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Trump: ‘The U.S. Will Take Over the Gaza Strip’

Trump: ‘The U.S. Will Take Over the Gaza Strip’

Netanyahu to Trump: “You are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House!”

The press conferences with President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were something else.

They held an informal one in the Oval Office before the formal one in the East Room this evening.

Gaza Strip

I guess America is taking the Gaza Strip:

TRUMP: The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. 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.

I guess others are okay with it:

TRUMP: I do see a long term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle east and maybe the entire Middle East. Everybody I’ve spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly, everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent, in a really magnificent area that nobody would know.

Nobody can look because all they see is death and destruction and rubble and demolished buildings falling all over. It’s just a terrible, terrible sight. I’ve studied it. I’ve studied this very closely over, a lot of months, and I’ve seen it from every different angle, and it’s a very, very dangerous place to be, and it’s only going to get worse.

And I think this is an idea that’s gotten tremendous, I’m talking about from the highest level of leadership, gotten tremendous praise and if the United States can help to bring stability.

Troops

Reporter: Will you need to send troops to Gaza to take it over and develop it?

Trump: “If it’s necessary, we’ll do that.”

Netanyahu Praises Trump

Netanyahu to Trump: “You are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House!”

Prime Minister Netanyahu to President Trump: “Your willingness to puncture conventional thinking, thinking that has failed time and time again, your willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas will help us achieve all these goals.”

FOX’S DOOCY: “We have heard Biden and Trump take credit for the hostage and cease-fire deals. Who do you think deserves more credit?”

NETANYAHU: “President Trump”

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ghost dog | February 4, 2025 at 9:15 pm

This is a bad idea.


     
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    moonmoth in reply to ghost dog. | February 4, 2025 at 10:06 pm

    And how.

    The upgrade for the terrorists, should they be allowed back would nullify every complaint they use To justify attacking israel


     
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    mailman in reply to ghost dog. | February 5, 2025 at 4:56 am

    The ground has changed immensely, mostly…actually, solely thanks to the Jews delivering death blows to Hesbullah and bending the Iranians over an apple cart with their relentless targeted attacks on the leadership caste in that country.

    Coupled with a resurgent America who will further isolate Iran…I think that perhaps Gazans actually have a chance at living in peace and prosperity free of outside interference (ie, funding from Iran and Turkey and military support from Hesbullah).

    Hopefully any rebuilding will involve the help of Jordan and Egypt, get them to put some skin in the game so to say…and UNRWA being told to f88k off along with the UN.

    So yeah, there is potential here. As long as the entire strip is denazified like Germany and Japan after WWII then there is hope. Although it wont be easy and a lot of people on the left have a vested interest in this failing (which is incredibly hypocritical of them given their nonstop wanking on about Palestinians living in peace wank wank wank….

    Also, Abbas is surely not long for this world…especially when funding to the PLA has been frozen by Trump.


     
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    diver64 in reply to ghost dog. | February 5, 2025 at 5:05 am

    Trump has been a steamroller in his first couple of weeks but I’m inclined to agree with you. Unless Egypt and Jordan take every terrorist out of there like Trump proposed that is not a piece of land we should have a presence on. It is outside the box thinking, though.


     
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    moonmoth in reply to ghost dog. | February 5, 2025 at 8:22 am

    LI commenters really need to investigate the concept of “the banality of evil”. Where’s the outrage at what President Trump is proposing?

    Some of you have gone insane in this echo chamber.


       
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      steves59 in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 8:46 am

      “Some of you have gone insane in this echo chamber.”

      No one here needs a morality lecture from you, MoonMouth.
      Your smug, self-assured sense of righteousness is duly noted, along with your nonstop attempts to clutter up threads with your TDS.
      We’re no ways tahhhred of winning yet, dufus.
      But I think many “LI commenters” are tiring of you.


         
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        moonmoth in reply to steves59. | February 5, 2025 at 9:27 am

        You — and many others here — have gone full “banality of evil”. Look it up.

        “Tired of you.”

        I’ll be obliged if you can direct me to the TOS that require me to sing along with the rest of the amen chorus in this echo chamber.


           
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          steves59 in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 9:51 am

          LOL. You don’t know me well enough to assign to me the “banality of evil.” So stick your cheap virtue-signaling where the sun doesn’t shine.
          If you’re going to quote me, at least be accurate. I said “tiring of you.” Any moron with a third grade comprehension level would observe that if you consistently get massively downvoted almost every time you post, that’s a certain indication that commenters here are ABSOLUTELY tiring of you.
          You of course can continue to post here, until maybe you weary of getting hammered each time you post.
          The definition of such a poster would be “troll.”


     
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    ScottTheEngineer in reply to ghost dog. | February 5, 2025 at 11:34 am

    I bet gov. Gretchen is getting her panties all wet trying to move these useless Proffesional victims to Michigan so they can live in my neighborhood.


     
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    ghost dog in reply to ghost dog. | February 5, 2025 at 2:14 pm

    I sad what I said. There is no middle ground with Muslims. Just like Beirut they will eventually destroy anything you build unless you’re willing to do what’s necessary. No on is ready to have a discussion on “what’s necessary.”


 
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The Gentle Grizzly | February 4, 2025 at 9:24 pm

If we are going to “defend” a new place then decide which old place to pull out of. Germany. Britain. Wherever. This role of World’s Policeman is expensive. And Gaza is full of Gazans. Muslims. They will always be at each others’ throats and the throats of others. Our troops being there will not stop this.


     
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    JohnSmith100 in reply to The Gentle Grizzly. | February 4, 2025 at 9:39 pm

    As I understand it, Gaza is no longer going to be full of Muslims, they will be in Egypt and Jordon, both of whom have shown in the past how to deal Pale trash.

    This is soon’s Trump would allow the people who have been living there in the past. To return that might not be the case. Or perhaps in numbers small enough to manage. It also takes away the number of things that they’ve complained about that they’ve used As justification for attacking Israel. If the United States builds it the infrastructure, a schools and all that will be great.No doubt and the terrors and all of the terror infrastructure will be long because he’ll go through it with a fine tooth comb


       
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      Milhouse in reply to rduke007. | February 4, 2025 at 11:16 pm

      . It also takes away the number of things that they’ve complained about that they’ve used As justification for attacking Israel. If the United States builds it the infrastructure, a schools and all that will be great.

      They have never complained about a lack of infrastructure. Decades ago Israel built good housing in Gaza; they refused to use it, because they insist on remaining “refugees”.


     
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    diver64 in reply to The Gentle Grizzly. | February 5, 2025 at 5:06 am

    Every country that has delighted in bashing us over the last several decades then let us pay for their security. Germany is one, remember those smirking diplomats that laughed at Trump during his first administration when he warned them about becoming dependent on Russian gas?


 
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moonmoth | February 4, 2025 at 9:30 pm

We have some good news, and we have some bad news.

First the bad news. President Trump has gone stark, raving mad.

Now the good news. This will motivate the Senate to approve Trump’s cabinet nominees ASSP so that they can invoke 25A.


 
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Chitragupta | February 4, 2025 at 9:32 pm

Ok for the sake of argument it will take at least two years or more to build an all new city with streets, water, sewer and electric in Egypt, Jordan or where ever else.

Then it would take another two years for D.R. Horton, Lennar Corp. PulteGroup, Taylor Morrison etc to go in and build a Pacific Palisades of Egypt or a West Palm Beach of Jordan.

Where are the 2 million plus Palestinians going to live for the next four to five years?


     
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    Oracle in reply to Chitragupta. | February 4, 2025 at 9:39 pm

    No one wants them. They have been kicked out of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the last 40 years and Saudi Arabia will not touch them.


     
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    JohnSmith100 in reply to Chitragupta. | February 4, 2025 at 9:46 pm

    Those Gazans will be in miserable tent camps in Jordan and Egypt, they will take good care of the troublemakers.


     
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    Mauiobserver in reply to Chitragupta. | February 4, 2025 at 9:47 pm

    Transport them via ship air and ground to Indonesia, Jordan, Egypt, and a few other Muslim countries. They should live there permanently. Help build them a decent place to live unlike the conditions when the Jews were kicked out of North Africa and many Arab nations in the middle east after Pogroms by the Muslim mobs burned their homes and businesses and rampaged freely raping and murdering.


       
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      moonmoth in reply to Mauiobserver. | February 4, 2025 at 10:04 pm

      “Transport them via ship air and ground to Indonesia, Jordan, Egypt, and a few other Muslim countries.”

      Displace over a million Muslims against their will, to Muslim countries that don’t want to be complicit in ethnic cleansing? If there really are Islamic terror cells that have infiltrated the US, they’ll be active within a month.

        How do you know? The people screaming about USAID try to sound like they know, too.


         
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        Mauiobserver in reply to moonmoth. | February 4, 2025 at 11:51 pm

        It is a much better solution than perpetual war and or terrorist attacks. Displacement after wars is common. Millions relocated forcefully after WWII. The difference is that the US and probably many other nations will fund a potentially much better future life vs. no future other than war and death in Gaza.

        I would not be surprised that a significant number of Gaza residents would voluntarily relocate with proper incentives and absent the fear of retaliation by Hamas and other terrorists. With no UN involved it just might be possible.

        This is a much better option than creating a new terrorist state in Gaza whose main goal is the destruction of Israel and the eradication of the Jews living there.


           
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          GWB in reply to Mauiobserver. | February 5, 2025 at 3:36 pm

          will fund a potentially much better future life vs. no future other than war and death in Gaza
          And, really, the alternative to moving them elsewhere is to kill them in place. Because they have committed themselves to deserving it.


         
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        Milhouse in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 1:20 am

        They insist on being treated as “refugees”. Well, what do you do with refugees? You resettle them.

        It’s not as if they have any right to be there in the first place. It’s not their home. So if there were countries willing to take them in I’d be all for deporting the lot of them, and having Israel annex and settle it. But the catch is finding somewhere willing to take them. Every place in the world, but especially their fellow Arabs, knows how venomous they are. It’s like trying to find a new home for nuclear waste, but worse because you can’t just bury them in a geologically stable rock formation and forget them.


           
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          BobM in reply to Milhouse. | February 5, 2025 at 2:28 am

          Milhouse, too many times I’ve seen “crazy Trump” get results regular uniParty politicians are unable to to want to wager any thing of large value against this idea working as well, but my initial take is “god, no…”, don’t nation build, don’t have go off by yourself to have sex with a camp counselor, and don’t split up from the other teenagers to look for the multiple missing friends.

          I’ll try to keep an open mind, but perhaps this is a mental judo trick to get the middle East to a better place and not an actual plan, just an opening negotiation bid?


           
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          GWB in reply to Milhouse. | February 5, 2025 at 3:38 pm

          because you can’t just bury them in a geologically stable rock formation and forget them
          Why not? Heck, they already dug the holes….


         
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        ThePrimordialOrderedPair in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 5:58 am

        Guess what? You start a war and lose … then you lose stuff. This is the lesson that has been lost on modern society. This is why nations used to think twice about going to war.

        The idea that some group can start a war, lose, and keep all of their sh*t is just INSANE and does nothing but egg every penny-ante gang of thugs to wage wars whenever they feel like it.

        There must be a price for losing a war and it must be dear.


         
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        steves59 in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 7:27 am

        Quit upvoting yourself.


         
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        JohnSmith100 in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 10:38 am

        Yes, get rid of them by any means necessary. Pales are solely responsible for their disreputable characters.


         
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        GWB in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 3:34 pm

        If there really are Islamic terror cells that have infiltrated the US, they’ll be active within a month.
        Which would be preferable to them continuing to hide and to build their strength. A large portion of America is prepared for them better than they used to be. Using that as a disastrous outcome of any action is really pathetic (akin to the “Don’t say anything about them being terrorists; they might kill someone!” meme).


     
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    henrybowman in reply to Chitragupta. | February 4, 2025 at 10:37 pm

    Yuh.
    The big unasked and unanswered question is:
    “You can bulldoze the wreckage, but how are you going to bulldoze the people?”


     
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    VaGentleman in reply to Chitragupta. | February 4, 2025 at 11:39 pm

    Correct, no one wants the Palestinians, but they continue to support them. Maybe, just maybe, the threat of having to take them will cause some to reconsider supporting them. Then, just maybe, we can move ahead.


     
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    jakebizlaw in reply to Chitragupta. | February 5, 2025 at 1:09 am

    Since the Pallies want to be refugees and have passed that status on for generations, let them be refugees.


       
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      Virginia42 in reply to jakebizlaw. | February 5, 2025 at 8:49 am

      It was also the policy of various Arab governments not to let them gain citizenship and assimilate–they wanted an endless supply of displaced, angry people they could encourage to acts of terrorism against Israel (or regimes they didn’t like). Jordan nearly lost control of their government in the 70s over this. Lebanon was basically taken over by the PLO and Syrians until 82. Now times have changed, but the Paleos are so used to being some sort of “special” group (that wants to eliminate Israel and live there) that nobody knows how (or wants to) fix it.


     
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    irishgladiator63 in reply to Chitragupta. | February 5, 2025 at 1:30 am

    Move them to El Salvador?


 
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amatuerwrangler | February 4, 2025 at 9:33 pm

Bad idea. The inhabitants of Gaza are immune to civilization. It will end up like public, subsidized housing in any blue city you choose to look at. It looks great up until you cut the ribbon and let the residents in. It’s all downhill from there. You end up with a slum in no time.

Rather than act like it’s a done deal, let it happen. What if everyday Palestinians could decide? What if the Arab states and others foot the bill? Not too keen on US ownership, but what a great neighbor.

There is no question that something, not a return, needs to happen. But the full Trump vision, have not people learned how he communicates? It’s the start of a real conversation that is long overdue.

Imagine if Harris had won.


 
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JohnSmith100 | February 4, 2025 at 9:53 pm

I think this has great promise. Now how about cleaning out the West Bank? Then move Jews from Europe and other places to Palestine. I can see a great cilivation and ally coming from this.


 
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OwenKellogg-Engineer | February 4, 2025 at 9:59 pm

…dufunding…
Autoincorrect strikes again

I would like to learn more about the total vision for this approach, who (if anyone) will partner with us, and how this will be financed.

    Just a thought – what if this is a ploy by Trump to inspire Palestinians to elect and follow normal leadership that isn’t terror-loving or Jew-hating? No homeland or normalcy…the choice is crystallized.


     
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    moonmoth in reply to Leslie Eastman. | February 4, 2025 at 11:45 pm

    Do you really think that any other country wants to be party to this criminal plan?


       
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      Milhouse in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 1:14 am

      There’s nothing criminal about it. What laws would it violate, and whose laws are those? But no other country would agree to take them in, because they’re all either actual terrorists or would-be terrorists. Every one of them from the age of five up.


         
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        moonmoth in reply to Milhouse. | February 5, 2025 at 7:40 am

        Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity. But silly me — to LI regulars, Palestinians are just vermin to be driven out or extrminated.

        You have (most of you) gone insane in this echo chamber.


           
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          Milhouse in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 8:16 am

          First of all, no it is not a crime. Against “humanity” or anyone else.

          Second, there are NO laws that bind the USA. It is impossible for the USA to commit a “crime”.

          Third, the so-called “Palestinians” are occupying land that does not belong to them, and their entire purpose of existence is to wipe out the Jews. Every single inhabitant of Gaza who is over 5 years old is a dedicated Nazi, and most are uncurable. Forcibly resettling them somewhere that is willing to take them in would NOT be a crime, it would be justice. But there is no place willing to take them, because everyone knows they would only cause violence and crime, and threaten the government of whoever took them in.


           
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          GWB in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 9:08 am

          OK, this goes way beyond your normal concern trolling, into Idiocracy territory.


           
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          TopSecret in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 2:47 pm

          Gaza needs to be cleaned. No one’s saying to exterminate the residents but we need to get rid of their terrorist leanings and make them accept civilization.


           
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          steves59 in reply to moonmoth. | February 5, 2025 at 9:24 pm

          “Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity. But silly me — to LI regulars, Palestinians are just vermin to be driven out or extrminated.

          You have (most of you) gone insane in this echo chamber.”

          You’ve now become just a caricature of a troll. Pathetic.
          You really do need to find a new home.


 
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slagothar | February 4, 2025 at 10:12 pm

What is the alternative? Have a truce so they can rearm and repeat? Something different needs to be done; Gaza lost the war; FAFO.


     
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    henrybowman in reply to slagothar. | February 5, 2025 at 10:49 am

    People keep posting that. A couple weeks ago, you were all posting that Hamas WON the war because Trump made Israel give them all their terrorists back. Which is it? I have to say I’m having a problem reconciling these two situations.

    Or is it like the Professor said — “I hope Trump has some condition attached to this giveaway that makes it more palatable?” (words to that effect). Is this Trump’s idea of the bill coming due?


 
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TargaGTS | February 4, 2025 at 10:23 pm

C’mon folks, we’re better than this. This is NOT Trump telling the world he’s taking over Gaza. This is Trump telling the Arab states – particularly Jordan, Egypt and The Kingdom – that they better take the first deal he offered them (the one where they accommodate a couple millions Gazans), or this is the deal they’re getting, an exodus of Gazans enabled by US troops.


     
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    Danny in reply to TargaGTS. | February 5, 2025 at 2:22 am

    Exactly.

    “Take Trump seriously but not literally”.

    Remember when the Saturday tariffs threatened to eliminate our economy then it turned out Trump was trying to and succeeding at getting important concessions?

    I do.


 
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Whitewall | February 4, 2025 at 10:24 pm

I hope this is just words to get in the ear of the Arab world and entice them to begin to look at things differently. I do hope so, otherwise, Hell no.


 
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henrybowman | February 4, 2025 at 10:46 pm

This is “nation building.”
This is “exporting democracy.”
This is all the thing people who end up starting wars claim they were trying to do..
Which should we spend American money on pacifying — Gaza, or Garfield Boulevard?

The French has a foreign legion, why not the US? We could offer amnesty to MS 13 gang members who agree to serve for 13 months in Gaza.


     
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    diver64 in reply to Paula. | February 5, 2025 at 5:22 am

    Actually not a bad idea although I don’t think MS13 is the way to go as there is already some gangs making problems in the military. I propose changing the laws so that US Territories do not equal citizenship. All aid and other benefits still apply but for US citizenship all males must serve an enlistment, all female some sort of civic duty for the same period. Many serve already, I had a number of guys from P.R., Guam etc in my unit so it wouldn’t be a hardship but would include every other one. This is already done for non citizens around the world. If they serve they can be naturalized US Citizens. 10,000 or so do it every year.


 
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inspectorudy | February 4, 2025 at 10:58 pm

If this was anyone but Trump I would say he is insane but it is Trump and you can bet there is a lot more to this than allowing the savages back into Gaza. First, you have to clear it of tunnels, unexploded ordinance, and hazardous chemicals, and rebuild all the systems needed to build with such as sewer, water, and electricity. In the meantime, where are the Palis going to live? That is part of the plan because they will have lived somewhere else if it takes four years to rebuild. Don’t sell DJT short.

With all that’s been happening it’s hard me to tell if Trump is serious about taking over Gaza or if this is a another case of demanding something outrageous to lead into his real goal.


 
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Milhouse | February 4, 2025 at 11:25 pm

I’m totally opposed to this, for the following reason: If this happens it’s inevitable that US servicemen will be killed. And when that happens, public opinion will blame Israel, and turn against it.

That’s why Israel has always refused US offers to station peacekeepers in the Golan or places like that. It has always been afraid of putting US personnel in danger, because it doesn’t want the perception that “they died to defend Israel”.


     
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    Paula in reply to Milhouse. | February 4, 2025 at 11:36 pm

    I would like to see some Arab country like Saudi Arabia take the lead on something like this.


       
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      diver64 in reply to Paula. | February 5, 2025 at 5:24 am

      A number of Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordon are already drawing closer to Israel. I agree, let them take care of it with US oversight. When those Pali terrorists start murdering other Arabs, Israel can sit back and say “see, told ya”.


     
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    txvet2 in reply to Milhouse. | February 5, 2025 at 12:17 am

    If he wants to send Americans to occupy Gaza, he should send his cultists, who are totally incapable of understanding that the man is insane, so that they’re the ones getting their legs blown off, instead of American GIs, who deserve better.


     
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    Hodge in reply to Milhouse. | February 5, 2025 at 1:36 am

    Everyone thinks this is a bad idea… Iran would hate the U.S. having a strong military presence right next door to Israel. The Russians won’t like it. The Chinese won’t like it. Syria? Turkey? Egypt? Iraq?

    Now, take a look at my post about how to negotiate, above. You can’t apply tariffs in this situation. You need some other lever. The surrounding countries don’t want to take the Palestinians. Hmmmm what could you use to make other countries put pressure on them to take the Palestinians?

    Say! What about the threat of a huge American military presence?


       
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      GWB in reply to Hodge. | February 5, 2025 at 9:05 am

      I certainly hope he’s using this as leverage and that it works. Because actually executing this would be very bad, IMO, without conditions that I mention below.


     
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    Danny in reply to Milhouse. | February 5, 2025 at 2:20 am

    I agree with Hodge this is likely Trump’s high stakes leverage to get Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians in order so Israel could finish off Hamas ending the war.


 
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irishgladiator63 | February 5, 2025 at 1:31 am

One thing is for sure. If Trump really does this, he’ll get more than a half assed floating pier built.


 
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Ironclaw | February 5, 2025 at 2:28 am

This smells more like a troll than anything.


 
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ThePrimordialOrderedPair | February 5, 2025 at 3:47 am

Two things:

1) Lebanon used to be the Riviera of the Arab world. That was before the muslims pushed the Christians out (how so many arabs first came to the US, Christians fleeing muslim persecution) and made Lebanon a totally dysfunctional hellhole.

2) Gaza is a gorgeous piece of property. It would be a world class resort area for any civilized people.

Israel tried to give Gaza back to Egypt (who took it in ’48 in their losing war to destroy Israel) in the Camp David Accords but Egypt wanted nothing of it and Carter just killed the idea without even giving it any consideration. Many of the Gazans came from Egypt, as opposed to the arabs in the West bank, many of whom originally identified as Syrian.

    It’s true. Beirut was the Paris of the Mediterranean….in the 1940s But, that was at a time when Lebanon was more than 70% Christian. Today, it’s roughly 40% Christian and an absolute disater. These two things are not unrelated.

    If you look at the other Mega-Urban centers in the Middle East that are active tourist destinations that don’t have big cultural draws (like the Pyramids), these are city-centers that have been built by Kings who enjoy virtually total control. They have the power to demand subservience to that kind of ideal. Spending 4-years of my life living amongst various Islamic populations, I simply don’t believe an embrace of western culture that would allow a destination city to grow in Gaza is possible. If you asked me to pick the Muslim population where something like that is least likely, I would pick Gaza and nothing else is remotely close.


 
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Chewbacca | February 5, 2025 at 4:31 am

This is dumb as hell.


 
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CommoChief | February 5, 2025 at 5:24 am

The idea of turning Gaza into a ‘Mediterranean Dubai’ as a US occupied protectorate seems ….far fetched. There’s gotta be other undisclosed to the public behind the scenes ideas being kicked around at high level diplomacy among the various Regional Nations and the USA. I agree with most of the other comments that this is some sort of negotiation tactic b/c this sort of adventurism is totally out of character for Trump’s historical position and would be anathema to most of the center/right populists who voted him into office.

This has to be a deep fake. Trump is a poker player. There is absolutely no way he’s going to put American troops in harm’s way. And for Gaza?


 
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RepublicanRJL | February 5, 2025 at 6:47 am

Please tell me Trump is playing 4-D chess or I just ate some funny mushrooms?


 
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MoeHowardwasright | February 5, 2025 at 6:47 am

The UN has perpetuated the farce of “refugee” status for almost 80 years. Tell the UN to resettle them immediately or we kick them out of NY and cutoff our contribution. And then when they comply and move them out we kick them out and cutoff the money anyways.


 
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goddessoftheclassroom | February 5, 2025 at 7:04 am

From “Casablanca”:

Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he’s just another blundering American.

Renault: You mustn’t underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they “blundered” into Berlin in 1918.


     
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    UnCivilServant in reply to goddessoftheclassroom. | February 5, 2025 at 7:29 am

    I admit I never watched the movie, so I can’t speak for the accuracy of the transcription. But no troops got anywhere near Berlin in 1918. The armistice went into effect with the front lines in the same area they’d been for most of the war.


       
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      Johnny Cache in reply to UnCivilServant. | February 5, 2025 at 10:54 am

      They knew that.

      Casablanca was only 24 years removed from the end of the last war against Germany and began filming well into the start of another one. The character is really talking to the audience about setting Germany straight back then, and that they’ll do it again.

      There’s a lot of propaganda in that film, and I’m not saying that as a bad thing, I like the movie. You just have to keep in mind that this was Hollywood during wartime.


 
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tjv1156 | February 5, 2025 at 7:06 am

Another ‘moron’ special. No thought. No analysis. Knows nothing about the issue. If you cult boolickers have’nt figured out this guy is a moron by now, you’re hopeless.


     
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    henrybowman in reply to tjv1156. | February 5, 2025 at 10:56 am

    We’re better at identifying morons than you may imagine. Check to the right of your name.


     
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    TopSecret in reply to tjv1156. | February 5, 2025 at 2:44 pm

    He’s playing 4D chess while you’re playing tic-tac-toe. It’s not surprising that you don’t understand it.


       
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      tjv1156 in reply to TopSecret. | February 5, 2025 at 3:42 pm

      4d chess.hahahahahahahh. Oh he’s soooo far ahead of everybody else. Knows soooooo much. hahahahahahhhah. ‘The moron” thought this harebrained idea up five minutes ago. Clearly not thought out in the slighest.


         
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        TopSecret in reply to tjv1156. | February 5, 2025 at 7:21 pm

        He is ahead of everyone else. Over the weekend everyone thought “oh no, Mexico and Canada are going to impose counter-tariffs and start a trade war” but in fact both caved to Trump and agreed to increase border security as he requested in exchange for delaying the tariffs. He’s negotiating and has the upper hand.


           
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          tjv1156 in reply to TopSecret. | February 6, 2025 at 8:40 am

          wait a second. Hasn’t he told us ( lied to us) a gazillion times that tariffs are an amazing wealth generating tool?
          HUH?
          Oh —that was minutes ago. Eh, he was joiking. LOL
          That’s the problem with Trump’s theory about tariffs. Either tariffs are an inherently good and prosperity-generating policy that enriches America, or they are a threat to get other countries to do as Trump says. Both things can’t be true.

          If the former, then why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico agreed to make a few small changes to how it polices the border? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, Mexico’s president said she would make a few border guards work overtime, so we’ll just forget about that idea.

          If the latter, then tariffs are something to be feared—a stick with which to compel the behavior of other, smaller countries—that comes with some pain for Americans, as Trump admitted in a post on Truth Social over the weekend. But if that’s what they are, and they can be removed as soon as those other countries comply with Trump’s wishes, then it seems like the tariffs were never intended to produce the prosperity that Trump promised.


 
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UnCivilServant | February 5, 2025 at 7:23 am

Don’t do it, this is the stupidest thing you could do in this situation. We do not need to be wasting lives policing a plot full of broken people.


 
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E Howard Hunt | February 5, 2025 at 7:54 am

That headline excited Hunter. He’s rushing over for a lap dance.


 
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Capitalist-Dad | February 5, 2025 at 8:52 am

Not a good idea. Rebuilding this terrorist rathole will not bring peace. Creating housing for Gazans—generations of terrorist lovers steeped victimhood and Jew hatred—will not buy gratitude or peace, but rather the opposite. ZERO American taxpayer dollars should be spent on this, and ZERO American military should risk death assisting Hamas-loving filth. What to do for Gazans can be a problem for wealthy Middle East nations to solve.

Your willingness to puncture conventional thinking
Ummmm, no it isn’t. We’ve done “nation building” all over the place. It hasn’t worked in that part of the world. Ever.
Also, isn’t that precisely what started this whole mess? The “British Mandate of Palestine”? Gaza will just be a smaller “American Mandate of Gaza.”

And, of course, if we run it, will it be just some US-planted gov’t? Or will it end up being a protectorate? Because those people will have a right to come to the US, proper. We have enough Hamasniks here without that little bit of stupid.

If the plan is to put in a US-friendly gov’t, NOT to worship democracy, and to enforce with an iron fist a cultural change for 2 generations, then I’m OK with it. Otherwise it’s just Trump miring us in the ME worse than before.

Turn Guantanamo over to the Paleostinians while we rebuild and annex Gaza and build a new Disneyland there.


 
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Capitalist-Dad | February 5, 2025 at 10:04 am

When this mistake backfires—which it will—leftists will use it as their tried and true anti-war pose to undermine the Trump administration. Leave this area to the Middle East countries, and continue to focus on the brilliant work of dismantling the leftist Deep State so Americans can live free again.


 
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Dolce Far Niente | February 5, 2025 at 12:10 pm

And apparently no one is seeing the smokescreen this idea is throwing up over what Trump is doing within the executive wing of the government.

Good, I say. Set your hair on fire, run in circles and declare Trump is a warmongering moron who wants to annex half the world. When you can pay attention again, you can see what’s actually happened.

How much money has USAID funneled to Hamas and its Jew killing recently?

This is bombastic rhetoric for negotiating purposes by trump.

Its not possible to force 1.5 million gazans into egypt. Egypt gov might be induced to allower leser number such as 150k to resettle into egypt if they already have family in egypt. That’s about it. Egypt border can be used to transfer international development assistance into gaza.

This isn’t Jordan’s problem to solve.


 
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Alex deWynter | February 5, 2025 at 2:04 pm

No country in its right mind is going to take in 1,700 Pali Arabs, nevermind 1,700,000 of them.


 
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CaptTee | February 5, 2025 at 3:29 pm

I am amazed at the number of normally smart people who do not realize that this is a beginning negotiated position. It is the equivalent of saying: “Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, fix your Palestinian problem or I will fix it by turning Gaza into a resort area to provide lots of jobs!”


 
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tjv1156 | February 5, 2025 at 3:57 pm

hey , remember when the cult crowed that ‘the moron ‘ didn’t start any wars?
Well, now ‘the moron’ is threatening to start one without any good reason. So where is the cult? oh riiiiight- it’s a good idea all of a sudden. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

There is nothing in scripture that suggests that the U.S. has reason to involved in that area. The only thing that comes to my mind is the possible strategic posturing to contend with Iran.

On the uptick, it seems as though the US is Israel’s ONLY friend.

I can only wonder what God was thinking when He decided to give his people a land in such a place.

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