Can’t wait to see, “The Apprentice.” So sue me Donny!.
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The Oval Office is a game show. And you voted for it.
“President Trump’s plan to take over Gaza, remove its two million Palestinians and turn the coastal desert strip into some sort of Club Med proves only one thing: how short a distance it is between out-of-the-box thinking and out-of-your-mind thinking.
I can say with confidence that Trump’s proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East “peace” initiative ever put out by an American president.”
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/opinion/trump-israel-gaza.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I like Tom's synopsis of the situation...
...from his Opinion article...
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For instance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio keeps telling Arab leaders, “Hamas can never govern Gaza or threaten Israel again.” But Rubio seems to be clueless that it was Netanyahu who arranged for Qatar to give Hamas hundreds of millions of dollars that it diverted to its tunnel-building and arms-manufacturing program so it could rule Gaza forever.
Bibi wanted Hamas to “govern Gaza” and not the West Bank Palestinian Authority so that the Palestinians would always be divided and never able to be a partner for a two-state solution — the goal of every U.S. president since George H.W. Bush.
And the reason Netanyahu has refused to define an alternative leadership for Gaza is because he knows the only credible alternative is a reformed Palestinian Authority, but that the far right in Israel would topple him if he agreed to such a solution.
So please, spare me the idea that everything else but ethnic cleansing has been tried in good faith by both sides.
If Trump really wants to make a radical departure and take advantage of some of the fear he instills in people, it is not with this juvenile Mar-a-Gaza proposal. It would be to publicly call out all the parties and challenge each of them to actually, in good faith, do the hard stuff required to dig out of this hellhole.
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It is certainly jingoistic.
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Idiotic article.
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"between out-of-the-box thinking and out-of-your-mind thinking."
Yes, exactly. But, someone will have to make Gaza liveable.and half of this idea is good spoiled by the other half.
I am constantly reminded of David Frum's "If Liberals Won't Enforce Borders, Fascists Will". It will be the theme for the next 4 years. Some people warned of this...
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