean the US would “own” it?
During the Q&A, he made clear that is exactly what he meant.
“As far as Gaza is concerned, we’ll do what is necessary…We’re going to take over that piece we’re going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs and it’ll be something that the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”
And he seemed to contradict himself by saying that Palestinians would live in this new Gaza, but also “the world people” will live there: “I envision a world people living there, the world’s people. I think you’ll make that into an international unbelievable place. I think…. world representatives from all over the world will be there. Palestinians also, Palestinians will live there, many people will live there.”
Normally, a plan like this would be researched, planned, refined, given to the players for opinions and agreed upon before being publicized.
This is not how Trump works. He does not know details nor does he care. He works in broad brush strokes. This plan sounds like it was hatched that afternoon. Yet he has a very good instinct for cutting through the bull and trying to solve the root of the problem, rather than get stuck on the minutia that the experts love to argue about.
So what is Trump’s vision, really?
It sounds like he wants Gazans to leave to other Arab countries, but not necessarily permanently unless they want to. He wants it to become an American territory or protectorate, perhaps similar to the US Virgin Islands. He wants to look at Gaza as an investment opportunity, not a money sink, and he wants the US to profit from it. A Mediterranean paradise where tourists can visit, where Western capitalists and oil sheikhs can rub shoulders and make deals.
The Palestinian Authority is utterly absent from this vision. So is Palestinian rule.
Would this be legal? Almost no one would say so, but creative legal minds could find a way. Gaza was never a part of any nation that has a current legal claim on it. A (strained) case could be made that Gaza – especially postwar Gaza – is terra nullius, and therefore the US can occupy it legally. In the end, international law is what the major powers want it to be and they find justifications afterwards. Israel’s critics have been doing this for decades. This is no more creative than saying that Gaza between 2007-2023 was occupied by Israel, or the “apartheid” and “genocide” slurs.
Why shouldn’t the US slant its own vision of international law in the other direction for once? To Trump, legality isn’t an absolute – it is a political tool that is used subjectively, therefore the US can do the same thing.
An occupation would require troops. Trump has been reluctant to involve the US in foreign adventures; I do not know what he has in mind for the army. But this seems to be consistent with his desire to “clean out” Gaza – which means to only allow back in the Gazans who are not likely terrorists.
One thing is for sure: Israel and America haters will despise this plan, and claim that it violates human rights and international law. And this plan, if done properly, would save more lives than anything the “human rights” posers could possibly imagine as being “justice.” Which is what makes this so compelling: if you care about the value of human life, you can have the fake “justice” of a Gaza terror state or you can have peace, but you cannot have both. Trump’s plan is more pro-peace than all the “ceasefire” protestors ever could be.
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Trump Refuses to Repeat Failed Policies, Says U.S. Will ‘Own’ Gaza
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We are living at a truly momentous time in history. Donald Trump illustrated that yet again on Tuesday evening during his press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You have to learn from history,” Trump declared and proceeded to upend the political order that has prevailed in the Middle East for decades. It is a multiply failed order and new approaches are very, very long overdue, but no one has dared to question it and suggest new solutions. Until now.
The most momentous announcement of this most momentous of press conferences was Trump’s declaration that Hamas would not be permitted to regain control of Gaza and that, in fact, the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip… we will own it.” He also reiterated his insistence that 1.7 million Palestinians would be relocated to Egypt and Jordan, explaining several times that this was necessary because the failed policies of the past should not and must not be applied yet again.
Hamas, Trump said, had ruled Gaza for years and offered no options for the Palestinian people beyond bloodshed and death. He sketched out a vision of a restored Gaza that would be an international area, populated not just by Palestinian Arabs but by people from all over the world who would be able to enjoy its renaissance as the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
When asked if this meant that he was rejecting the possibility of a “two-state solution,” Trump said that he wasn’t addressing that at all, but merely saying that the old policies of the past had failed and that new solutions needed to be tried. He and Netanyahu also both expressed confidence that Saudi Arabia would soon normalize relations with Israel, which would have a seismic effect upon the Muslim Middle East, as it has shown unremitting hostility to Israel ever since the founding of the modern Jewish state in 1948.
Trump’s plan may sound crazy, and the establishment media and establishment policy analysts are already purporting to explain just how crazy it is. But in reality, the crazy plan is the one that has been in place since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 and which has remained the view of the conflict that virtually everyone has taken for granted for over three decades now.
The idea of the Oslo Accords was that Israel would relinquish sovereignty over certain areas of Judea and Samaria (that is, the West Bank, as the Jordanian government renamed the region in 1950 in order to obscure its ancient ties to the Jewish people), as well as of Gaza, and that the Palestinian Authority would be established to govern those territories. Israel and the Palestinian Authority would then work with the Palestinians toward the establishment of a fully independent Palestinian state. The two states would then, as the rhetoric of a thousand establishment politicians has affirmed since then, live side by side in peace.
There were numerous problems with this plan from the beginning. One is that the Palestinians are not in reality a distinct ethnicity or nationality; they are identical culturally, religiously, linguistically, and ethnically to the Arabs of Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. Giving them the Palestinian Authority, and ultimately a state, would simply be establishing a twenty-third Arab state at the expense of the world’s lone Jewish state and would be rewarding the propaganda campaign that has convinced much of the world that the Palestinians are actually the indigenous people of the area.
Even worse, the fundamental reason why all peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians have failed is because of the imperative in the Qur’an, “Drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). That passage is the basis for the Islamic idea that any land once ruled under Islamic law belongs by right to Islam forever and that Muslims have a responsibility before Allah to remove any people from what they think is Islamic land.
Thus, the two people would never live side by side. That has been proven abundantly, not least by what happened after Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Instead of resuming normal lives, the Palestinians turned Gaza into a new jihad base. They will never accept an Israel even the size of a postage stamp; the Qur’anic imperative to drive them out will remain. This is why Hamas always breaks every truce, every peace accord, every ceasefire.
So Trump is right. A radical new approach is needed. And he is right also that Egypt and Jordan should take in the Gazans. They have refused to do so for decades because they wanted to keep the Palestinian issue alive as a weapon to use against the Jewish state that they also hated for Islamic reasons. Now, in view of the fact that they are one people, they should accept their brethren just as Germany accepted the displaced Eastern Germans after Germany rightly lost territory following World War II.
Related: Hamas Celebrates Ceasefire Deal in Gaza, and With Good Reason
As for American administration of Gaza, it could work as a temporary measure, but only if leftist nation-builders are kept far away from the project and the whole area is approached in a manner that has not been attempted before: not to teach the natives who hate the West and democracy to love both but to free the area of jihadis and then build a new life with those who remain.
In any case, there is still a long way to go and many hurdles to clear before Trump’s plan can even come close to being implemented. In discarding the old failed policies, however, he is very much on the right track. All free people should be praying for his success.
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Trumps evne til konstant at ophidse og forarge de hjernevaskede woke masser er uforlignelig. Hver dag en ny “provokation” fra Trump, der får de røde tossers TDS til at bryde ud i lys lue.
Bare se overskrifterne i samtlige danske fake news medier i dag.
Alle skældsord er efterhånden brugt om Trump, så hvad skal de stakkels “journalister” snart finde på?😂
Faktisk genialt tænkt af Trumpf. Hvem skulle ellers? ( ok for mig at israel overtog Gaza helt og holdent, men det ville gnide salt i såret for den islamiske selvforståelse,….hvilket ville være ok for mig….Men det ville ikke bringe fred…mit gæt). Hamas? Aldrig. Aldrig igen. Hamas skal bare udryddes. Man gav ikke Tyskland til Nazisterne efter 2 verdenskrig. USA? En god ide. Så behøver de heller ikke at have en millitærbase i Qatar…mit gæt. Genial ide.
Rigtig godt.
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Jeg har længe været fortaler for at de muslimske pali-arabere skulle fordeles mellem de lande der har fordrevet jøderne i samme forhold som den fordrevne jødiske befolkning.
De skal selvfølge også modtage alle efterkommere som opholder sig i Europa, men det er nok mere usandsynligt, da det vil møde modstand fra det meste af etablissementet, for hvem det er blevet en del af der identitet at støtte deres muslimske fjender.
Hej Allan
det er da et godt forslag , du kommer med 😉
mvh Trumfes
De arabiske lande vil – forståeligt nok – ikke have pæstilenserne. Men bare rolig, man så kan man jo flytte dem til Danmark! – Her har man underskrevet Marrakech-traktaten (som giver fri adgang til alverdens muslimer), sharia-lovgivning er allerede ved at blive indført og landet er (som erfaringen viser)
meget attraktivt for dem. Vel ankommet hertil får de tildelt førtidspension og kan så gå i gang med deres yndlingsbeskæftigelser: lave terror, ballede og flere muslimer. Problem løst.