An incredible moment in history
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza strip...we'll own it.” So said President Donald Trump, reading from a prepared statement with a smirking Benjamin Netanyahu.
So Trump says America will own Gaza, cleanse it of Palestinians, and turn it into an international coastal region — the “Riviera of the Middle East” settled by “international people.”
Does that mean American soldiers — or more likely, private contractors — are going to be the ones pushing Palestinians into shipping containers and sending them by force to Egypt and Jordan? What happens when they refuse? Executions? Guess Trump doesn’t think that America is enough of a party to a genocide…he now wants to get American to doing the dirty work directly.
The scheme is so extreme that it seems to have thrown a big part of the Israel lobby off-guard. I’ve seen prominent activists condemning it. The whole thing seems like another one of Trump’s bluffs…his approach to making deals by throwing out threats and aggressive, unexpected offers.
Do you think he means it? And if he does…will America be able to pull it off?
—Yasha
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"A big beautiful wall, and we'll make the Mexicans pay for it"
Captain Bullshit rides again.
He likes stirring up crap, constantly, to distract everybody from whatever else he's doing - or not doing. He wants every conversation to be about him - that's the Alpha and Omega of him, not as a persona slight I mean, but as his entire business model and raison d'etre. He's like the humanoid version of social-media algorithms that profit out of grabbing eyeballs. Churnover in lackeys and newscycles alike.
On the other side of the pond, it would previously be called flying-a-kite to gauge a reaction - but it's much, much more more than this with him, because if everyone else is constantly being thrown off balance, then by default he's the one on firm ground in the centre of the storm he's unleashing.
Of course it's a bluff. Or another senior moment. Just like Biden the man is likely in the grips of dementia.
I can't see resettlements of Palestinians into Jordan or Egypt going very well. What bribes would allow it.
He backed off his tough tariff nonsense immediately because the market would have had a sad. But wasn't it nice that he was in the news and all the leaders had to call him up and talk? Then they agreed to meaningless conditions to stop the big fentanyl mess.