U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants his country to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are displaced elsewhere.

“We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,” Trump said at the start of a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump said when asked about the U.S. controlling the territory for an extended period, adding that he is not ruling out sending U.S. troops in to secure Gaza.

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Trump’s comments came hours after he suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory.

“You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location,” Trump said earlier Tuesday.

“I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.”

Trump has previously called on Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries to take in Palestinians temporarily while Gaza is reconstructed after the devastating war between Hamas and Israel, which was paused in January by a ceasefire. Tuesday was the first time he has publicly floated making that resettlement permanent.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    50 minutes ago

    We were in Afganistan for 20 years.

    The second time in Iraq? Basically 15 ish years.

    And we are currently in a situation where Trump is just outright cracking down on the media, way, way more brutally than Bush ever did…

    War can’t be as unpopular if no one ever sees those videos.

    Also … have you talked to a MAGAtard recently?

    They’re way, way fucking more insanely doublethink delusion dedicated to dear leader than any (EDIT: post 9/11 Bush Era) Republican, I wouldn’t be surprises that if something like massive anti war protests happened, or anti war activists organized, Trump would just deputize the proud boys and 3%ers and that kinda shit to just do SA/SS style crackdowns domestically.

    I hope to fucking hell you’re right and I’m wrong.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      I hope to fucking hell you’re right and I’m wrong.

      To be honest I had my own doubts even when I posted that. The IDF have been very thorough in their murder of journalists, so there’s going to be a huge lack of footage (and tiktok is apparently censoring pro-Palestine content).

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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        51 minutes ago

        I typed the comment you replied to having been up for about 24 hours straight, and just forgot a few words.

        I’ll edit it, but what I mean was… Republicans during the post 9/11 Bush era were nowhere near as rabid and reality denying as they are now.

        I know because I come from a family of mostly fundamentalist christians who are uber Rebuplican.

        They’re leagues more insane now, when I was younger I could actually have respectful conversations with them. Now they’re all so toxic, hateful, manipulative, deceitful and duplicitous I’ve had to cut them out of my life, they’re all the way into the QAnon insanity hole.