Israel says Trump’s plan to resettle nearly two million Palestinians from Gaza is ‘still active’

The White House did not deny the plan was still a possibility when asked by The Independent.

“President Trump has long advocated for creative solutions to improve the lives of Palestinians, including allowing them to resettle in a new, beautiful location while Gaza rebuilds,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said.

The comments come ahead of a visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week, where he will meet with Trump to discuss a potential ceasefire with Hamas and the future of Gaza.

Trump first pitched his plan for the United States to “take over” and rebuild Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East” in February, calling the territory a “demolition site” and suggesting that Palestinians would have “no alternative” but to leave.

Rights groups said the plan to move Palestinians en masse in the midst of war amounted to a forcible transfer, and could constitute a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Trump later appeared to back off the plan, telling Fox News host Brian Kilmeade in late February: “I’ll tell you, the way to do it is my plan. I think that’s the plan that really works. But I’m not forcing it. I’m just going to sit back and recommend it.”

But the comments from Israel’s spokesperson suggest the plan may still be on the table.

“President Trump and [White House Middle East negotiator] Steve Witkoff, they are both in former lives property developers, and the international experts have said that to rebuild Gaza from the mess which Hamas created will take 15 to 20 years,” Mencer said.

How are there still nearly two million of them, Jesus Christ. There were that many of them on 10/7! And people will still claim there's a genocide in Gaza. Can't be a genocide if the number doesn't go down, that's Genocide 101.

And this resettlement plan is nonsense. He has three and a half years left in office. He'll golf a couple more times and that'll turn into two years before you know it, and by then it'll be too late to resettle that many people.

Pretty sure Trump will just use them to seed his global private prison/slavery empire: Gitmo, El Salvador, South Sudan, probably a new labor camp in Greenland, etc.

Is tomato picking in their skills set?

[quote] The Prime Minister has praised the idea. It's certainly out-of-the-box thinking,” he added.

It’s been done before, successfully, with over two million people expelled. Czechoslovakia was able to avoid any international punishment. It certainly has prevented Germans from harming Czechs again.

[quote] How are there still nearly two million of them, Jesus Christ.

Yes, R2 really did write this about his fellow human beings.

It sounds insane and wrong but I wonder if it'd mean more stability for the Gazans. It says 60-70% of all buildings in Gaza are damaged or destroyed and an estimated 92% of housing units either destroyed or damaged. And 90% of the population have been displaced, some people many times.

Anyway, about this scheme for mass ethnic cleansing (that is what it is, let's not hide behind anodyne words).

TACO.

I think. And I hope.

r56 My heart very much doesn't bleed for the terrorists. That's the difference between you and me.

*That should have been for the cunt at r6, obviously.

R9 Not even the baby and toddler terrorists?

[quote]Czechoslovakia was able to avoid any international punishment.

r5 That's because those fucking Germans came over during WWII, claiming those areas as their new Lebensraum. Happened in my country as well and they were also rightfully kicked out afterwards. Every morning, I jog on a memorial path that runs along the former barbed wire that divided my city in two. You know, because Hitler and Mussolini suddenly decided my city was theirs now.

Get educated on history first before you start lecturing. No mercy for the aggressor, ever.

[quote] How are there still nearly two million of them, Jesus Christ.

[quote] Yes, R2 really did write this about his fellow human beings.

Exactly, R6.

You are 100% correct in pointing this out.

And just imagine if someone had said the same thing about Jews, during the Holocaust.

The OUTRAGE!!! The TEARS!!!!

Because I guess Jewish lives are so much more important than the lives of those "other people."

The hypocrisy is simply astounding.

[quote]Population of Gaza 2022: 1,997,328 2 million (+3 million in the West Bank).

[quote]In 1950, the population of Gaza was 63,444.

But yeah, totally the same as the Holocaust. 🙄

Your antisemitism is disgusting, r13, but what else is new. You wear that badge proudly by now.

[quote]The OUTRAGE!!! The TEARS!!!!

And the hysteria, in your case. I think you've convinced yourself you're saving the terrorists with these over the top replies on some niche message board. The more affected the reply, the better. Honestly, affect is all you have, but thankfully your kind isn't calling the shots.

[quote] And the hysteria, in your case. I think you've convinced yourself you're saving the terrorists with these over the top replies on some niche message board. The more affected the reply, the better. Honestly, affect is all you have, but thankfully your kind isn't calling the shots.

I'd rather be "my kind," than YOUR KIND (Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, etc.) = the GARBAGE PEOPLE of the world.

You must be so proud, being associated with them.

This is known, in common language, as “ethnic cleansing.”

Israelis and Palestinians are identical identically. Identical.

This just shows both populations have been in that area for millennia.

When only 1% of Jews had been killed by the Nazis, was it genocide yet? Or could did we have to wait until the percentages were much higher before it’s officially genocide?

R15, the vast majority of Palestinians aren't terrorists

Trump voters make shit up to justify their bigotry

And accuse others of being antisemitic while calling other people "Shylocks"

The closer you follow what's going on in Gaza the worse it seems. 82% of Gaza is now under Israeli military control, displacement orders, or both.

Jared gotta have that land for a new resort for billionaires.

Listened to a This American Life podcast this morning, a US doctor who volunteered to work in a hospital in Gaza. What shocked him was seeing children, toddlers, babies with gunshot wounds to the head. Not shrapnel from bombs, gun shots. Imagine the determination, skill, evilness that lines up the crosshairs of a rifle at such a small target and deliberately shoots. When he got back to the US, he contacted other doctors who had volunteered, they all said the same thing. Kids shot in the head. Every day.