Donald Trump has suggested large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” the whole strip, after ordering the US military to restart shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel.

The US president said he wanted Gaza residents to move to neighbouring nations, and that they could be displaced “temporarily or could be long-term”, after a phone call with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Saturday.

“I said to him: I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess. I’d like him to take people,” Trump said, when asked about the call.

He also suggested Egypt as a destination for Gaza residents, and said he would raise the issue with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on Sunday.

  • @aarRJaay@lemm.ee
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    252 months ago

    Native Americans suggest Americans should leave, “Just clean out “ the whole country, allow it to be rewilded and return to how it should be.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    32 months ago

    This is a horribly immoral and unjust thing to even suggest. That said, if the only other alternative is that they stay in Gaza and get exterminated by these psychos in Israel, then I have to think that relocation, and living, are the superior option. THAT said, none of the countries he’s talking about are going to take them.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      Honestly. They should, and they should treat them well. We’ve already entered the countdown to Israel’s declaration of war on Jordan and/or Egypt. If they take them then Israel claims militants got out and are being harbored. Oh no! But if they don’t then Israel will claim West Bank militants escaped to whichever country and are being harbored.

      Netanyahu’s refusal to leave Lebanon and Syria along with the uptick in Greater Israel propaganda from ministers makes their 10 year strategic goals pretty clear.

      Edit to add, oops I forgot the conclusion! Lmao. This gives them a motivated and highly available population to arm and send against the IDF when the inevitable happens.

  • Phoenixz
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    92 months ago

    Trump yet again pushing for genocide

    That should have been the header

  • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    Hey, it’ll be OK. If this is what trump is doing, then Kamala would be over there straight up drinking baby blood at this point.

    Edit: Downvote all you want. It’s only slightly more effective than what you voted for in November :P

  • Allah
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    52 months ago

    clean like how? put the garbage and litter in appropriate places?

    • @Doorbook@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      About 15 months with no redline, and 2 months of sige on a refugee camp, more bombs than any other historical events dropped, they couldn’t do it, I don’t think the can do it in 9 months.

  • drthunder
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    Here are my thoughts:

    • Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since day 1, they just pick up the pace sometimes
    • Every US president this century has enabled this
    • Biden and Harris were all on board with the current round of fast genocide and they should be remembered for it
    • Trump pretends to be anti-war but emboldened this shit by moving the US embassy to Jerusalem in 2018 or 19
    • Netanyahu wanted Trump to win, as evidenced by meeting him during the campaign last year
    • Any ceasefire supposedly happening right now is entirely to give Trump good press. He’s going to give Israel even more support for their imperialist bullshit than Biden did and Harris would have
    • Because Trump won, the federal government is going after immigrants, nonwhite people, LGBT people, etc, and is going to further tear the good parts of the government down

    I’m pretty disillusioned with the Democrats between the imperialism and almost completely giving in to the fascist takeover, but I wouldn’t be looking to get out of the country if Harris had won, so thanks for that if you could have voted and didn’t.

    edit: I voted Uncommitted in the primary, helped out at my local Gaza camp, and have gone to rallies and distributed books about Palestine, so I’m not just sitting here at my computer saying all this

  • @taiyang@lemmy.world
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    242 months ago

    You know, given his comments about it being prime real estate, I wouldn’t be surprised if the word “Strip” in the name evokes a sort of Vegas Strip and that’s what Trump is thinking. Nevermind that people fucking live there, to him it’s Jewish Vegas (or Atlantic City if you know Trump’s preferences).

  • شاهد على إبادة
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    The Gazans aren’t going to leave, it is their land. What will Trump do? Biden already destroyed 60% of buildings, 92% of homes, 88% of schools, 68% of cropland, 68% of road networks, while only 50% of hospitals are partially functioning.

    Gazans will rebuild with or without US support. The vast majority of the world recognizes their right to self determination. The US is the odd one here and with Trump at the helm it is increasingly isolated.

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    72 months ago

    Yeah, I’m sure Egypt want 2 million more mouths to feed in the middle of the fucking desert.

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      No, he doesn’t actually want any other countries to take them in. They should just leave their own country… He’d prefer that they simply walk into the Dead Sea so he doesn’t have to think about them anymore.

      • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        42 months ago

        Yeah well see we talked to all the neighbors but they didn’t want them so unfortunately some of them may have gotten in the way when we bulldozed the site ready to lay the foundations for the new condos. /s

      • John Richard
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        Democrats… “Palestinians should return to the rubble & sleep there like dogs! Otherwise, we can’t claim that Trump is the next Hitler!”

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    282 months ago

    Protest voters looking more and more stupid by the day. And will continue to do so every day for the next 4 years minimum.