President Trump: No U.S. Troops Needed for Gaza Plan
President Trump on Truth Social: “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting.”
With the mainstream media and Hamas supporters across the world still recovering from their collective hissy fit, President Donald Trump on Thursday elaborated his vision for Gaza.
Writing on the Truth Social platform, President Trump announced that no U.S. troops would be needed to implement the plan.
The Gaza reconstruction and resettlement plan, first proposed by President Trump at a White House news conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, envisages large-scale development of the enclave wrecked with destruction after Hamas launched a massive unprovoked attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too." –President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/aCqLl9Gwwn
— President Donald J. Trump (@POTUS) February 5, 2025
“The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,” President Trump said on Truth Social.
“The Palestinians … would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region. They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free,” he said. “The U.S., working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth.”
“No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed! Stability for the region would reign!!!” the president added.
🚨 JUST IN: Trump clarifies his Gaza plan: The Gaza Strip will be turned over to the US by Israel at the conclusion of the fighting. No soldiers by the US would be needed. 👇 pic.twitter.com/HJPVjf01vF
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) February 6, 2025
Despite rejection from the European and Arab governments, the president’s plan was welcomed by Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was on a two-day visit to the U.S., The Times of Israel reported:
US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gazans and assume control of the Strip is being treated by Israel as a “day after” plan for the war-torn territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicates.
In preview footage from an interview to be aired tonight on the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14, Netanyahu says: “This is the way of the world. The president of the United States came — and they spoke to us all the time, what about the day after? — and you wanted a day after? Here he came with a new idea, totally different, the day after Hamas of course, because you can’t talk about anything else.”
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— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) February 5, 2025
Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to put together a plan that could facilitate a voluntary emigration of Gazans from the terrorist-infested enclave.
The CBS News reported:
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday “welcomed Mr. Trump’s bold plan.”
“I instructed the IDF to prepare a plan that will allow any resident of Gaza who is interested to leave to any place in the world that agrees to accept them,” Katz said in a statement. “The plan will include options for exit at land crossings as well as special arrangements for exit by sea and air.”
China and Russia joined Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in opposing the U.S. plan that seeks to transform Gaza and promises its residents a better life after a self-inflicted 15-month war that exposed the vast terrorist underground infrastructure built beneath the enclave. The terrorist-ruled Gaza is littered with unexploded ammunition and weaponry, making the reconstruction work extremely risky for construction workers and residents alike.
Western European countries, including Germany and France, called for the resurrection of the failed ‘two-state solution,’ a move that will create a terrorist state east and south-west of Israel. “European countries reiterated their support for the two-state solution after Donald Trump suggested America “take over” the Gaza Strip,” the France-based Euronews TV channel reported.
United Nations chief António Guterres likened President Trump’s proposal to “ethnic cleansing.”
“Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, … and a warning against “ethnic cleansing” from the head of the UN,” the UK newspaper Guardian reported.
Gaza terrorists continue to threaten Israeli troops, jeopardize ceasefire
Despite Israel observing a ceasefire in Gaza for over three weeks, Palestinian terrorists continue to threaten IDF troops posted in the enclave in keeping with the agreement.
On Wednesday, terrorists tried to take up positions close to the IDF posts. “IDF troops operating in the area fired warning shots to distance suspects who were moving toward them and posed a threat to troops in a number of areas in the Gaza Strip,” the military said in a statement.
“Additionally, in southern Gaza, IDF troops identified a number of suspects moving near them, and posing an imminent threat to them, and fired warning shots to distance the suspects,” the IDF disclosed. “After the suspects continued to advance toward the troops, the troops fired additional shots in order to remove the threat.”
“The IDF is committed to fully implementing the conditions of the agreement for the return of the hostages,” the military added.
Meanwhile, Israeli military and security services continue their counter-terrorism operation in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank. The operation comes after a series of deadly terrorist attacks originating from the area. “Israeli soldiers, cops and Shin Bet agents continued the large-scale counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank overnight, the IDF says in a statement,” The Times of Israel wrote. “The forces discovered and destroyed a bomb manufacturing lab along with several explosive devices.”
Speaking at the scene of this morning's deadly shooting attack in the northern West Bank, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says the army will ramp up and expand military operations in the area.
"This is a difficult attack in which we lost two reserve soldiers. We will… pic.twitter.com/xqMhDpg88P
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 4, 2025
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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. Can this moron stick to his story for even a day. He clearly is uneducated about the issues. Never thinks things through.
has nobody to advise him. ( MAGA lackeys aren’t good advisors) All componded by the fact that he has a BiiiiiiiiG Mouth. This dumb shit played big to the rubes at MAGA cult rallies. In front of normal people????ummmm not so much
It really peeves you, eh? Wonderful!
What are you doing here? We told Maxine Waters not to let her kids play with the computer.
Why do you think that tjv1156 (or anyone else, for that matter) owes you an explanation?
If he wants to be taken seriously. Otherwise he’s like a buzzing fly in the background.
Go back to your village. They are missing their idiot.
Please state the source of your authority for ordering me (or anyone else) to leave this comment section.
I don’t think the village is missing their idiot.
His authority is greater than that of the UN.
Check your dipstick — your concern reservoir is definitely overfull.
What if HE’S the dipstick?
He’s a billionaire. He’s the president. What are you, Junior, an ex-assistant busboy?
Aw, shaddup, Johnny.
No one cares. Not even you.
This zone is too hot. Any US military deployed to gaza would be used as target practice by terrorists. While any US civilians working on reconstruction would become targets for hostage taking.
Exactly. IMO the President’s comment are naive and not reflective of conditions on the ground, now or in the future. Recall that Hamas shot at people on that floating pier. Killing and/or kidnapping Americans is probably one step up from Israelis for them.
“Hissy fit”?
That insulting dismissal of the worldwide outrage over President Trump’s sickening, criminal proposal is utterly sociopathic.
It’s right on the money, I’d say.
As f the “rest of the world” has any business telling the citizens of Israel or… Oh My Gosh! even the United States what to do.
The status of Gaza isn’t up to Germany or Russia or Qatar, and proposing a “two-state solution” which has failed every time its been proposed because one side insists on the annihilation of the other, is beyond insane. In fact, it screams “We are making too much money or political bank out of this conflict to actually get it resolved..”
Of course, you already knew this, but you’re a pearl-clutcher at best, a troll without doubt.
Now, let’s hear some insults since that’s all you have.
Hissy fit is a perfect description of what you continue to experience in your never ending quest to call others sociopaths and offer deception.
Have you and other suppporters of this revolting, cold-blooded proposal been pumped so full of “American Exceptionalism” that you think the US can continue dismissing the worldwide outrage so cavalierly?
The rest of the world is — and has been, for some time now — onto the US’s game of screaming about some groups of Islamic terrorists while at the same time paying other groups to destabilize governments that are unfriendly to us. Just as we support (in Ukraine) a Nazi-infested dicatorship in the name of ‘defending democracy”.
How much longer do you think the US can get away with it?
“screaming about some groups of Islamic terrorists” yup Hamas is just some group of terrorists. Yup nothing special to see here. Wow, you really don’t know what you are talking about. Try being related to people who have been murdered by this little group of Islamic terrorists and then see what its like. Puts it into a different perspective for sure. Also, Hamas is just a pawn of Iran, a fact you don’t seem to grasp. Resettling Palestinians takes away one of Iran’s most useful pawns and it also forces the rest of the Middle Eastern “governments” to stop pretend caring about these people as a way to distract from their own failings.
Not interested in arguing with know it alls having hissy fits about bogeymen.
Christ. Are YOU a putz.
The next four years are going to be very painful for you.
You keep speaking of ‘the rest of the world’.
Stop.
Anyone who spends all their time trying to cater to the whims of those who dislike them in the hopes of getting liked will only succeed in failure.
What’s sickening is Hamas, not Trump. And if you hate refugees being resettled versus forced to stay under terrorist rule and live as human shields than maybe you are the sociopath. Do you acre that Syrian refugees who were gased and slaughtered have been resettled in Turkey? Or that Iraqi refugees were resettled in tons of places post-war. How about Refugees from Bosnia being resetlled in Saudi Arabia, was that ethnic cleansing too? Why is that just Palestinians are never allowed to go anywhere else and must stay to be the world’s pawns against Israel. Gaza was never a sovereign nation at any point in human history. It has been part of many other countries but was never part of any territory or country called Palestine, unless you count the brief period of British colonial rule. Gaza was taken by Egypt and then lost to Israel in war. Israel doesn’t want to rule it and neither does Egypt because it’s just used as a launching pad for terrorism. The answer isn’t to create another fake state that no one wants, certainly the Palestinians don’t want. The answer has always been to let these people move on with their lives and stop being the world longest running group of refugees that actually pass on refugee status to their children. That set up has always been insane and needs to end.
Most of the people in Gaza arrived in the last 55 years. At the end of the ‘67 war when Egypt’s control ended there were only about 50k people there.
Now there are about 2 million. They came from Egypt and Jordan.
Destroy Hamas and give the people a choice to go somewhere where there are jobs and homes and no war and the exodus will be massive.
Just as long as they are not brought to the US. We already have too many problem children. Let them go elsewhere, I suggest China,
Poor moonmoth. His pals in Hamas and Hezbollah may not be able to launch terrorists attacks from Gaza in the near future.
FTR, I’d rather the “Palestinians” live in squalor in their hovels constructed from the rubble of what’s left of Gaza. Nothing in, nothing out.
Let’s see how long that nearly 80% support for Hamas lasts.
“His pals in Hamas and Hezbollah may not be able to launch terrorists attacks from Gaza in the near future.”
They’re not my pals. But as LI has been warning for years now, their terrorist allies have been infiltrating through our southern border for the last 4 years.
That’s a genuine worry that we can address better by not squandering resources overseas on Trump’s crackpot “Gaza” scheme, or ruining what’s left of our relations with countries that might otherwise be helpful to us.
Sure thing, moonmoth. Is that why you spent multiple posts yesterday whining about 2 leaders celebrating perhaps the greatest military intelligence operation in history? You were awfully upset that poor, little Hezbollah was the butt of a joke.
I’m guessing that the longer you post your bullshit here, the lower that mask will slip.
It’s not a binary choice.
It is precisely a hissy because they can do precisely nothing about it. The only thing the UN can do that’s even vaguely binding is via the security council, and we have a veto over that. So the UN is basically powerless.
I also noticed you whine a lot about the people in Gaza, but don’t seem to care much about the Israelis or what happens to them. What Hamas is attempting is both ethnic cleansing and also genocide. Perhaps you should condemn them.
What the hell is “sickening” or “criminal” about it? Who would be harmed? These people who claim to be refugees would finally be given a home somewhere; isn’t that what you do with refugees? If they don’t want it then they prove that they’re not really refugees but dedicated terrorists.
Remember, it’s not their country. It never was, and it never will be.
“Sociopathic.”
Speaking of “insulting,” I’m sure the LI writers are delighted to have someone with your relative lack of intellectual candlepower fulminating in the Comments section.
You’ve become increasingly irrelevant with your know-it-all “concern-trolling,” your virtue-signaling, and your fake persona.
Any decent commenter would have taken the hint and self-deported, but you? You double down with your “same ol’ same ol'” schtick, and then whine about it when you get taken to task for it.
You’re a tiresome drudge.
The important point here is the day after Hamas. So after the temporary ceasefire there will be a return to fighting between Israel and Hamas until Hamas are defeated. Then the US can go in and take over the ground if they want. I think the subtle point of when the US goes in is the key point. Also offering voluntary resettlement to people won’t be possible until Hamas is removed as Hamas won’t let their human shields walk away.
The road ahead will have many twists and turns, but can it be any worse than what is left behind?
The only “two state solution” is Gaza is allied with Israel and the “Palestinians” are somewhere else in somebody else’s state. Dilution is the key. The world dealt with that after WWII with “displaced persons”.
All of these morons yelping about relocating the Gazans are too funny. I bet less than 5% of them recall that Kuwait unceremoniously ejected over 400,000 palis after Gulf War I (because the palis were big Saddam supporters) into .. JORDAN! No one said anything. Not a peep. And the 400,000 palis just dissolved into Jordanian society and that was that.
But, interestingly, at the exact same time the world did get all up in arms about ejected palis … Israel temporarily exiled 212 hamas members from the West Bank to the Lebanese border for two years. THey refused to go into Lebanon, camped out on the border, and had something like 500 international”journalists” with them reporting every single day on their terrible “plight”. But the 400,000 palis kicked out of Kuwait … nothing and no problems.
All of these morons yelping about relocating the Gazans are too funny.
They’re also extremely numerous (specifically, the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries), with considerable means to weaken the US’s power. As I asked someone earlier in this thread, have you and other suppporters of this proposal been pumped so full of “American Exceptionalism” that you think the US can continue dismissing the worldwide outrage so cavalierly?
The concern troll is concerned again. 😄
The next four years will become INCREASINGLY concerning for him.
Sweet Sister Josephine! moomouth and tjv1176 are the same person.
And both are JR, or the incestuous relatives of.
Please present your evidence for that accusation.
Please present your evidence for that accusation.
And all of them are a walrus!
Sealion. I mean sealion. The walrus is Ambien.
“No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed!”
And even better, he’s going to make the Palestinians pay for it all!
As usual with Trump, his opening bid is not his actual play.
He ALWAYS stakes out an extreme position publicly, and then lets everyone freak out about it while he negotiates the deal he actually wants privately.
In many cases, its not hard to figure out exactly what he’s going for. In this case, I have to admit I’m not seeing it.
He’s saying the US is going to own it and rebuild it, and the US is going to dismantle all of the explosives still there, etc, etc, and move hundreds of thousands, perhaps a couple million, people out of Gaza. But, he’s also saying this is going to happen without US troops on the ground and without spending US tax dollars.
Right.
I’m more interested in what the end result is supposed to look like. What’s the goal here? Because, if the idea is that we’re going to eliminate HAMAS and then repopulate Gaza like it is now, with 100% muslims then its going to be just like it was on 10/7 immediately and what’s the point of any of this?
Israel used to have full control of Gaza and there were substantial numbers of Jewish and Christian citizens living there. Jimmy Carter pressured Israel in the Camp David Accords to make a deal dubbed “Land for Peace” giving arab muslims autonomy (NOT sovereignty) over Gaza – and as part of the deal Israel was required to forcibly remove all Jewish citizens from the territory. Most absolutely did NOT want to go and resisted by force, and Israel had to forcibly remove them with their military.
Talk about ethnic cleansing.
End result: The arab muslims got 100% of the land they were promised, and Israel got precisely 0% of the peace they were supposed to get in return. In fact, that deal exponentially increased the terrorist actions against Israeli citizens. So, the terms of the deal were violated immediately and continuously from 1978 until now.
IMO Israel should simply retake administrative control over it. They are the sovereign power in control of Gaza, just end the semi-autonomous self governing by the muslims living there. Work with Trump on resettling 100% of the current population to Egypt, Jordan, maybe Saudi Arabia, and maybe the so-called ‘west bank’. Then repopulate it with their own people – which, unlike the current population which excludes every religion other than islam, would be inclusive of all religions just like the rest of Israel already is.
As much as I’d like to blame Jimmy Carter, Camp David did not require Israel to remove Jews from Gaza. That expulsion occurred in 2005, over a decade after Carter left office. Sad to say, it was the brainchild of Israel’s PM Arik Sharon, and it devastated the lives of the Jews who were expelled, many of whom never got more than a fraction of the promised (but still inadequate) compensation. One of them was the cousin of a friend of mine, who spoke to our shul about what happened.