Trump is right, Palestinians must be relocated out of Gaza

President Donald Trump recently floated an unorthodox idea for peace in the Middle East during a Q and A with reporters on Air Force One, the President proposed resettling the Gazan population temporarily, or perhaps over a longer term, calling the seaside enclave a demolition site. Trump said he’d like to get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change. I’d like Egypt to take people, and I’d like Jordan to take people. The President said, specifically, you’re talking about probably a million and a half people. We just clean out that whole thing. Egyptian and Jordanian officials dismissed this prospect out of hand. Trump later replied that he was adamant regarding the neighboring countries taking displaced Gazans, stating they will do it. We do a lot for them, and they’re going to do it. Set aside for a moment whether these countries might be apt to come around if and when the US offers carrots andor sticks. Consider the merits of a plan unhinged critics predictably panned as ethnic cleansing, notwithstanding that Israel hosts a massive Arab population, in contrast with the Juden Rhine Middle East, from which millions of Jews were uprooted, many fleeing for Israel in actual ethnic cleansing, notwithstanding that Gazans have been trapped there by Israel’s Arab neighbors, and that Israel forcibly removed Jews from Gaza to appease the Arabs there in the first place. First, as Trump notes, large portions of Gaza are shelled out and uninhabitable. Trump’s Middle East envoy predicts it will take 10 to 15 years to rebuild, five years alone just to remove the debris. Second, if you’re going to resettle a population, it’s most humane and reasonable to keep people close by and among those sharing their language and culture, Jordan, it bears noting, is Arab Palestine. It’s also most consistent with international law, which, as scholar Eugene konrovitch asserts, requires neighboring Egypt minimally to receive Palestinian Arab refugees and secure their safe settlement there or elsewhere. Once out of Gaza, the chances of people who need it receiving aid and medical care, rather than Hamas exploiting that support, would likely increase versus what we’ve seen transpire in a war zone. This is to say nothing of the complicity of Egypt and Jordan in preventing plans for a Palestinian state dating back to at least 1947 and preventing Gazans from emigrating during the period from 1948 to 1967 when Arab nations warred on Israel, taking in Palestinian Arabs today would seem just third, internal and external actors, including Egypt, proved unwilling or unable to prevent Gaza from becoming a de facto terrorist state. Gazans elected Hamas after Israel ceded it to the Palestinian Arabs in 2005 some participated in its atrocities on and after October 7 and significant percentages continue to support Hamas at perpetual war against Israel. Just witness the scenes of masses menacing and terrorizing the innocent Israeli civilians on their way out in phase one of the latest hostage for terrorist deal. Is it really reasonable to keep people who in sizeable numbers, wish to inflict a genocide against Israel adjacent to the Jewish state today, or is it likely to produce more October 7? Meanwhile, as kotarovich wrote in The Wall Street Journal last year, noting nearly half of Gazans had previously indicated a desire to leave if they could. Before the war, why would anyone other than Hamas support locking Gazans in like North Korea does since 1948 Arab states and the UN have kept them in a unique intergenerational Limbo to provide a reservoir of resentment against Israel. Letting Gazans leave not only would reduce human suffering, it would provide a test and incentive for post war governance. Refugees often return to their home countries when governance stabilizes after a conflict. For this to happen, the new civilian administration would have to make it a place where Gazans want to live, not where they are prevented from leaving longer term, complex questions remain. Can you de nazify an enclave where Jew hatred and Islamic supremacism predominates, who could read the area that wouldn’t support or look the other way on jihadism as it festers is the Hamas, like Palestinian Authority that engages in paid a slave or terrorist really a legitimate alternative. Would Gazans and Israelis alike prefer some kind of multi nation coalition and Israeli military occupation and what’s best for the lives of those Gazans who would like to live in peace and not under Hamas’ tyranny or that of the aforementioned pa all plans will provoke controversy and dissent, but as the Trump proposal implies in the interim, at minimum, is there a better approach for all parties involved than separation for Peace and some semblance of normalcy, and don’t wars have consequences? Unruh, former head in Jordan, Alexander Galloway, told a group of American church leaders back in 1952 that quote, it is perfectly clear, then the Arab nations do not want to solve the Arab refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to. Against the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die. Today’s Arab leaders have an opportunity to prove Galloway wrong in stepping up to support those they have so long claimed to champion. I.