Author: The New York Times
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 06:29:02
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President Trump proposed moving all Palestinians out of Gaza and making it a U.S. Territory, a brazen idea that met with almost immediate resistance from the Palestinians as well as Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Gaza has been devastated by Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, following the militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The politically explosive offer also appeared to have no takers among the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations. Ally in the Middle East reiterated its support for a Palestinian state and said it would not establish diplomatic ties with Israel without one. Mr. Trump has floated the idea of Palestinians leaving Gaza multiple times in recent days, including a proposal to move them to Egypt and Jordan. That was rejected last week by a broad group of Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia. During Mr. Trump’s first term, the United States brokered the Abraham Accords. Before the war in Gaza began in 2023, Saudi Arabia appeared close to setting up diplomatic relations with Israel without meeting the precondition of a Palestinian state. Saudi statements since then have indicated such a deal is a long way off. President Trump discarded decades of U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East. In a day, Mr. Trump replaced that notion with a completely different idea. Hamas called the idea of relocating close to two million people a recipe for creating chaos and tension. Netanyahu agreed on Monday to send a team to Doha, Qatar. Hamas leadership has insisted they will remain in control of Gaza after the war ends. Logistical questions went unaddressed. Trump has threatened to use military and economic force to return control of the Panama Canal to the United States. He has repeatedly said that Canada should be made America’s 51st state. There has already been strenuous opposition to each of those ideas. The proposal to take over Gaza seemed certain to generate even more controversy. Enclave devastated by 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas could be redeveloped and turned into “the Riviera of the Middle East” Mr. Mansour said Palestinians should be allowed to reclaim what were once Palestinian homes in Israel. He added that Palestinians wanted to rebuild Gaza themselves. A former Republican congressman from Michigan compared Mr. Trump’s proposal to ethnic cleansing. On Saturday, a broad group of Arab nations had rejected an earlier suggestion that Gazans to be moved to Egypt and Jordan. Arab nations said such a plan would risk further expanding the conflict in the Middle East. "Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States," Mr. Awad says. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, appeared to delight in Mr. Trump’s proposal. In Hebrew, next to emojis of the Israeli and American flags, Mr.Smotrich added, "Together, we will make the world great again" Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, said in a statement about the legislation. He called for the United States to “stop using the politically charged term West Bank” opponents of annexation say it is the term Judea and Samaria that reflects a political agenda. Representative Claudia Tenney, another sponsor of the bill, also announced the recent creation of a congressional group. Since Israel seized control of the West Bank, hundreds of thousands Israeli civilians have settled there with both tacit and explicit government approval. The growing number and size of the settlements have steadily eroded the land accessible to Palestinians. In 2019, the previous Trump administration declared that the United States did not consider Israeli settlements in the west Bank illegal, reversing longstanding American policy under Democrats and Republicans. Israel’s far-right finance minister welcomed Mr. Trump’s reversal as an expression of the president’s “deep connection to the Jewish people and our historical right to our land” On Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu called Mr. Smotrich “a lover of Israel” on social media and said, “We must strengthen our grip and sovereignty over the homeland in Judea and Samaria.” Republican support for the settler movement and changes to the language of the discussion surrounding their effort have some pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington worried about Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls. A broad group of Arab nations rejected a suggestion by President Trump to “clean out” Gaza.
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