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Personally I think his thoughts of offering to temporarily move the population and rebuild the area are very generous, given what the Palestinian Authority terrorists did and are doing to Americans; and the terrorists openly say they will do it again.
Kill, kidnap, execute.https://www.ajc.org/news/how-many-americans-have-been-killed-by-hamas-before-and-after-october-7
I'd have demanded unconditional surrender of the Gazan terror regime. And have then proceeded to systematically flatten every Gazan building in a methodical search to free all of the international hostages.
From what I gather watching Al-jazz propaganda and the Fench & BBC news channels, the terrorists will keep some hostages (for years) and in a month or so Israel will renew attempts to rescue them and secure the safety of its people.
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Well they could rebuild a third at a time, so only a third would be moved out at a time.
Something needs to be done; Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia are no more helpful than Yemen, Iran, Qatar and UAE.
The massacres and kidnapping of 7th October 2023 cannot be allowed to be repeated. And if Gaza has to be bulldozed then amen.
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wrote on 11 Feb 2025, 10:06 last edited by
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wrote on 11 Feb 2025, 10:11 last edited by
I believe it was the Israeli war criminal's then second in command who said all (emphasis added) Palestinians were, "human animals."
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wrote on 11 Feb 2025, 20:13 last edited by
I'm not reading the details of anything he says or proposes, but I am curious. Where does he think the Palestinians will be resettled to?
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wrote on 11 Feb 2025, 20:22 last edited by
It's pretty much "somewhere other than Gaza". And he's threatening to withhold aid from Jordan and Egypt if they don't take any Palestinians.
And he keeps saying it won't cost Americans anything. That there will be no military involvement. Just sprinkle some fairy dust around and he can develop this dandy new real estate parcel...
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wrote on 11 Feb 2025, 20:34 last edited by
The world has figured him out. Give him something and he can claim the win.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Tuesday that he would take in 2,000 Palestinian children from Gaza who are very sick or have cancer in response to a plan by President Donald Trump to resettle the residents of the war-torn strip.
Trump called the offer a “beautiful gesture” and said he believed “99%” that something could be worked out with Egypt, another regional partner that had bristled at the president's surprise plan. "We'll have some others helping," Trump added.
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wrote on 11 Feb 2025, 23:18 last edited by
I love it. I'm the moderate in this discussion ...
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wrote on 13 Feb 2025, 15:28 last edited by wtg
And in today's news...
More than 350 rabbis, alongside additional signatories including Jewish creatives and activists, have signed an ad in the New York Times in which they condemn Donald Trump’s proposal for the effective ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.
The ad, which was signed by rabbis including Sharon Brous, Roly Matalon and Alissa Wise, as well as Jewish creatives and activists including Tony Kushner, Ilana Glazer, Naomi Klein and Joaquin Phoenix, says: “Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say no to ethnic cleansing!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/rabbis-ad-trump-gaza-plan
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wrote on 15 Feb 2025, 19:18 last edited by
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wrote on 15 Feb 2025, 19:39 last edited by Steve Miller
That’s a good article, but I think Friedman may be reading too much in to this.
Spanky saw a picture that showed a nice beach lined with substandard buildings and decided it would make a nice resort. Kushner said as much a few years back.
I think it really is that simple.
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wrote on 15 Feb 2025, 21:20 last edited by
More perspective, from DW:
https://www.dw.com/en/can-arab-nations-stop-trumps-gaza-riviera-plans/a-71614047
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 00:35 last edited by wtg
An alternative to Donald Trump’s plan to turn the Gaza Strip into a US-owned “Riviera of the Middle East” is being prepared by Egypt in conjunction with the World Bank, under which Hamas would be formally excluded from governance and control of the territory’s reconstruction.
The process would be handed over on an interim basis to the control of a social or community support committee. No member of Hamas would sit on the committee. But the future military status of Hamas within Gaza is unresolved, which is likely to be a barrier to Israeli endorsement of the plan.
Arab states – principally the United Arab Emirates and Qatar – are preparing to make financial offers to fund reconstruction, but on the basis that Palestinians are given the right to remain in Gaza and are not forced to seek temporary or permanent refuge in Egypt or Jordan. Reconstruction would take three to five years, with 65% of the property in Gaza having been destroyed.
European sources admit the issue of providing security guarantees to Israel for Gaza remains unresolved since no Arab country is willing to offer troops in the absence of Israel offering a clear political horizon to a Palestinian state.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/16/egypt-gaza-reconstruction-plan-hamas
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 01:32 last edited by
The only way to "exclude" Hamas is to occupy the territory with a sizable military force that can go door to door seizing weapons and engaging in combat with battle groups that resist, and which can go tunnel to tunnel wiping out Hamas operatives in them. Any other idea is delusional. Hamas will kill its way to control as soon as it can.
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wrote on 5 Mar 2025, 22:39 last edited by
According to BBC radio 4 Trump(CF) a few minutes ago tweeted that Hamas must release all the remaining hostages and return all bodies now...or else...last warning.
Anyone seen his tweet and able to share?
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According to BBC radio 4 Trump(CF) a few minutes ago tweeted that Hamas must release all the remaining hostages and return all bodies now...or else...last warning.
Anyone seen his tweet and able to share?
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wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 00:38 last edited by
The Trump administration has been holding direct talks with Hamas over the release of U.S. hostages held in Gaza and the possibility of a broader deal to end the war, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions tell Axios.
Why it matters: The talks — held by U.S. presidential envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler — are unprecedented. The U.S. had never before engaged directly with Hamas, which it designated a terrorist organization in 1997.
Behind the scenes: The meetings between Boehler and Hamas officials took place in Doha in recent weeks.
While the Trump administration consulted with Israel about the possibility of engaging with Hamas, Israel learned about aspects of the talks through other channels, one source said.
The sources spoke with Axios on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the sensitive meetings.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/05/us-hamas-talks-gaza-war-israel
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wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 07:06 last edited by
Thanks.
So he talked to ex-hostages and knows first hand what happened, what they suffered, and what one US citizen is still enduring.