President Trump said on Thursday that he wants the US to “take” Gaza and turn it into a “freedom zone,” signaling he hasn’t given up on his idea for a US takeover of the territory.
The president made the comments during a meeting with business leaders in Qatar before heading to the UAE later in the day.
“I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good: Make it a freedom zone. Let the United States get involved, and make it just a freedom zone,” the president said.
“I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone, let some good things happen. Put people in homes where they can be safe, and Hamas is going to have to be dealt with,” he added.

Trump first called for a US takeover of the Gaza Strip back in February, and has said it could be turned into the “Riviera” of the Middle East. Based on his previous comments, his vision would require the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, which he has framed as voluntary.
The president has said that Palestinians could no longer live in Gaza due to the vast destruction Israel has inflicted on the territory. “I have aerial shots where, I mean, there’s practically no building standing. It’s not like you’re trying to save something. There’s no building. People are living under the rubble of buildings that collapsed, which is not acceptable,” he said on Thursday.
Israel’s plans for escalation in Gaza would involve demolishing any remaining buildings in the Strip and “concentrating” the civilian population in Gaza into a tiny area in the south and pressuring them to leave, though it’s unclear if any countries are willing to take a large number of Palestinian refugees.
According to a report from NBC News, Trump is frustrated with Israel’s plans to escalate in Gaza because he sees it “at odds with his plan for rebuilding there.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be taking the idea of a US takeover of Gaza seriously. According to Israeli media, Netanyahu recently told a Knesset committee that the ethnic cleansing of Gaza was “inevitable” but that he wasn’t discussing the idea of Jewish settlements at the moment because the US wants the territory.
Limor Son Har-Melech, an Israeli MK and member of the Jewish Power Party, suggested American Jews could move to Gaza. “Bring the Jews from the United States, this way we’ll hit two birds with one stone,” he said.
Despicable people, Trump and the Israelis. Wasn’t he just bitching about “nation builders” from a teleprompter yesterday?
“Trumpty Dumpty sat on a wall…. Trumpty Dumpty had a great fall!…. “
That's why I did not believe one word he uttered. Yet the buzz all around was about trump having changed course to real world peace.
So what becomes of the Palestinians who live there? How about sending them to Florida?
They are Arabs, they speak, read, and write Arabic, they are Muslims, their prophet is Muhammad. A Palestinian Muslim can apply for citizenship in Saudi Arabia, a Christian Palestinian can never gain citizenship in Saudi Arabia, it is forbidden.
How about the Islamic Republic of Iran, who supports Hamas and other terrorist groups, arms them, trains them, and they are both Islamic movements???
As of the end of June 2024, a total of 122.6 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, and violence.
"So what becomes of the Palestinians who live there?"— Hamas should have thought of that before they deliberately invited Israel into Gaza on Oct 7th by way of massacring Israels.
I don’t want to see Gaza ethnically cleansed, but if it is I do hope that north Florida gets a bunch of Palestinian immigrants.
" hope that north Florida gets a bunch of Palestinians" Not with trump in charge. LOL.
Trump won't allow them in. He is already cleansing as many as he can out of the USA and replaced them with white African Amerikaners.
Florida, you mean the place where for multiple decades retiring northeastern Jewish-Americans, some of them holders of Israeli passports, have in actual fact made Aliyah to? West Palm Beach is the actual Promised Land.
Yep and same state that voted for trump twice. It is their reward for their voting.
People voted against Hillary, Biden and Kamala.
Approximately 3.1% of Florida's population is Jewish. This translates to roughly 672,465 Jewish individuals in the state.
Most of that seems to be in south Florida, but not all. Here in Gainesville we have a substantial Jewish community presence (my daughter does maintenance work at several area churches, including a local Reform temple).
Most of that seems to be in south Florida, but not all. Here in Gainesville we have a substantial Jewish community presence (my daughter does maintenance work at several area churches, including a local Reform temple).
Almost none were born in FL, they chose to migrate there over Israel. MILLIONS of Jewish-Americans from the NE United States have relocated to FL over the past several decades. By any measure that’s been a more successful migration recruitment than to Israel. Why is that..?
You concern for the Palestinians seems to only be an issue with you as something to use to bitch about Trump. Otherwise, you have no problem with Israel hunting down Hamas and killing those
innocent noncombatantshuman shields.I have no problem with hunting down Hamas, that is true. I said more that once when Israel gets their citizens back, Israel should leave Gaza and seal the border for real this time.
And you have said more than once that you have no problem with those innocent noncombatants being killed during the "hunt".
Noncombatants get killed in all wars. That is why wars are bad. Hamas built their forts under civilians buildings, Hamas fires at the IDF from apartments and Hamas troops freely mingle with civilians. Like it or not, you can not kill Hamas troops without killings civilians.
You don't seem to have a problem with civilians deaths either because I have yet to see you called for Hamas to surrender and end this war. You have to know that everyday the war continues more civilians will die.
Hamas is willing to trade deaths of Palestinians for good press. Are you?
Yes, back to the human shield excuse. Never mind the complete disregard for any attempt at lessening the killing of those innocent noncombatants. I could go over the numbers and the terroristic rules of engagement again, but you'd just revert back to some other stupid ass talking point that makes Israel's over the top barbarity justified.
And yes of course, me not calling for Hamas' surrender means I must want the
warslaughter to continue. Good one. I notice that is used anytime someone can no longer justify what Israel is doing. Put it this way, if Hamas was doing to Israel, what Israel is doing to Gaza, I'd be bitching and screaming about Hamas just as loudly as I bitch about Israel. And what's sickening is so would you. Think about that asshole.How about sending NetanHitler to Antarctica?
Well Trump wants to re-open Alcatraz. Mr Netanyahu would be the perfect first occupant
You cannot populate a thriving society with Gazans because their youth have been brainwashed since the 2006 takeover by Hamas. Too much intermarriage has made many of them low IQ. Did Trump even say that Gazans would be welcome back to a newly rebuilt Gaza?
So, you're a product of "intermarriage".
My parents were double third cousins. That makes me my own fifth cousin. The separation is plenty to prevent degeneration. I am, what in the horse business would be called, ‘a thoroughbred’. My parents and siblings all have exceptionally high IQs and are successful in life. In the US, which has long known about the dangers of inbreeding, first cousin marriage is OK but can’t be repeated for several generations. I’m from an area where, for two hundred years, five families dominated and almost no ‘outsiders’ came in until the 1960s. I have enough cousins they could ‘thump you to death’; as the expression goes. There is very little ‘cousin marriage’ nowadays where I come from; times have changed for them but not for Arabs. Cousin marriage is deeply ingrained in the culture. Originally used to keep the tribe pure. Too many studies have shown that repeatedly having offspring with close family members will lower IQ, absolutely. I have no animus toward Palestinian people just as I have no animus against tigers but I know danger when I see it and take precautions. There are reasons other Arab countries won’t take Palestinians though it looks like Libya may welcome a million persons.
My comment was sarcasm you moron. I made it because you sounded like you have a very low IQ based on your dumb ass comment.
My IQ was tested at 183 at age 5 but now I’m much older it is down to 163 but if that make me a moron, how do you have enough brainpower not to drool all the time? Oh, maybe you do.
And I was tested at age 4 and I had an IQ of 184. See ow easy that is? And judging by that butchered comment, I have serious doubt your IQ is higher than room temperature. And that would be a room without heat in a house on the shady side of an iceberg.
Heh … losers! I marched out of my momma’s womb holding a certificate announcing that my IQ was 1,000+, then jumped on a horse and rode off to conquer Greenland before lunch so I could have the prime rib at my Nobel Peace Prize reception!
So why are you interacting with a moron? Why don’t you challenge someone of your own intellectual stature?
No one qualifies. Except Knapp apparently.
Wow! Many Palestinians have 10 times higher IQ than many Americans.
Thank for agreeing that they are ‘mostly’ around 87 IQ. They’ve been tested; we know.
Imagine if someone wrote that comment about Israelis.
"Did Trump even say that Gazans would be welcome back to a newly rebuilt Gaza?" —- While you have a point, it will take decades to clean up the toxic waste, build modern infrastructure, and replace all the dwellings in Gaza, and by then the population at the current rate will have doubled or be significantly higher.
I heard some references that the evacuation was ‘temporary’ and that residents would be welcomed back but haven’t heard that mentioned afterwards or since. Libya may take 1 million ‘temporarily’ but few Arab countries are wanting to resettle Palestinians because of the experience Jordan had before expelling them for fomenting revolution. Personally, I would give the Palestinian people more land along the Sinai border region to build a city to live in while waiting for the rehabilitation of Gaza. Certainly those ‘reluctant’ Arab countries would finance the project to keep Palestinian refugee out of their own countries.
Jimmy Dore, George Galloway and some others seem to have been taken in by the Trump speech to his Gulf buddies against neocons, i.e. the ones he's hired for every important foreign policy position now in two non-consecutive terms. The neocons are to a person rabid Zionists and their goals for the Middle East are identical to the Israeli "Yinon plan." Trump is owned by Zionist money, and even though in his last term (of presidency and life) he's going down with the ship.
Trump stating that everyone can make nice-nice in the Middle East if everyone just lets Israel genocide the neighbors and control the region through military dictatorships and pseudo-jihadists on the American taxpayer tab is not exactly John Lennon.
Dore can be forgiven for not knowing that the Saudis and Israelis have long been on the same team, both in rabid opposition to Arab humanist socialist parties, with tolerance and development always threatening to break out. Galloway has no such excuse, too many on the left have been trying to put lipstick on the pigs of Trump ramblings and Iranian cowering on the ground, waiting for its turn to get kicked.
It seems everyone including Trump – who to his credit ran on this against trigger-happy Hillary – has agreed that those damn neocons ruined everything, but no one ever is or was one. It's something like when Democrats dumped the word 'liberal,' there had never been any liberals in the US, no one had ever met one, although there are some new people called 'progressives' who someone managed to end up to the right of liberals. I miss liberals. Neocons? You can't notice them any longer because you're in a bath of them.
I really like Dore’s show sometimes, other times, not so much, but everyone must remember that he is making a living. The online show serves to promote the live gigs and I think he’d like to maintain a bipartisan audience. Aside from that, Dore and others (like Greenwald) are attempting to be influential “Trump whisperers” to praise him toward positions they support.
But Trump is an actor, likewise his crew. (The same for preceding presidents and administrations, maybe Kennedy was our last legitimate president?)
Remember how Europe was chastised for limiting free speech, (and everyone was like, “hell yeah!”) and then Trump started deporting or punishing people and institutions speaking out against the genocide in Gaza? Trump is telling pretty lies while doing the opposite. It reminds me of how Obama got the peace prize as he entered office, as an aspirational inducement for him to become what was desired; an antiwar president. Well, we see where that ended.
Trump picked the neocons. He is flooded with them in his administration. He is an imperialist, exceptionalist, and supporter of hegemony. It’s obvious when you digest his actions v his words. Like Berletic says, “continuity of government” (agenda). Trump is following the think tank policy scripts while people overdose on hopium.
I agree about JFK. I attended a meeting in NY in early 1963 by some psychic talking about future events and such. It was a pretty large audience. She stopped all of a sudden (can't remember what she talked about) adn said that she jsut got a horrible vison of a world leader being taken down and that this will change the entire world outlook. I get goose bumps as I type it now.
A Freedom Zone for his and his friends' businesses.
Trump and associates are insane perverts. How long can humans absorb US and Israeli political porn?
Not a mention of the ongoing blockade on day 76. But living under buildings that "collapsed" is unacceptable. But hey, Trump is frustrated with Israel's plan to escalate. Someone tell me the difference between Trump and Biden.
Trump wants to take over Gaza and make it his private resort. That is the difference.
A difference without a distinction. Either way, the Palestinians in Gaza were going to either die or be forcefully removed.
That is a huge distinction. Biden never proposed removing Palestinians. You seem to have a hard time accepting that trump is more anti-Palestinians than Biden. Typical trump supporter ignore what trump says and just pretend he is something else.
Once more, 70% of the buildings were destroyed and 90% of the people were displaced under Biden/Harris and there was no end in sight. On Oct 13 before the election, Biden demanded that Israel allow 350 trucks of aid into Gaza within 30 days. Not that they IMMEDIATELY start letting trucks in, they had 30 days to do it. Harris lost the election and Israel ignored Biden's demands and not a damn thing was done about it. Biden/Harris did NOTHING that would leave anyone believe the Palestinians wouldn't have been forcefully removed or killed.
Typical trump supporter ignore what trump says and just pretend he is something else.
Seriously dude? Even the late great Justin Raimondo told me I have TDS. So, if anything, I'm the king of the Trump haters.
We love ya wars! (Though, we hate War.)
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Clearly the most disgusting position Trump has ever had! This alone is reason enough to have him removed from office.
The trump supporters will pretend that trump's position is no different than Biden's.
And those who don't support Trump will say the same because it isn't any different than Biden's. Most of the damage was already done before Trump took office and nothing was in the works that was going to change that. Just more of Biden's pathetic red lines that were never enforced. And Harris, by her own words, was in complete agreement with EVERYTHING Biden did. How else can you judge the two?
Sound reasoning wars!….
… And WTF is that…!? Israelis have other plans…!
America really has got itself a sick sick individual that has besmirched the office of the president. Maybe the overall makeup of American society is sick ?
The way I see it is that the Democrat party was going down a very dangerous Klaus Schwab dictatorial globalist control, so the Americans elected themselves a Napoleon, Hitler or Kim or strong man to fix it all. And close to half actually adore him.
Global control will made by digital tracking, the true purpose of doge.
Yes,. I did not vote for him in 2024 but when I saw the line up during his inauguration and thereafter it was scary. AI guys, digital finance control, something similar to 15 minute cities and other horrors, but MAGA adored him because he stopped guys in girls bathrooms and sports and no more tampons in boy's bathrooms. Not that I approve of that stuff but was not the most important thing with a falling civilization.
The Trump Gaza Freedom Zone will include housing and support facilities for what's left of the Palestinian people.
He would keep enough Palestinians around to mow the grass and keep up the pools.
And every one of them would be more than netanyahu would allow to live
I get it. Trump is kicking the Palestinians out of Gaza to protect them from Netanyahu. LOL.
Oh I missed where Trump said he’s removing the Palestinians from Gaza. Can you please provide a link for that? Thanks!
Yes, you did miss.
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President Trump says a lot of stuff. It's what he actually does that matters. For example, his decision NOT to visit Israel sends a clear message to everybody, especially Bibi. By comparison Joe Robinette Biden's handlers ordered him to Israel a week after October 7 to jump into Netanyahoo's arms.
And what Trump has actually done is to continue Joe Robinette Biden's policy of not doing a damn thing to stop Israel's genocide. NOT visiting Israel hasn't stopped the daily headlines here about the ongoing death and destruction in Gaza. In fact, even Biden didn't allow a TOTAL blockade.
Robinette didn't allow? LOL Good one.
Then even Biden's handlers didn't allow a total blockade. Is that better?
Biden’s handlers allowed Israel to do whatever the hell they wanted. We have no examples of them exerting any kind of restraint on Benjamin Mileikowski’s regime.
Unsurprising, since no one named Benjamin Mileikowski has ever had a regime.
Bibi’s father changed their family name from Mileikowski to Netanyahu when he immigrated to British mandate Palestine. Bibi’s real surname is Mileikowski, which sounds totally alien to the Middle East, which explains why he changed it.
Well, which is it — did his father change the name, or has the name not changed? It’s one or the other.
I’m telling you what his REAL name is. It’s Mileikowski. Don’t shoot the messenger.
His “real” name, from birth, is Netanyahu. That’s just a fact. You want it to be something else, because it being something else is apparently convenient to some point you want to make, but you wanting it to be something else doesn’t magically make it something else.
No doubt but that doesn't change the fact that Trump has allowed the ongoing total blockade, now on day 78, which you conveniently deflected away from. The sham "ceasefire" means nothing now.
Besides, Israel did not give him enough bribes. What other clear message did he send?
Mrs Adelson gave him $300 million. But that was before the election.
With freedom fries.
Idiot.