Gaza today is a wasteland of devastation. There is no way Palestinians would like to live there except for reasons for self-determination. And, except Hamas, none of the Arab powers need to have Palestinians there.
If two million Gazas just leave, it certainly will solve the problem. So, what should we do? President Trump came up with a simple answer, a simple solution.
Move 2 million out of Gaza forever. But where? And how? And who will take them? not clear. Nitwitt's ideas.
Who will move them and give them heavy lifting? US military on dangerous missions? Hamas is well armed and fatal. Does Trump hope that Hamas fighters will be armed with Sinai and disappear?
And who will fund the Gaza landfill? Who else? Of course, the US probably saved money by paying back the USAID and the Department of Education. There's nothing like America.
In Trump's fantasy, Gaza becomes a travel destination for people from around the world, Barhalla in the Middle East. The coastline is studded with hotels, presumably owned by Elon Musk. The Gaza Riviera allows Trump's oligarch friends to moor their yachts while sunbathing in the Mediterranean.
The idea was so bad that the White House dialed it right away. White House Press Director Caroline Leavitt released Trump's statement that the US “owns” Gaza. It is listed.
Certainly not. It has too much American blood and treasure to waste the Palestinians. But how do you own Gaza without paying it? Maybe with an Arab consortium? It's as easy as getting Mexico to pay for a wall.
Additionally, the move would eliminate the possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. It would abolish Abraham's agreement, the result of Trump's first foreign policy. It undermines the Egyptian-Israel and Jordan-Israel peace treaties, two pillars of wisdom in US Middle Eastern policy. And when we have them on our hind legs, we recreate the Iranian Ayatollah.
Trump seems to have forgotten that destroying American adventures abroad is a major theme in the American First Magazine version. It's a fairy tale of Grimm.
Certainly, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians requires new ideas and the war in Gaza seems cumbersome, but Trump's proposal is such a dangerous idea that comes from the US president. Other than that, Benjamin Netanyahu might be immediately rejected as a non-starter, smirked as Trump blurred it.
Similarly, Trump's proposal to promote ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip. American? Ethnic cleansing? Pure madness!
The president argues that world leaders and even people in the region support such a plan. garbage. Saudi Arabia A statement has been issuedreaffirmed support for the two states' solutions shortly after Trump appeared in Netanyahu. Egypt and Jordan have completely refused to transfer Palestinians to their territory. No one wants them. But Trump claims that “people” support his plan, and perhaps the same “people” who told him he had won the 2020 election.
Ethnic cleansing and neocolonialism were not American policies that were not our policies in the Middle East. It's not who we are.
After enduring months of pain and suffering, could the Palestinians be willing to leave Gaza and live somewhere else? perhaps. But the practicality is where it is. For beginners in foreign affairs, this may sound reasonable. But in Macbeth's words, it is “the dagger of the heart, a false creation.”
Gaza may be a bombed bunker, but it's unlikely that Palestinians would be willing to evacuate again. Gaza is where they cling to Palestine with their claws. Perhaps if Trump wants to relocate Gaza-Palestinians, he will provide them with a moving package, just like CIA workers.
But what if they refuse? He must forcefully order the US troops to do so. And what will he do if a US officer refuses to comply with it because it is illegal and a crime against humanity? Will Defense Secretary Pete Hegses be in the case? If he settles down, Heggs will know what to do. Court-martial.
Or ask Pam Bondi to indict them. She said She wants to be proud of Trump. Either way, he will be in the place he wants, at the Supreme Court, where he will accurately acquire unwilling officers.
What's so unacceptable about Trump's proposal is to undermine everything he says he wants to achieve in the Middle East. It is the stability and normalization of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
Trump is an avid peeler and there are good ways to move forward with it. But this is a destructive riot. It is on the wall and off the wall. It's not outside the box, it's thinking about the outside of the brain.
If Trump fails to undermine his own credibility in just one press conference, he certainly undermined that in his country.
Author and legal analyst James D. Gillin is a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. He is also a host of public TV talk shows and podcasts. Conversation with Jim Jillin.
