Washington (AP)-President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that the Palestinians displaced in Gaza were permanently settled outside the war-torn area and proposed to take the US “ownership” in redeveloping the area.
Trump’s adventurous proposal is sure to cry the next phase of talks to expand the ten ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza.
Stimulating comments came out because this week the talks provoked Gaza’s people with the promise to help Gaza recover after a disastrous conflict over 15 months, with the promise to increase the supply of humanitarian assistance and reconstruction. Now Trump wants to push around 1.8 million people to leave the land that they have called home and claimed to the US, perhaps with American soldiers.
Trump underlined his thinking as he interacted with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, where the two leaders also discussed the delicate ceasefire and hostage deal in the Israeli-Hamas struggle and shared concerns about Iran. .
“I don’t think people should go back,” said Trump. “You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another place. I think it should be a place that is going to make people happy. ,
Trump said the US would owe the Gaza Strip and would redevelop it after the Palestinians are resided elsewhere and would turn the region into “Riviera of the Middle East” in which “people of the world” – including Palestinians – will survive.
“We will ensure that it has become world class,” said Trump. “It will be amazing for people – Palestinians, Palestinians mostly, we are talking.”
Egypt, Jordan and other American colleagues have warned Trump in the mid-end that transferring from Gaza to Palestinians would threaten the Middle East stability, the risk of expanding conflict and a two-state solution by the US and allies The decade long push will be weakened.
Nevertheless, Trump said that Palestinians have “no alternative” but have to leave “big piles of debris”. He said that his top colleagues insisted that the three-to-five-year timeline for the reconstruction of the war-torn area, as placed in a temporary Trus agreement, is not viable.
Last week, both Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan rejected Trump’s call to resume Ghazans.
But Trump said that he believes that Egypt and Jordan – as well as other countries that he did not name – would eventually agree to take into Palestinians.
“You see in decades, it’s death in Gaza,” said Trump. “This has been happening for years. This is all death. If we, permanently, in good homes, where they can be happy and cannot be shot and cannot be killed to kill and what is happening in Gaza, a one to death Can get beautiful areas. ,
Trump also said that he was not deploying American troops to support Gaza’s reconstruction. He implements the “long -term” American ownership of the region’s redevelopment.
“We will do what is necessary,” Trump said about the possibility of deploying American soldiers to fill any security zero.
The White House on the future of Gaza receives the focus between Israel and Hamas as a newborn trus.
Netanyahu is facing competition against Hamas militants in Gaza from his right-wing coalition to end a temporary Truste and a temporary Trus from the battle-fasting Israelis who want the remaining hostages home and 15 months. Want to end the struggle of
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Palestinian Authority and the Arab League in Egypt and Jordan dismissed the plan to transfer Palestinians out of their areas in Gaza and occupied West Bank.
Trump may bet that he can persuade Egypt and Jordan to come around to accept the displaced Palestinians as the US provides Cairo and Amman. Hard-line right-wing members of Netanyahu’s government have adopted calls to take the displaced Palestinians out of Gaza.
“For me, it is unfair to explain to Palestinians that they can return in five years,” told reporters by the Middle East messenger of Trump, Steve Witcoff. “It is just anterior.”
Trump also indicated that he could reconsider an independent Palestinian kingdom, which has been as part of the wide two-state solution of the Israeli-Pilistini conflict for a long time from decades. “Well, a lot of plans change over time,” he told reporters if he is still committed to a plan as he called for a Palestinian state in 2020. “I have died a lot since I left and now come back.”
The arrival of Netanyahu in Washington for the first foreign leaders of Trump’s second term coincides with the popular support of the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister is in the midst of weeks testimony in an ongoing corruption test, which are the centers on the allegations that he exchanged the favor with media mogals and wealthy colleagues. He has reduced the allegations and said that he is a victim of a “witch hunt”.
It is seen with Trump, which is popular in Israel, can help the public distract from testing and promote Netanyahu standing.
Trump said about Netanyahu, “We have the right leader of Israel who has done a very good job.”
Netanyahu also praised Trump’s leadership in attaining hostage and ceasefire deal. Netanyahu said about Trump and his administration, “I will just tell you, I am happy that they are here.”
This is Netanyahu’s first visit outside Israel as the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for him in November, his former Defense Minister and Hamas’s military chief accused of crimes against humanity during the war in Gaza. America does not consider the right of ICC over its citizens or territories.
Netanyahu on Monday met the White House National Security Advisors Mike Waltz and Vitkoff to start a difficult task of brokering the next phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The Israeli leader said that he would send a delegation to Qatar, who is being mediation by the Gulf Arabian country to continue indirect dialogue with Hamas, the first confirmation that those negotiations will continue. Netanyahu also said that he would call his security cabinet to discuss Israel’s demands for the next phase of the ceasefire when he returns to Israel at the end of the week.
Meanwhile, Vistoff said that he was planning to meet Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to meet the next phase in the ceasefire on Thursday in Florida. Qatar and Egypt have worked with Hamas during the entire struggle as prominent intermediaries.
Netanyahu is under intense pressure from the hard-right members of his governing alliance to leave the ceasefire and resume a fight in Gaza to eliminate Hamas. One of the prominent partners of Netanyahu, Bezel Smotrich, vowes to beat the government. If the war is not again taken, a step that can give rise to early elections.
Hamas, who has controlled Gaza since the ceasefire began last month, has said that it will not release the hostages in the second phase without war and Israeli forces. Meanwhile, Netanyahu says that Israel is committed to victory over Hamas and the return of all the hostages caught on October 7, 2023 triggered the war.
The two leaders also discussed Iran’s nuclear program. Prior to his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump signed an executive order that he would increase economic pressure on Iran.
“We are not going to allow them to keep nuclear weapons,” Trump said.