Posted on 01/25/2025 8:28:54 PM PST by ransomnote
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.
During a 20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump also said he’s ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. That lifts a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civilian casualties during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza that is now halted by a tenuous ceasefire.
“We released them today,” Trump said of the bombs. “They’ve been waiting for them for a long time.” Asked why he lifted the ban on those bombs, Trump responded, “Because they bought them.”
Trump has built his political career around being unapologetically pro-Israel.
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“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.’”
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Such a drastic displacement of people would openly contradict Palestinian identity and deep connection to Gaza. Still, Trump said the part of the world that encompasses Gaza, has “had many, many conflicts” over centuries. He said resettling “could be temporary or long term.”
“Something has to happen,” Trump said. “But it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there.” He added: “So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
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500k to egypt....but only in the sinai. 500k to iran, 100k to 5 other arab countries.
I would NOT want then in Sinai. Besides, Egypt is a Nile River country (and very little else). 98% of the economy, schools, and public facilities are there.
Or they can go to Libya. It is basically a failed nation run, for much of its area, by a terrorist thug regime. Or better yet to Algeria where the government is a tiny little bit better.
Anyway, Indonesia was a good idea of President Trump, too, as it is the world’s largest Moslem population country.
I would NOT want then in Sinai. Besides, Egypt is a Nile River country (and very little else). 98% of the economy, schools, and public facilities are there.
Or they can go to Libya. It is basically a failed nation run, for much of its area, by a terrorist thug regime. Or better yet to Algeria where the government is a tiny little bit better.
Anyway, Indonesia was a good idea of President Trump, too, as it is the world’s largest Moslem population country.
they’re NOT refugees. they’re repatriats returning to their family homelands
calling them refugees only “legitimizes” the immense amount of funding given to them (much of which is just stolen by their terrorist gang leaders anyway)
While you are at it, move the United Nations to Mogadishu. Let them build their multicultural utopia there.
Trump wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza Strip, send Palestinians to Jordan, Egypt
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/26/Israel-clean-out-Gaza-Egypt-Jordan/3231737904012/
I 100% support this. The UN (the US) and the world is going to be underwriting the Palestinians anyway, so this underwriting can take place in the Sinai, which would give Israel better security.
Let them be relocated to the Sinai. We’re underwriting the housing and their existence anyway.
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