The Canadians and the Mexicans are not the only ones humoring the sick crazy bastard that currently holds the title president of the United States. Each new day brings a new horror. Friday and Monday it was the alienation of our closest neighbors and allies, along with the concomitant tanking of the stock market. That got a bandaid put on it, 30 days with no tariffs, and the market chilled out and leveled off.
That left Donald with some time on his hands so he’s decided to do a Trail of Tears number on the Palestinians and move them out of Gaza — and then take the place over as a real estate development project. Has the Great Screenwriter In The Sky dropped acid? Sure seems like it, doesn’t it? New York Times:
President Trump declared on Tuesday that he would seek to permanently displace the entire Palestinian population of Gaza and take over the devastated seaside enclave as a U.S. territory, one of the most brazen ideas that any American leader has advanced in years.
Hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House, Mr. Trump said that all 2 million Palestinians from Gaza should be moved to countries like Egypt and Jordan because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s war with Hamas after the terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Mr. Trump said at an evening news conference. “We’ll own it and be responsible” for disposing of unexploded munitions and rebuilding Gaza into a mecca for jobs and tourism. Sounding like the real estate developer he once was, he vowed to turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
While the president framed the matter as a humanitarian imperative and an economic development opportunity, he effectively reopened a geopolitical Pandora’s box with far-reaching implications for the Middle East. Control over Gaza has been one of the major flash points of the Arab-Israeli conflict going back decades, and the idea of relocating its Palestinian residents recalls an era when Western great powers redrew the maps of the region and moved around populations without regard to local autonomy.
The notion of the United States taking over sovereign territory in the Middle East would be a dramatic reversal for Mr. Trump, who first ran for office in 2016 vowing to extract America from the region following the Iraq war and decried the nation-building of his predecessors. In unveiling the plan, Mr. Trump did not cite any legal authority giving him the right to take over the territory, nor did he address the fact that forcible removal of a population violates international law.
Hamas, which has ruled in Gaza for most of the past two decades and is re-establishing control there now, immediately rejected mass relocation on Tuesday, and Egypt and Jordan have rejected the idea of taking in a large influx of Palestinians, given the fraught history, burden and destabilizing potential. But Mr. Netanyahu, sitting at Mr. Trump’s side in the Oval Office, smiled with satisfaction as the president first outlined his ideas.
“I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza,” Mr. Trump said. “I heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They live like hell. They live like they’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative.”
He suggested that nations in the region could finance the resettlement of Gazans to new places that would provide better living conditions, either as a single territory or as many as a dozen. “It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return,” he said without offering details of what that would entail.
Asked how many Palestinians he had in mind, he said, “all of them,” adding, “I would think that they would be thrilled.” Pressed repeatedly on whether he would force them to go even if they did not want to, Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think they’re going to tell me no.”
I think they’re going to tell Trump to go eff himself, but that’s just me. This is patent absurdity. This is like the relocation of the Cherokee Indians, the Trail of Tears, initiated by Andrew Jackson, who was also a horrible president. But at least the Indians were on this continent, not halfway around the world in the Holy Land.
And of course Benji is humoring the maniac, like everybody else on the planet.
The Israeli prime minister made a point of flattering Mr. Trump, giving him credit for the cease-fire deal brokered last month without mentioning Mr. Biden.
“I think President Trump added great force and powerful leadership to this effort,” Mr. Netanyahu said. He alluded to friction with Mr. Biden, saying that it was important that Israel’s enemies not perceive any differences between his country and the United States. “Occasionally in the last few years, to put it mildly, they saw daylight,” he said.
This is the new abnormal. We have a psych patient in the Oval Office and he is being treated accordingly. And you all remember that Jared Kushner had this all wired a few years back, right? Lasting peace? Because he read 25 books? JFC
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I ain’t so sure Bebe is merely humoring Sphincter Face. I’m sure he is negotiating for his cut of the Gaza Riviera profits!!💰
Perfect nick name for the purse lipped pustule.
I think it was Bibi’s idea in the first place, and he dangled it in front of the Tangerine Toddler like a bunch of shiny keys until he grabbed for it. he knows how to manage Trump.
Hey…that sounds like a great plan. Let Bibi conduct genocide in Arab controlled areas, reducing the area to rubble. Bring in the bulldozers. Rebuild using mob controlled unions. Then bring in your snake oil salesmen sons to run the new hotels and casinos. Then all the Jews in Miami/NY could relocate to the unholy land. If it appears the 7 million arabs living in Israel don’t want to go…well…your mentor had a great solution…the final solution I believe it was once called…er…relocation concentration camps…portals to the perfect afterlife. Why stop with Israel? The whole area is infested with vermin. What could possibly go wrong with such a beautiful perfect fabulous plan?
Obviously, Trump never heard the old saying “better to keep your mouth shut and people think you are stupid then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.“ Trump saying this about Gazza certainly removes all doubt about any suspicions of sanity one might’ve had about him.
How many presidents promised that sending US troops to the Middle East would bring peace to the region? It has only brought more death and turmoil. Only Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, achieved a meaningful peace agreement, between Egypt and Israel.
BTW, “30 days with no tariffs” is not true. The 10% tariff on Chinese goods is in force. Look around your home and see how many things are made in China. They will now be more expensive.
“Bull in china shop” understates yesterday. Today, some White House step back while also lauding it as a stroke of genius: putting something on the table was pushing others to come up with their own ideas. It’s BS in a tinderbox. For me the most egregious element was the satisfied smirk of Netayhou for whom it was win win. And then he had the gall to praise the preening Trump while sticking the stilleto in with “we don’t agree on everything”
To all the Muslims who thought Harris was too pro Israel how do you feel now? You voted for an idiot who is perfectly willing and able to kill millions of people if necessary to cleanse the strip. And all of you felt he would understand and help you more. He says I don’t think they will tell me no. Its all about power and money with trump. Soon you will be strangers in your own land.