President Trump called for the U.S. to "own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

First it was buy Greenland, then make Canada a state. Now Donald Trump wants to own the Gaza Strip.

The President proposed on Tuesday that the U.S. should “own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing 2 million Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

During a wide-ranging press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump laid out a sweeping plan for the U.S. to colonize Gaza and build resorts there. “I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy, but—the Riviera of the Middle East. This could be so magnificent,” Trump said.

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  • chknbwl@lemmy.world
    1·
    21 hours ago

    I think we’re just being pedantic about the word ‘front’ and are actually agreeing? I’m not saying they’re playing 4D chess or that we’re living in a movie, I’m only trying to make a point that they’re attempting to overwhelm the media so that we don’t know which attacks are feigned punches or immediate threats. Obviously they still want to punch the shit out of everything.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      20 hours ago

      so that we don’t know which attacks are feigned punches or immediate threats.

      No, we’re not agreeing, because you still seem to be under the impression, at least from the part I just quoted, that any of this is a feint. It’s not. They’re doing bad things because they want to do bad things. None of it is a feint, all of it is the main attack. Where they win, they win, where they fail they’ll just keep on trying.