Give me a break.Cal88 said:
Ethnic cleansing is "smart and practical".
tequila4kapp said:
By the way, I think we just got our answer for why the Netanyahu government would agree to a peace deal that did not eliminate Hamas.
As currently reported, I really do not like this plan. The Palestinians are a society / peoples. You cannot eliminate them. I dispersing them throughout the Middle East. This seems highly untenable.
tequila4kapp said:Give me a break.Cal88 said:
Ethnic cleansing is "smart and practical".
It's practical that if an area is completely destroyed you look for a better area for people to live.
It is practical to discern that Jews and Palestinians will never live side by side - 2 state solution - as long as Palestinians insist that Israel must be removed from the face of the map and all Jews killed.
It is IMpractical to think two nations that expelled Palestinians because they actively worked to undermine the government would ever take them back.
It is IMpractical to ignore the societal / political realities of Jordan and Egypt which make this impossible, namely that they are unstable regimes and their populations overwhelmingly side with the Palestinians.
Anarchistbear said:
Jordan and Egypt aren't about to admit people associated with fundamentalist Muslim. They have their own problems with these groups
Israel has the whip hand now but it's over. Young Israelis are leaving. It is a pariah state. It'll be gone in a decade
A decade?! That's pretty fast.Anarchistbear said:tequila4kapp said:Give me a break.Cal88 said:
Ethnic cleansing is "smart and practical".
It's practical that if an area is completely destroyed you look for a better area for people to live.
It is practical to discern that Jews and Palestinians will never live side by side - 2 state solution - as long as Palestinians insist that Israel must be removed from the face of the map and all Jews killed.
It is IMpractical to think two nations that expelled Palestinians because they actively worked to undermine the government would ever take them back.
It is IMpractical to ignore the societal / political realities of Jordan and Egypt which make this impossible, namely that they are unstable regimes and their populations overwhelmingly side with the Palestinians.
Jordan and Egypt aren't about to admit people associated with fundamentalist Muslim. They have their own problems with these groups
Israel has the whip hand now but it's over. Young Israelis are leaving. It is a pariah state. It'll be gone in a decade
My take - Trump knows this. It is very obvious. This is his way of putting pressure on those countries - particularly Egypt - to move off of their support for Hamas while also sending a message to the Palestinians that they need to be more constructive.tequila4kapp said:
That would be historically mind numbingly dumb. There is zero chance - ZERO - those countries lay down to Trump on this. They'll be overthrown by coup (Jordan) and run out of office at the next election (Egypt) in short order. The Kind of Jordan and leader in Egypt will tell Trump to pound sand and run to Russia / China to get that same aid elsewhere. There are times when some intelligence and nuance are required from a President and this is one of them.
An alternative theoretical approach that is better - though still highly improbable would be to get Jordan or Egypt to sell some unused desert adjacent to a body of water and create a new Palestinian state.
This is even more true with Trump, who says a lot of idiotic and false things. But what has he done, particularly in the Middle East? He was pretty successful in his first term. Time will tell.Dem Election Deniers said:Giving Trump too much credit for having thought of the consequences of the things he says is foolish. In Biden's case it was because his brain was fried and he wasn't actually in charge. In Trump's case, he's not smart enough to think of the consequences of what he says. He just says things and if they happen to be true, it's by accident.BearGoggles said:My take - Trump knows this. It is very obvious. This is his way of putting pressure on those countries - particularly Egypt - to move off of their support for Hamas while also sending a message to the Palestinians that they need to be more constructive.tequila4kapp said:
That would be historically mind numbingly dumb. There is zero chance - ZERO - those countries lay down to Trump on this. They'll be overthrown by coup (Jordan) and run out of office at the next election (Egypt) in short order. The Kind of Jordan and leader in Egypt will tell Trump to pound sand and run to Russia / China to get that same aid elsewhere. There are times when some intelligence and nuance are required from a President and this is one of them.
An alternative theoretical approach that is better - though still highly improbable would be to get Jordan or Egypt to sell some unused desert adjacent to a body of water and create a new Palestinian state.
It is the opposite side of the coin of his putting pressure on Bibi to sign the cease fire agreement. He's working the refs on both sides.
The best way to judge any politician at any rate is to pay far less attention to what they say than what they do.
There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children.
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) January 30, 2025
Call it what it is: GENOCIDE. pic.twitter.com/AiBe4NEHNJ
Inconcievable pic.twitter.com/HdGlq7vN6z
— Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) February 3, 2025
Maybe Hamas shouldn't invaded Israel first. Israel had a huge overreaction, but it wasn't unprovoked.Cal88 said:Inconcievable pic.twitter.com/HdGlq7vN6z
— Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) February 3, 2025
Eastern Oregon Bear said:Maybe Hamas shouldn't invaded Israel first. Israel had a huge overreaction, but it wasn't unprovoked.Cal88 said:Inconcievable pic.twitter.com/HdGlq7vN6z
— Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) February 3, 2025
So you're saying the destruction of Gaza would have happened anyway even if Hamas had stayed inside it's border and not conducted a killing spree in southern Israel?Cal88 said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:Maybe Hamas shouldn't invaded Israel first. Israel had a huge overreaction, but it wasn't unprovoked.Cal88 said:Inconcievable pic.twitter.com/HdGlq7vN6z
— Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) February 3, 2025
At least with some of the more knowledgeable Democrats, you might a bit of a better understanding of this issue vs the Reps who are easily gaslighted by Fox, but with you here it looks pretty hopeless.
Eastern Oregon Bear said:So you're saying the destruction of Gaza would have happened anyway even if Hamas had stayed inside it's border and not conducted a killing spree in southern Israel?Cal88 said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:Maybe Hamas shouldn't invaded Israel first. Israel had a huge overreaction, but it wasn't unprovoked.Cal88 said:Inconcievable pic.twitter.com/HdGlq7vN6z
— Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) February 3, 2025
At least with some of the more knowledgeable Democrats, you might a bit of a better understanding of this issue vs the Reps who are easily gaslighted by Fox, but with you here it looks pretty hopeless.
Israel's actions in the West Bank are CRIMINAL, as widening the scope of destruction beyond Gaza across all the occupied Palestinian territory (I warned the UNGA this was happening, in my last report of October 2024).
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) February 2, 2025
The genocidal intent is evident in the way Israel targets (1)… https://t.co/MmavunAads
An Israeli raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has caused some of the “worst destruction in decades”
— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) April 20, 2024
This dangerous escalation confirms that after Gaza, the occupied West Bank is the Israeli terrorists next target
pic.twitter.com/fOaZl296uN
This is not in Gaza this is Jenin occupied West Bank!!!
— Mohammad_Hesham_Huraini (@MHureini) February 2, 2025
Watch | As part of the same destruction they carried out in Gaza during the genocide, the IOF has begun the mass detonation of Palestinian homes in Jenin refugee camp, north of the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/yyQlHKI3Pf
Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned trauma expert and Holocaust survivor:
— Ryan Rozbiani (@RyanRozbiani) February 3, 2025
"97% of Gazan children showed signs of PTSD—before Hamas even came to power.” pic.twitter.com/dStp4q8ItH
Netanyahu tried to avoid sending a team to Qatar to start discussions over the second phase of the ceasefire as required by the deal on the 16th day of the 1st phase. However, Trump put his foot down and insisted that the team go, otherwise it would be a violation of the…
— Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) February 4, 2025
Return of the King said:
The peace President continuing to use U.S. power and influence to force genocidal maniac Netanyahu to stick to the terms of the ceasefire. Something that Genocide Joe never once attempted to do.Netanyahu tried to avoid sending a team to Qatar to start discussions over the second phase of the ceasefire as required by the deal on the 16th day of the 1st phase. However, Trump put his foot down and insisted that the team go, otherwise it would be a violation of the…
— Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) February 4, 2025
bearister said:Return of the King said:
The peace President continuing to use U.S. power and influence to force genocidal maniac Netanyahu to stick to the terms of the ceasefire. Something that Genocide Joe never once attempted to do.Netanyahu tried to avoid sending a team to Qatar to start discussions over the second phase of the ceasefire as required by the deal on the 16th day of the 1st phase. However, Trump put his foot down and insisted that the team go, otherwise it would be a violation of the…
— Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) February 4, 2025
Well, Yogi, it played out like I predicted throughout this thread. Trump an accessory after the fact to genocide. I don't think the Palestinians are buying any of your arguments how great your guy Trump is. Biden helped kill them, and Trump gave their home away and rewarded the genocidal conduct.
"The US president said he would support an effort to permanently resettle Palestinians from Gaza to places where they can live without fear of violence.
Trump described Gaza as a "demolition site". "The whole thing is a mess. It's all death," he said.
I think we need another location … If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently.
He said he believed Palestinians should not be going back to Gaza. "Why would they want to return? The place has been hell," he said.
Asked how many people he believed should be resettled from Gaza, Trump replied: "All of them."
-The Guardian
*All of Trump's childish arguments for why the Palestinians should not want to return to Gaza were formulated by an idiot that presumed people are all as dumb as Trump's non wealthy supporters and would be convinced.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump has proposed creating a greater Israel in the Middle East, comparing the current size of Israel to a pen on his desk and emphasizing how small it is in the region.
— Peacemaker (@peacemaket71) February 4, 2025
Is this a new US policy? Will we take what we want, even if it doesn't belong to us?
It's not actually… pic.twitter.com/4o1BArI0bJ
Trump going with the Trail of Tears foreign policy plan for 1.8 million Palestinians and Gaza.bearister said:
"In a news conference, Trump said Gaza could be "the Riveria of the Middle East" after Palestinians are relocated."
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-gaza-real-estate-grab/amp/
Jared Kushner was arrogant enough to telegraph the Trump Empire's plan for the Palestinians and Gaza almost a year ago:
Jared Kushner says Gaza's 'waterfront property could be very valuable'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
What the Trumps have in mind: