Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Palestinians reacted with derision and defiance to U.S. President Donald Trump 's Tuesday call for the ethnic cleansing and American takeover of the Gaza Strip. Speaking alongside Israel i Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu —a fugitive from the International Criminal Court—at the White House in Washington, D.C., Trump said the U.S. will 'take over' the strip. 'We'll own it,' he said, adding that U.S.
' 'We have brought our kids up teaching them that they can't leave their home and they can't allow a second Nakba,' she added, referring to the 1947-48 expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians—sometimes via massacres, death march, and other acts of ethnic cleansing—to make way for Jewish settlement in the new state of Israel.
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