Recently, in a 20-minute press conference aboard Air Force One, President Trump voiced his desire to ‘clean out Gaza’ and have Jordan, Egypt, and other Arab nations take in the 1.5 million Palestinians with the intent to rebuild the Strip.
President Trump told the reporters, “I’d like Egypt to take people, and I’d like Jordan to take people—you’re talking about probably a million and a half people—and we just clean out that whole [area]. It’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything is demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab Nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
Trump’s vision for Gaza also emphasizes the eradication of Hamas—which is critically important.
The President noted that he sees Gaza as a “phenomenal location on the sea with the best weather [and] where beautiful things could be done.” He is right. The Palestinians could have achieved that themselves, but instead, they voted for Hamas to rule over them and the Gaza Strip. Once in leadership, the terrorist organization then squandered billions of dollars of international money. Rather than creating infrastructure to benefit their people (they could have created a Singapore on the Mediterranean), they used the money to build a massive tunnel network. Hamas turned the Strip into one of the largest terrorist playgrounds in the entire world — all with the intention to bring about the destruction of Israel.
President Trump has a different plan moving forward.
One thing is for sure: there is not much to return to for the Gazan people. How do you rebuild? As Trump said, much of Gaza is a demolition site.
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