In an interview that aired Monday, President Trump explicitly said Palestinians would not have the right to return to Gaza under his plan for the US to “take over” the territory.
When asked by Fox News host Brett Baier if the Palestinians would have the right to return to Gaza, Trump said, “No, they wouldn’t because they’re going to have much better housing. In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them.”
The interview was taped on Saturday, and Trump made similar comments the following day while aboard Air Force One. “It’s a big mistake to allow the Palestinians or the people to be living in Gaza to go back yet another time,” he said on Sunday.
Trump’s repeated comments that Palestinians would be removed permanently, which means ethnic cleansing, contradict the White House, which said Palestinians would only be “temporarily relocated” during reconstruction.
In the interview with Baier, Trump insisted he could make a deal with Jordan and Egypt despite the strong opposition from Arab states and Palestinians themselves. “I think I could make a deal with Jordan, I think I could make a deal with Egypt. You know, we give them billions and billions of dollars a year,” he said.
Egypt has announced an emergency Arab summit that will be held on February 27 in response to Trump’s plan. On Sunday, Cairo said that in recent days, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty “made a series of phone calls with several Arab counterparts to mass regional efforts in a bid to thwart the US proposal of displacing the Palestinian people.”
Jordan’s King Abdullah arrived in Washington on Monday and is set to hold a meeting with Trump on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Abdullah plans to tell Trump that his plan “to resettle Palestinians from Gaza in Jordan is a recipe for radicalism that will spread chaos through the Middle East, jeopardize the Kingdom’s peace with Israel, and even threaten the country’s very survival.”
Arab states are all weak, cowards and guilty.
and above all, corrupt
Uh huh. And all you care about is your pathetic materialistic nothing life! Go analyze something a grade school kid understands!
If you know the region, answer this, please:
Why is it 1.8m Palestinians now rather than 2.2m? In Gaza.
Moon of Alabama mentioned this. Did many Palestinians leave somehow?
Yes, somehow, they died.
For the record, I noticed the discrepancy here when the new number was first posted.
I also thought maybe they died, but it seemed people here thought me wrong.
It looks like Trump won’t rebuild. And he won’t remove them. And the Palestinians will just live like animals, tortured and ruined.
It’s the most horrible thing, other than the other states we’ve similarly destroyed…
It looks like Trump won’t rebuild. And he won’t remove them. And the Palestinians will just live like animals, tortured and ruined.
So, now it's on Trump.
I expect he’ll back out.
If I were President, I’d fully exit. There wouldn’t be any aid to Israel and Egypt etc.
And a chain of events would result. It might be good or bad, but the US wouldn’t be involved, and Israel would lose power. Trump won’t allow that to happen.
No matter where we go from here, it’ll be bad.
I think it's a number that may depend on how many people you think the most moral army in the world has slaughtered.
Why hello Mr. Smarty pants. Your teacher should’ve told you, First and last names are capitalized, Tom.
This rhetoric ultimately plays in to the hands of the Palestinian resistance and all of its supporters. Trump thinks he can bully his way into the conflict as a transactionalist. This may work to get concessions out of Egypt and Jordan which are beholden to the US. However, the will of the Palestinians and the people of the region will override any US/Israeli plans. The frankness of the Republicans and right wing in Israel is just the wake up call the people of the MiddleEast need to mobilize against it.
But consider Thucydides story of the Athenian general and the Milesians. A few will be martyrs, but most will chose life howsoever heart-rending.
Islam comports with human dignity. We do not judge those who want to live, and fight another day. Islam prohibits suicide and self destruction. However, there has to be enough of us who are willing to pay the ultimate price so the enemy knows that his oppression, his racism, his murder and his injustice will not stand. Israel and the US will tire out long before they subdue a free people.
"there has to be enough of us" So what are you doing here on the computer in the USA? Go to Gaza and pay the ultimate price.
…thus said the mouse to the lion
Palestinians aren’t treated like humans.
Why is the Gaza number 2.2m —> 1.8m?
Do people here expect a rebuilding? Are Palestinians going to refuse to leave?
Depending on the stamina the Palestinians will wait it out as long as they can. You recover your humanity by fighting and dying for it. It's the human condition (we call it jihad) until victory or martyrdom.
Oh my gosh… I really think they’d be better off moving somewhere else, if only we spent as much on carrots as we do sticks.
Biden can destroy and ruin them. No one much cares, but ethnic cleansing is apparently worse…
Biden can destroy and ruin them. No one much cares, but ethnic cleansing is apparently worse…
So, since you're implying that Biden did worse than ethnic cleansing, then that makes ethnic cleansing acceptable? Do you listen to yourself?
Tell the Israelis to leave somewhere else. Don't you get it, we are over ten million, in and around Palestine. They're about seven million and many are acting on those dual citizenships that they have.
Tension is rising in Gaza and the Middle East as the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement stalls. Hamas is undermining the hopes of the civilian population. President Trump is also worsening the future prospects of Gaza's civilian population. Is the war entering a new stage of horror?
What is he supposed to do?
What does America First look like here? We fully exit, but we cant because Israel is strong in the US. So, we fund Israel, and it continues torturing and ruining the Palestinians?
Everything has been destroyed. A fortune was spent destroying Palestine. People here expect it to be rebuilt?
What is he supposed to do?
Cut off Israel. So simple. And Trump isn't supposed to be beholding to anyone in his second term, so I've been told.
We’re in agreement then, but he *will never do that.*
The inertia is taking us to a bad result. That’s my point. The current path is bad. And the US won’t exit.
But we're not in agreement with ethnic cleansing. It is never right or even the lesser evil of options. If it's allowed to happen, I would hope the fairy tale in the sky is real after all and will have had enough.
I just expect it’s better than the alternative. I didn’t expect them to destroy most of the buildings etc.
I’ll stop talking about it. I just didn’t realise that Israel would go so far.
The Arabs, Levantines whatever, obviously didn’t expect it either.
If anyone cared, and no one should, they’d see me predicting a Palestinian victory early on. I never expected what happened. I didn’t realise cutting off water, food; attacking refugees, routine torture, etc etc was an option.
Israel broke the rules. This sort of political competition is too “real” for me.
"Hamas is undermining the hopes of the civilian population."
Since the ceasefire went into effect on January 19, Israeli forces have killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza, including three who were killed on Sunday while trying to return to their homes near Gaza City. Gaza officials have said Israel has also not let in sufficient aid deliveries into Gaza, including materials needed to provide temporary housing for Palestinians.
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/10/hamas-says-hostage-releases-delayed-due-to-israeli-ceasefire-violations/
Israel has been violating the ceasefire repeatedly killing many Palestinians in Gaza that politicians, the media, and commentators have chosen to ignore. Israel has been the one undermining the whole process and the hopes the civilian population.
What hopes have the Palestinians? Everything is destroyed.
The only thing in ruins is your humanity. You must lead a very wretched life. However, do not fret. In your mind death is just a transition into nothingness, Debauched in life, snuffed out in death.
Haha. I’m not Muslim in any case.
I’m glad you have some fighting spirit, something you believe in.
Exactly, and today Israeli media reported that the army said Hamas was upholding the ceasefire.
" violating the ceasefire repeatedly" Have they? Killing Palestinians who represent a potential danger by getting to close to IDF troops is not violating the ceasefire. What are the troops suppose to do? Go up to the Palestinian holding a bag getting to close to Israel position and ask nicely if the bag contains a bomb?
God, you're sick. Does that apply to the Palestinians? Can they kill anything that moves and say it was a "potential danger"? Of course not. they would be called terrorists.
https://x.com/DravenNoctis/status/1888913351712932292
This means that the Palestinians of Gaza must be removed by force. Who will do that? Israeli soldiers? Our soldiers?
Actually that was answered during his interview. He said that if the hostages ae not released by Saturday all hell will break lose, meaning the cease fire deal is dead and he will send bombs and money and Israel will start bombing the hell out of the Palestinians again.
Maybe we could get god on our side again, again and again???
God is getting a hernia being on so many people's sides.
its a job
I wonder if the residents of LA or the Carolinas, following their respective recent disasters, would gladly sign on for a slightly-used FEMA trailer in a giant parking lot in Nevada or New Mexico and give up their right to return to LA or the Carolinas simply because their FEMA trailer is 'much better housing' than what they have now.
Ask the citizens of Israel if there's a place they could be moved to- with every possible luxury provided- for which they would be willing to give up their land and homes and be forever banned from returning to Israel. If the answer you already know is a big fat NO, why would anyone think the Palestinians of Gaza would have any different reaction?
Excellent analogy.
Also, as I recall, the NObama Republicans swore that Obama was gonna use FEMA to set up concentration camps. Still waiting on the Right to admit they were wrong on that (AND those medical "death panels")
“The Palestinians” aren’t a monolithic group. Some would leave willingly.
Israel just needs to remove those who can reproduce. Take note: The young want job opportunities.
The sad thing is there are so many people there. They need a lot of money to leave and restart. Carrot or stick? The US will spend trillions on bombs, but it won’t spend even $1 trillion paying the Palestinians for their land claims.
1.8 million or 2.2 million (Gaza), they’re owed in the trillions, especially if including all who once lived there and also the West Bank.
With nihilists like you on "our side," its good to know where the fifth column is.
I don’t pretend to really be on your side. I’m on my side.
The truth is not led by men, men are led by the truth. I am on the side of truth wherever it lies.
I’m not a “white ally” or whatever. It’s in my interests for the US to exit, to focus on the US.
It’s in my interests for a variety of things to happen. I’m not important enough to explain myself to you. It just doesn’t matter too much for you to understand me.
You're right it doesn't matter. Muslims and Americans, Russian and Ukrainians, Jews and Arabs, etc. No one has to like the other. All one has to do is show the other fairness and justice. Not to offend the sincere Christians but this is not about wishy, washy-love, why can't we all get along nonsense. Islam is about human dignity and justice. We are all slaves to something; women, sex, power, money, influencers, drugs, etc. The only way to be free is to submit to something that is truly greater than oneself, since we didn't create ourselves. Your posts are dehumanizing to Palestinians because you think they are weak, defeated, a pawn of the almighty West, America or whatever. They could have gone silently into the night like victims of the Shoah but they chose dignity, freedom and life. But that has a price. Why put them down because they are willing to pay that price. We are all going to die. We can't control how and when it will happen but we can control what our state of mind is in in anticipation of that moment. @warsrus:disqus @philadelphialawyer @edward miller @disqus_xswgg5baox:disqus@disqus_jzsk7ljwo3:disqus@unclesapien:disqus@disqus_qhuce9v5do:disqus@disqus_ohiofcav3e:disqus@deganawida:disqus@disqus_zpmj7rv4ch:disqus@robertscheetz:disqus@existentialdread:disqus@disqus_4twxi8wlto:disqus@binber:disqus@disqus_lbkuz0dry6:disqus@disqus_qczqmccbvz:disqus
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ahh,remember when you really 'had' a choice? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dd439b42fb64b36923a52bb00d760bea8ec8eb93e7014efd15a1b4942f8b8001.jpg
So, what will be built first, the resort or the brand spanking new homes for the Palestinians in a location yet to be determined? And what's the time frame? Trump talks as though he's going to be putting up an apartment building instead of housing for 2 million people. But hey there is this:
Trump: “A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening — almost three weeks — in the history of the presidency.”
So, who am I to question "a lot of people"?
A lot of people as of just recently is 53% overall approval ratings for Trump and 70% approval of his Executive Orders.
There is a lot of stuff people like, like they did in Germany and Austria as well in the beginning.
The Democrats are clueless in their fighting back. They are pushing the same stuff they lost on.
This aint germany, this aint 1934, this aint nero,this aint hitler or the antichrist(but realllly close), but a kinda smart guy said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results…Well, we are there, here enjoy! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3938e0fbaa1f11ce0ddea90b33bba76d8117218f6ecaab7d4359b7eabee3def6.jpg
We are the White Rose again!
https://www.weisse-rose-stiftung.de/white-rose-resistance-group/
Literally
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2)arrest
3)conviction
4)bye bye
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Ranting as usual…!
Hopefully the emergency Arab Summit will lead to a peace agreement with Israel, which this was all leading to with the Abraham Accords.
The real players behind all of this seem to be Saudia Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Israel, with Trump going along. Netanhayu benefits by staying in power, SA, UAE and Qatar want to do business with Israel ( including funding many of the violence in Africa, the Kivu, Sudan, and Sahel) and no longer want to take up the Palestinian cause, the real reason Hamas did the Oct 7 raid, to upend what was started with the Abraham Accords
Of course it is not fair to the Palestinian people, but Hamas extremism and Israeli extremism has brought about this intractable situation
Hopefully the Arab Summit will continue what was started by the Sadat-Begin -Carter treaty
Hopefully the emergency Arab Summit will lead to a peace agreement with Israel, which this was all leading to with the Abraham Accords.
Hardly. The Abraham Accords were bribes aimed at shutting the Arabs up and allowing the status quo to continue. If you want to call that "peace", have at it.
Preposterous…! it's like saying no right of return for the Delusional to go back to Mar-a-Lago in January 2029…!
Trump is just another War Criminal of the ilk of Stalin, Hitler. Pol Pot Be absolutely clear he wants one thing the Gas offshore of Gaza.
Plan?? There never was, nor will there ever be – a plan – as long as this urban cowboy wannabe is "making decisions".
There are careful deliberations, and then there is axiomatic ignorance and abject stupidity, backed by a ten-mile high wall of arrogance.
Once again, with only a couple of exceptions, Trump has surrounded himself with a crowd of unqualified government officers, who (by design?) are utterly incapable of comprehending, much less acting intelligently in the face of – reality.