President Trump proposes a plan to have the United States take ownership of the Gaza Strip, displace Palestinians, and redevelop the area. The plan faces criticism for its potential implications for peace in the Middle East and the feasibility of relocating Palestinians.
Armstrong Williams takes on the news of the week and asks the questions you want answered. Don’t miss our weekly town hall.President Donald Trump is doubling down on his position that the U.S. should take ownership of the Gaza Strip and displace the Palestinians living there before redeveloping the territory over a course of years.
“Think of it as a big real estate site, and the United States is going to own it and will slowly, very slowly, we're in no rush, develop it,” Trump said this weekend abord Air Force One. “We're going to bring stability to the Middle East, to a totally war-torn part of the Middle East.”He again told reporters this weekend that he’d like to move all the Palestinians in Gaza to other countries and treat Gaza as an American-owned real estate development. Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier that he’d work with other Middle East countries to build permanent “beautiful communities” for the displaced Palestinians. “I think I could make a deal with Jordan. I think I could make a deal with Egypt. You know, we give them billions and billions of dollars a year,” Trump said.“Think of it as a real estate development for the future,” Trump said. “It would be a beautiful piece of land.”Israel controlled the territory after that, until it withdrew its military forces and its settlements in 2005.Now, following more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza is controlled by Israel’s military. But Hamas still has a presence there.“If you ask members of Netanyahu's far-right coalition, they'll say Israel owns it,” said Gray, a former U.S. ambassador to Tunisia who is now teaching at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. “If you ask Palestinians, they'll say it's Palestinian territory.”that, “Any durable peace will require tangible, irreversible and permanent progress toward the two-state solution, an end to the occupation, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, with Gaza as an integral part.” A UN spokesman also said any forced displacement of the Palestinian people from Gaza, as Trump’s plan would include, “is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.”Though Gray said most of the world would frown on the move. Gray said Israel would benefit from the U.S. taking on the burden of rebuilding Gaza as well as the security presence the Americans could provide.“It would be a negative for U.S. interests to see this plan implemented,” he said.Then, there are challenges with the practical relocation of so many Palestinian people. Egypt's economy is in a “freefall,” Gray said. And Egypt has made it clear that it doesn’t want the Palestinians to relocate there. Jordan also has a fragile economy, and Palestinian relocations there would be very politically destabilizing, Gray said.The U.S. risks damaging relations with all three Middle Eastern countries if it pushes the Palestinian refugees upon them, Gray said. And Gray said Americans aren’t likely to support the likely “incredible” taxpayer costs to rebuild Gaza or the idea of U.S. troops on the ground in the territory.
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