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
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    4 hours 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
      2·
      2 hours 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.

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        many people bear some of the responsibility… this latest escalation is at least in part on those people’s heads

        they thought it was “the same” to have trump who gleefully says “let’s genocide so we can grab it for ourselves” rather than “please don’t”

        • melp@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          54 minutes ago

          I’m not going to hazard a guess on your background and relations but I can say of the 50+ Gazans I follow on the ground… some are dead now. But their friends who survived them and the rest who are miraculously still alive said they didn’t see much of a difference between Biden saying they’re rapists and Trump saying they’re rapists. That’s the Pals I follow. Then there’s the peace orgs I follow - JVP, CAIR, PSL… none of them had much to say about Biden or Trump. They were all about to marked as terrorist orgs under the last administration, anyway. Then there’s the black and brown people I interact with online and in my friend groups. A lot of us agree, myself included, that non-voters shouldn’t have been non-voters and voted Harris but even then most of them tell me it doesn’t really matter to them because this is how it’s always been for them. Who am I to criticize? I’m not in their shoes. At the end of the day yelling at people who didn’t want 800,000 people dead is a wedge argument. The dictatorship is here now. Do we want to yell at white women for wearing bracelets telling black people “they’re safe”? Or can we finally just work together. The reason we’re here is because we truly enjoy these sour lemon flavored wedges.