Netanyahu Backs Trump’s Gaza Plan, Says Residents Could Return if They ‘Disavow Terrorism’
Netanyahu: “You want to come back? You have to disavow terrorism.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again spoke in favor of President Donald Trump’s reconstruction and resettlement plan for Gaza. Under the proposed plan, the relocation of the Gaza residents would be temporary, and they should be allowed to return if they “disavow terrorism,” the Israeli prime minister said Saturday.
The sole condition laid down by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reasonable and sound given the use of Gaza as a staging ground for terrorist attacks against Israel for nearly two decades.
According to the Israeli prime minister, Gaza residents could be temporarily relocated to neighboring Arab countries, presumably Egypt and Jordan. At the same time, a U.S.-led construction effort rebuilds the enclave destroyed as a consequence of the 15-month war resulting from Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
“Give them an option to relocate temporarily while we rebuild the place physically and while we also rebuild it in terms of radicalization,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News host Mark Levin.
“You want to come back? You have to disavow terrorism, but you can come back,” he assured.
I’ll see you tonight on a great Life, Liberty and Levin, 8pm Eastern on Fox with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Set your DVR if you can’t watch live! pic.twitter.com/ckpgZ7v6xM
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) February 8, 2025
President Donald Trump is “the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House,” the Israeli prime minister acknowledged during the interview.
Less than three weeks into office, President Trump restored weapons exports to Israel stifled under the outgoing Biden administration. He also slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for going after members of U.S. and Israeli armed forces, as well as issuing an ‘arrest warrant’ against Prime Minister Netanyahu for overseeing the Israeli military response in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 terror attack.
Fox News reported the Israeli prime minister’s comments:
In an interview with “Life, Liberty & Levin” host Mark Levin that will air on Saturday night, Netanyahu praised Trump’s leadership and his impact on the U.S.-Israel alliance.
“I think President Trump is the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House,” Netanyahu said. “He’s not only making a tremendous change in the Israeli-American alliance, strengthening it beyond anything we’ve seen up to now, but also he’s also a great leader for America and the world.”
Since returning to office less than a month ago, President Trump has made several high-profile moves affecting Israel and the Middle East. Before his inauguration, Trump issued a stern warning to Hamas, threatening “all hell to pay” if hostages held in Gaza were not released. A deal, brokered with the assistance of the Biden administration, followed shortly after.
One of the most notable policy shifts came in late January when Trump lifted a hold on the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. The Biden administration had previously paused the shipment over concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza. Netanyahu described Trump’s decision to lift the pause as “instantaneous.”
“In the first two weeks, he did everything that he promised to do,” Netanyahu said. “He went against antisemitism, went against the ICC. This corrupt so-called International Court that targets America, targets Israel, targets democracies.” (…)
Netanyahu expressed his support for the plan and emphasized Israel’s commitment to working closely with the U.S. on future Middle East policy.
“Israel has no better friend than America,” Netanyahu said. “And now, under President Trump’s leadership, America has no greater friend than Israel.”
“It’s a great beginning and a restart, a recalibration of our great alliance.”
Earlier this week, President Trump angered European and Arab powers by suggesting that the U.S. could undertake the Gaza reconstitution plan, transforming the terrorist-infested enclave and offering its residents the prospect of a better life in nearby Arab states.
“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,” the president proposed Tuesday at a news conference with the visiting Israeli leader. He also spoke of the need to “level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out.”
Trump’s proposal was also rejected by globalist institutions like the United Nations and the European Union, who predictably sided with Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist outfits in their condemnation.
On Thursday, President Trump imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Netherlands-based kangaroo court which issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Netanyahu.
In a White House memo, the Trump administration slammed the Europe-based tribunal for creating a “shameful moral equivalency” between the terror group Hamas and Israel, a country responding to a vicious terrorist attack.
Noting ICC’s previous legal moves aimed at U.S. servicemen, President Trump warned that any measure by the self-appointed world court against the members of the U.S armed forces will be treated as an “extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy.”
Thank you, President Trump, for your bold ICC Executive Order. It will defend America and Israel from the anti-American and antisemetic corrupt court that has no jurisdiction or basis to engage in lawfare against us.
The ICC waged a ruthless campaign against Israel as a trial…
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) February 7, 2025
Gaza terrorists continue to threaten IDF troops
While Israel observes a ceasefire in Gaza to facilitate the first phase of the hostages-for-terrorists deal, Palestinian terrorists continue to provoke and threaten Israeli ground troops based in the enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement Saturday evening.
“Throughout the weekend, the IDF operated to distance several suspects who approached and posed a threat to IDF troops operating in a number of locations in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military observed.
“Earlier today (Saturday), the IAF (Israeli Air Force) fired to distance suspicious vehicles that were advancing northward from the central Gaza Strip along a non-approved route, without passing through the agreed inspection route, thus violating the agreed framework of the agreement,” the IDF disclosed.
“Additionally, earlier today, IDF troops identified a suspect who was moving toward them in southern Gaza and fired warning shots to distance him. After the suspect continued to approach the troops and posed an imminent threat to them, additional shots were fired in order to remove the threat,” the IDF statement said.
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Crossies, doesn’t count?
Yup. Netanyahu was probably crossing his fingers, toes, arms, legs, and eyes.
We have a muzzie problem
End of story
Upon returning from their “temporary” “voluntary” removal by the IDF, each returnee will be no doubt given a free golden pager by Netanyahu, personally.
Plus a bridge in Brooklyn.
Count on you to ruin a perfectly good joke.
They are “refugees”; they have no history with Gaza (which was part of Egypt, not a mythical “Palestine”). Resettle them like is always done with refugees.
Agreed ; this happens with every group in the world. Stop using Palestinians as a way to kill Jews; and let them have a life.
The Gaza Strip was never part of Egypt at any time in the last 2000 years. The Egyptians don’t want its inhabitants, any more than anyone else wants them. They’ve made themselves obnoxious to all humanity, and now must live with the consequences.
First fresh idea in years was Netanyahu said himself.
It’s all posturing at the moment. However, just as when the Zionists built Palestine, and Arabs flocked there to better themselves economically, there are those that still understand these and other benefits. They would offer no threat. Getting rid of the likes of Hamas can allow them to pursue self-interest in peace and become the most prosperous and free of all Arabs.
I don’t care if they are more prosperous and free than other Arabs. I don’t give a shit about them anymore. Move them out.
If they get rid of everyone currently called “Hamas” some new org will develop that could be even worse. They grow terrorists in their elementary schools.
Letting them come back would be a huge mistake.
The plan does appear at first glance to be kick-it-down-the-road ridiculous.
Battlestar Gaza: All this has happened before, all this will happen again.
I disavow terrorism! Okay that’s it?
Hubs wants to turn Gaza into Atlantic City.
Considering that something like 70% of Gazans still supported Hamas (or at least said that they did) even months into the war, taking the chance of letting any of them return would be foolish and would almost guarantee a repeat of the war in another generation if not before.
Israel stats say 80%.
Those who don’t support Hamas support Fatah or PIJ or some other faction that wants the exact same genocide of the Jews, but perhaps with less fanatical Islam imposed on themselves.
Cool. Everyone can apply to come back, get their biometric data on file, fill out an application, formally disavow terrorism. Weed out the known terrorists. Run LEO like they do in Dubai which is way over on the harsh side of strict. With capital investments at risk from Arab State backers and lots of potential revenue on the line from tourism I suspect the tolerance level for trouble making will be effectively zero.
Israel wouldn’t do that. They can’t. If they had the ability not to be soft to Palestinians, we would not be where we are today.
After the Six Day War, Israel controlled the Temple Mount. And the fuckers GAVE IT BACK to a foreign organization, called Waqf (sounds like an Arab term). I say fuckers. They have made me very angry, trading back and forth for decades.
That’s not how they fought in the Old Testament, thank God.
It wouldn’t be Israeli LEO running the show in Gaza in my proposal. It would be a consortium of Arab Nation investors applying the same rule of law as Dubai (UAE) uses; a blend of civil law, common law and Sharia law. Lots of capital crimes under the system including terrorism. Dubai has an exceptionally low crime rate b/c they don’t play around like we do in the West, they enforce the law and make sure that crime does NOT pay.
I’m confused. I thought Israel was going to defeat Hamas and move out the people to refugee reception areas that would be provided, via US help/pressure. Then it would be turned over to the US which would clear out the destruction and basically level and rebuild it — and own it.
Why is Bibi inviting the Palestinians back? I don’t think that was the idea.
Now, you don’t think a muzzie would lie do you?
“Disavowing terrorism” is cheap and vague. At a bare minimum they should be required to swear an oath acknowledging Israel’s legitimate sovereignty and renouncing any intent of overthrowing it. But really they should not be allowed back at all. It’s not their country, and they’ve already demonstrated how dangerous it is to allow them to live there.