U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants his country to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are displaced elsewhere.

“We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,” Trump said at the start of a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump said when asked about the U.S. controlling the territory for an extended period, adding that he is not ruling out sending U.S. troops in to secure Gaza.

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Trump’s comments came hours after he suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory.

“You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location,” Trump said earlier Tuesday.

“I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.”

Trump has previously called on Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries to take in Palestinians temporarily while Gaza is reconstructed after the devastating war between Hamas and Israel, which was paused in January by a ceasefire. Tuesday was the first time he has publicly floated making that resettlement permanent.

  • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    Thank goodness the literal heroes who refused to vote for Harris prevented this.

    So brave. So admirable. So incredibly thoughtful. What foresight.

    • melp@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      You might want to ask the Palestinian journalists who told American voters that it doesn’t matter who is in office. Start with Bisan. I’d love to see you bark up a Palestinian’s tree who lost easily 150 people in* their family. It’s crazy to see people gloat over 800,000 dead people like this.

      • UngodlyAudrey🏳️‍⚧️@beehaw.org
        3·
        1 day ago

        You might want to give a member of a minority currently directly targeted by the regime a little grace, yeah?

        Yes, what’s done is done, and there’s not much point in re-litigating the election at this point. Let’s not turn this into another neverending argument about Gaza, because I guarantee that’s just going to drive a further wedge between all of us.

        • melp@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          24 hours ago

          Screaming at your allies *over brands of genociders isn’t a good way to avoid wedges.

      • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Gloat? Hello? I’m furious. The people who pushed this angle successfully fucked the world up for a bunch of people including themselves.

        They may literally have wiped us out. All of us. They almost certainly doomed millions to die of entirely preventable environmental disasters.

        For what? Hyperbole? Spite? Fucking really?

        • melp@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          Everyone’s angry. 800,000 people are dead. Everyone is mad. Why are 800,000 people dead? Probably isn’t the person’s fault who wanted 800,000 people to not die.

        • melp@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          Yea - I must be illiterate for not wanting to emphasize a working class wedge.

          I must be illiterate for listening to:

          • Seraj (Gazan Journalist)
          • Wally Rashid (Palestinian Journalist)
          • PSL (Palestinian Activism Group)
          • CAIR (Muslim Legal Foundation)
          • Jewish Voices for Peace (Obvious is obvious)
          • Shireen Falasteen (Palestinian Activist)
          • Bisan (Gazan Journalist)
          • Dr. Huassam (may he me saved)
          • Hossam Shbat (Gaza Journalist)
          • Mostafa Jaser (Gaza Journalist)
          • and a number of other Palestinian activists and journalists.

          Yea. Illiterate. That must be it.

          Do you have a list of activists and journalists you read and follow on a daily basis? Care to share?