This was the announcement that rocked the world and had all the 'NO NEW WARS/NO AMERICAN TROOPS ON THE GROUND' believers' jaws on the deck in gobsmacked horror.
Bibi and Trump, together at the White House, and a blockbuster announcement that - once the Palestinians had been moved out to new homes in Jordan, Egypt or whoever would take them - Gaza would become the US-owned Riviera of the Middle East
Finally, my life-long dream of vacationing in Gaza seems possible.
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) February 5, 2025
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY - WE CAN REBUILD HIM
Holy crap, didn't people lose their minds. Trump blindsided his staff with the announcement after catching Netanyahu himself off-guard when he broached the last-second idea.
NYT: “he shocked even senior members of his own White House…. Soon before they walked out for their joint news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Trump surprised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel by telling him he planned to announce the Gaza ownership idea.”
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 6, 2025
This man 😂😂
Bibi Netanyahu was all over it afterward - HAY-YULL, yeah, he was sayin'. Move those major pains in our asses O-U-T.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted President Trump’s proposed US takeover of Gaza — and the subsequent relocation of the 2 million Palestinians who live there — as the “first good idea” he’s heard regarding the war-torn region Wednesday.
“The actual idea of allowing first Gazans who want to leave to leave. I mean, what’s wrong with that?” Netanyahu, 75, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
“They can leave, and they can then come back, they can relocate and come back. But you have to rebuild Gaza. If you want to rebuild Gaza you can’t have … this is the first good idea that I’ve heard. It’s a remarkable idea.
“And I think it should be really pursued and examined, pursued and done. I think it will create a different future for everyone.”
Israeli's prime minister was everywhere in the news, talking up the possibilities of the new, improved, and Palestinian-free Gaza - damn near giddy.
The professional congressional Hamas...oh. Sorry. Palestinian lobby spazzed.
That's always entertaining - it doesn't matter why, they're such bloodthirsty freaks of nature.
The best part about this clip is watching how Netanyahu is trying so hard to contain his excitement as Trump says that the Palestinians should leave Gaza and never return
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 5, 2025
The only thing better than it is knowing that Rashida Tlaib is about to spontaneously combust over it https://t.co/zpeE2LortU pic.twitter.com/tpHXaFr7O9
With the onus suddenly transferred to neighboring - and blindsided - Egypt and Jordan to make it all happen by accepting Palestinians they have always been perfectly clear they wanted nothing to do with and had no intention of ever welcoming, Trump got everyone's attention in short order. Calling the bind they now were in a 'worst nightmare' scenario, the two countries began scrambling to find ways out of it. Nobody ever wants the Palestinians - nobody.
International outrage in recent days has focused on Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take “ownership” of Gaza, and that more than two million Palestinians be displaced to allow the territory to be transformed from “a demolition site” into a “riviera” in the Middle East.
In Jordan and Egypt, the demand that both countries accept huge numbers of Palestinians from Gaza – potentially on a permanent basis – has prompted equal concern. Leaders of both countries immediately rejected the proposal, and the Jordanian king, Abdullah II, and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, are heading to Washington in an attempt to convince Trump to change course.
“They are terrified that an Israeli policy of population transfer will actually become real,” said Neil Quilliam, an associate fellow of the Middle East programme at the Chatham House thinktank in London.
Abdullah and Sisi know that they are vulnerable to Trump’s trademark transactional style of geopolitics as their countries’ economies and security depend heavily on huge levels of US aid and trade.
In the meantime, a dismissive press, convinced that Trump had certifiably gone over the edge at last, was having a great time with the idea of a Trump Tower on the Mediterranean. Wags derisively dubbed the project Gaz-A-Lago and fretfully worried about how to survive the next four years of global mortification.
That's kind of snappy, no?
Greenland was breathing a sigh of relief at being ignored for a couple of days.
Israel happily played along, busy making preparations as if the Palestinians of Gaza had tickets to new destinations already in their hot, rocket-launching little hands.
Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza despite international rejection of President Donald Trump’s plan to empty the territory of its population. Egypt has launched a diplomatic blitz behind the scenes against the proposal, warning it would put its peace deal with Israel at risk, officials said.
Trump administration officials have tried to dial back aspects of the proposal after it was widely rejected internationally, saying the relocation of Palestinians would be temporary. But officials have provided few details.
Trump, for his part, kept the pressure on all camps, even while dialing back some aspects of the initial plan. Palestinians vehemently objected, not that anyone was listening.
The United States was going to do this, Trump explained, as none of them had been able to get it done. Now, you can work it out between yourselves how clearing Gaza out for us to go in goes down.
...Egypt has launched a diplomatic blitz behind the scenes against the proposal, warning it would put its peace deal with Israel at risk, officials said.
The Trump administration has already dialed back aspects of the proposal after it was widely rejected internationally, saying the relocation of Palestinians would be temporary. U.S. officials have provided few details about how or when the plan would be carried out.
In a social media post on Thursday, Trump said Israel would turn Gaza over to the United States after the war and that no U.S. soldiers would be needed for his plan to redevelop it.
The Palestinians have vehemently rejected Trump’s proposal, fearing that Israel would never allow refugees to return. Egypt has warned that an expulsion of Palestinians would destabilize the region and undermine its peace treaty with Israel, a cornerstone of stability and American influence for decades.
Saudi Arabia, another key U.S. ally, has also rejected any mass transfer of Palestinians and says it will not normalize relations with Israel — a key goal of the Trump administration — without the creation of a Palestinian state that includes Gaza.
Well, as shocked as anyone listening to the press conference - I did an incredulous Urkel-like version of 'Did he say that?' - with this president, with DIS GUY, it doesn't pay to go off the deep end every time his mouth opens because you'll drown.
The only way to gauge a Trumpism is to hang around for a couple of days and watch what plays out. Let it ride and ripen.
That is, once again, what has happened.
We have gone from a raving lunatic colonial land grab proposal in that third-world snekpit of all snekpits called Gaz-A-Lago to?
Egypt and Jordan crying 'uncle' and going 'Never mind - we'll do it ourselves.'
BOOMITY
GAZA: Trump tells the world the US will take over Gaza and rebuild it. Two days later Egypt and Jordan commit to rebuild Gaza on their own. The Art of the Deal… https://t.co/27OtigXGEm
— @amuse (@amuse) February 7, 2025
God bless the man.
The s**t he swings is incredible, and that's the only word for it.
...Trump has suggested the U.S. take control of Gaza from Israel and create a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere including Egypt and Jordan. But Arab nations want to see a two-state solution with a separate Palestinian homeland alongside Israel.Moving Palestinians would represent "flagrant violation of international law, an infringement on Palestinian rights, a threat to security and stability in the region and an undermining of opportunities for peace and coexistence among its peoples," Egypt's statement said.Rather, Egypt was looking with other Arab nations at how to rebuild and clean up Gaza after Israel's military campaign decimated the strip in response to Palestinian militant group Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack on Israel.Egyptian security sources told Reuters that the nation's presidency, military and intelligence were united in rejecting Trump's plan despite disagreements on how to respond.
Without force, Trump has forced the wealthy Arab states to attend the festering Palestinian pustule in their midst at long last by simply laying down the 'if you don't, I will' marker. Thanks to his first term, they know he means business. Hence their movement.
Between all of them, they could rebuild Gaza several times over, and it would hardly leave a dent in anyone's treasury. Only this time, if they're paying for it, perhaps they'll pay closer attention when the residents want to start another war with Israel to blow all the new buildings up again.
This is also a deterrent - Arab nations having skin in the game that have sat by for too long as Gaza exploded time and again, even harboring the savages' hierarchy while safeguarding their purloined billions.
The Palestinians 'problem' will belong to all of them the second they spend that first petrodollar keeping these rock-chucking, kidnapping, baby-slaughtering, and Jew-hating terrorists conveniently corraled in Gaza.
And it didn't cost the United States anything but a few days of 'Is he crazy? Dear God, there he goes again!' headlines.
Works.
Although I have to admit, Gaz-A-Lago does have kind of a ring to it.
A final solution pic.twitter.com/iMxKS0FIAz
— Anarchotarian (@Anarchotarian) February 7, 2025
In a better world, this will happen.
Schmaybe someday, huh?
