The president\u2019s appalling threat to seize Gaza and drive out its people imperils global stability, even if he never deploys a single US soldier<\/p>\n
The comments were brazen, swaggering, jaw-dropping, audacious, and, to many, simply outrageous. \u201cStup\u00e9faction mondiale\u201d was how the French paper Lib\u00e9ration responded on Wednesday morning. The sober-sided New York Times contented itself with \u201cimprobable\u201d. A US senator gave voice to what will surely become a drumbeat charge across the Middle East and beyond in the hours and days to come, that what Donald Trump had said about Gaza<\/a> amounted to \u201cethnic cleansing by another name\u201d.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, at the end of his White House meeting with Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump declared that the US should seize control of the Gaza Strip and permanently remove its 2.2 million Palestinian inhabitants to resettlement in places such as Egypt and Jordan. The US would \u201cown it and be responsible\u201d, said Trump. \u201cWe\u2019ll take it over and develop it,\u201d he added. There would be \u201cunlimited numbers of jobs and housing\u201d for \u201cthe people of the area\u201d \u2013 though which people they would be was not specified. Gaza would be turned into \u201cthe Riviera of the Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president\u2019s appalling threat to seize Gaza and drive out its people imperils global stability, even if he never deploys a single US soldier The comments were brazen, swaggering, jaw-dropping, audacious, and, to many, simply outrageous. \u201cStup\u00e9faction mondiale\u201d was how the French paper Lib\u00e9ration responded on Wednesday morning. The sober-sided New York Times contented itself … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}