The president\u2019s Gaza proposal is a signal that old-school, blunt-force US expansionism seems to be back in fashion<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s proposal that the US take ownership of the Gaza Strip, expel and resettle the people there, and turn Gaza into a \u201cRiviera of the Middle East\u201d has outraged Palestinians, shocked the international community and even confused many of his own conservative voters.<\/p>\n
Yet the announcement<\/a> seems like yet another sign that the president, while sometimes distancing<\/a> himself from the neoconservative foreign policies that entangled the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, is willing to pursue<\/a> \u2013 or at least entertain pursuing \u2013 an undisguised US imperialism that has more in common with the expansionism of Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson, the 19th and early-20th century presidents associated with some of American\u2019s most brazen and violent conquests. <\/strong><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president\u2019s Gaza proposal is a signal that old-school, blunt-force US expansionism seems to be back in fashion Donald Trump\u2019s proposal that the US take ownership of the Gaza Strip, expel and resettle the people there, and turn Gaza into a \u201cRiviera of the Middle East\u201d has outraged Palestinians, shocked the international community and even … 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-32629","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\/32629","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=32629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}