The Israeli-Saudi War in Gaza, Israel, and the Status of the U.S.-Israel-Israel Agreement, as declared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

If the two leaders take this idea seriously in their meeting, and if it becomes a reality, it will almost certainly boost hostility to Israel in the region and kick the hopes of the U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Saudi movement, a goalMr. Trump enthusiastically seeks. The Saudi leadership has joined a number of others in branding the actions of Israel in Gaza a genocide and has become more aggressive in conditioning ties on the creation of a Palestinian state. Aside from being morally reprehensible, a large-scale population transfer of Palestinians would very likely close the door on a three-way U.S.-Israel-Saudi deal for the foreseeable future.

There is a traumatic resonance to the displacement and population transfer in Palestinian memories. This history helps explain the Palestinian determination to remain in the newly devastated territory and the widespread outcry to this relocation proposal and its long-term radicalizing potential.

At the White House, Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Trump and he raised the issue of the U.S. taking ownership of the Gaza Strip.

Trump said that he would own the site and be responsible for the destruction of dangerous unexploded bombs. Get rid of the destroyed buildings by leveling the site. Level it out so that we can create an economic development.

“I would imagine the world people living in Gaza,” said Trump when asked who he wanted to live in. The world’s people. You’ll make that into an international, unbelievable place.

Trump did not rule out the deployment of US troops to support the reconstruction when he spoke about the strip during his press conference.

When it was time to speak, Netanyahu smiled and praised Trump’s work on behalf of Israel. Trump has an idea that Netanyahu thinks is worth paying attention to.

The negotiations over Phase 2 of the agreement between Israel and Hamas are under Netanyahu’s watch. Phase 1 of the deal focused on the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.

Trump officials say that the administration’s focus is on making sure that Phase 1 is completed, and that all of the hostages are returned home. They say Phase 2 would end the war with Hamas and return all remaining Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza.

It’s physically impossible to rebuild Gaza in five years, according to Trump’s envoy, who said reconstructing the area would get complicated. A 10- to 15-year timeline would be more likely, he said, because of the damage to Gaza during the war.

“You have to learn from history. History is – you just can’t let it keep repeating itself. “We have an opportunity to do something exceptional,” Trump said.

Two executive orders were signed on Tuesday in the Middle East. One puts “maximum” pressure on Iran. Trump said he was “torn” about signing it.

“I’m signing this and I’m unhappy to do it but I have not so much choice because we have to be strong and firm,” Trump said, and added that he hopes he doesn’t have to use it.

“It is very simple to me.” Donald Trump denied that Iran could have a nuclear weapon. He said the U.S. has the right to prevent Iran from selling oil to other countries.

Trump: The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and relocate its people. What does it mean? — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells NPR

The other order pulled the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council and cut off aid to the United Nations Relief Works Agency, which is the main group providing aid to Palestinians.

TEL AVIV, Israel — President Trump floated two bombshell ideas Tuesday about Gaza that has Palestinians, Israelis, and the wider Middle East scrambling.

The first: that the U.S. would take over the territory. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip,” Trump said in a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We’ll own it. There is an opportunity for us to do something great. the Riviera of the Middle East.”

“On the day that I will see American soldiers coming in great numbers to Gaza, I will then make up my mind how serious it is,” former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert told NPR. Every party involved except for Israel is against it.

Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli foreign minister, said that it was unrealistic and reflected a lack of understanding of the historical process of where these Palestinians come from. “It’s someone that came from the outer space, and they tried to impose a solution which is detached from a context.”

The tactic known in Israel as “putting in a goat” is a negotiating tactic that is used to lay down a demand for removing it later in order to get a concession.

“This man is an actor in a global theater, and this has been his tactics, playing big, drawing the world’s attention to what he says, getting his rivals out of balance, and eventually something will happen that goes his way,” Ben-Ami said. “Maybe this is a tactical sort of move that tries to say a big thing in order to eventually get a more modest solution.”

Source: Trump says the U.S. will ‘take over’ Gaza and relocate its people. What does it mean?

The Israeli Idea of the “Transfer”: Embedding a Palestinian State into a World Without a Sampling White House

Whether or not it is a viable vision, the once-fringe Israeli idea of “transfer” — expelling or encouraging the emigration of Palestinians to other countries so Israel can take over their land — has quickly moved further into the Israeli mainstream with Trump’s comments in recent weeks about relocating Gazans.

In a poll published Monday, about seven out of ten Israelis supported the idea, with most Jewish Israelis polled calling it a “practical plan that should be pursued.” The Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem conducted a survey to find out if the idea was preferred by most Arabs in Israel.

Hamas said in a statement overnight that they would “pour oil on the fire” if Trump did not withdraw his “irresponsible statements”.

The proposal was also rejected by the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. “We will not allow the rights of our people, for which we have struggled for decades and made great sacrifices to achieve, to be infringed upon,” said Palestinian Authority President President Mahmoud Abbas.

While Saudi Arabia didn’t respond directly to Trump’s comments, hours after the press conference, the country’s Foreign Ministry released a statement, saying that its position on establishing a Palestinian state was “firm and unwavering,” and rejecting attempts to displace the Palestinian people from their land.”

In Gaza City, hundreds of thousands of people displaced during the war have returned to find the city largely destroyed – homes and businesses reduced to rubble, running water and electricity almost non-existent.

He would be ready to live in tents even if there was a place that was a million times better than Gaza, as long as he was certain that life there would be luxurious. “If they come with the army, with military force, I will still never leave.”

Nehad Ghonaim, a surgeon at Kamal Adwan hospital, says he refused to leave the enclave’s north during Israel’s heavy bombardment, and would also refuse Trump’s proposal.

“This is where I am and I will stay even if Trump gives me the best of everything else,” he said, referring to his family’s deaths during the war. He said his children were also killed and remain buried under rubble.

Anas Baba in Gaza City, Gaza, Nuha Musleh in Ramallah, West Bank, Itay Stern in Tel Aviv, Israel, Yanal Jabarin in Jerusalem, Abu Bakr Bashir in London and Ahmed Abuhamda in Cairo contributed to this report.