President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

Donald Trump has said that Palestinians have “no alternative” but to leave Gaza due to the devastation left by Israel’s war on Hamas, in effect endorsing ethnic cleansing of the territory over the opposition of Palestinians and the neighbouring countries.

Speaking as he prepared to host Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, Trump repeated the suggestion that Gaza’s population should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt – something both countries have firmly rejected.

Trump claimed Palestinians would “love to leave Gaza”, telling reporters: “I would think that they would be thrilled.”

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  • Captain Howdy@lemm.eeEnglish
    121·
    4 hours ago

    Wow it’s almost like this was predictable. Good thing all those liberals who didn’t vote for Harris could not have possibly known Trump would be even worse…

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 hours ago

    If you have absolutely no empathy for fellow human beings, no sense of morality, no concern with topping off a holocaust with a cultural genocide, no concern with what anyone wants for themselves …… I guess that describes the orange guy

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    253·
    8 hours ago

    I’d ask protest voters if they’re feeling pretty stupid right now, but the truth is they never gave a flying fuck about Palestinians. They only cared about feeling morally superior.

    Trash humans.

  • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    323·
    10 hours ago

    Wellllll technically those who voted against Kamala to stop israeli genocide got what they wanted. Israel no longer has to genocide Palestinians.

  • sumguyonline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 hours ago

    If he said this to people in my home town, there would be 1 resounding answer from those left standing “Live free or Die” so actually Palestinians that have nothing to lose because it was taken from them, literally don’t have a choice but to stay and fight the boot on their neck.

  • adm@lemm.eeEnglish
    191·
    12 hours ago

    It’s right to be angry. I don’t have an answer. I think few people realize that most genocides are actually successful and forgotten.

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
    503·
    16 hours ago

    In 1940, the Nazis’ plan was to relocate all Jews to Madagascar.
    Just 2 years later, they started exterminating them systematically.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 hours ago

      Yup.

      They went from passing oppressive laws against Jews to turning them to ash in a frighteningly short period of time.

      Fascism is 100% here and our nation is asleep at the fucking wheel.

      Never been more ashamed to be an American.

    • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      212·
      10 hours ago

      Population transfers aren’t unheard of. In Greece/Turkey, Italians from eastern Adriatic, German from Prussia and Silesia, Pakistan/India millions of people moved.

      This Holocaust comparison is completely dishonest and betrays any knowledge of how it happened. Used in this context, it’s Holocaust relativism at best and likely antisemitic.

      • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 hours ago

        Well, i have bad news… all of those were genocides

        Edir: purging an etnicity from a land to gain a claim over that territory makes it sound bad enough?

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    305·
    16 hours ago

    Americans making this about Trump vs Kamala is getting really really annoying. I mean, we get it, you are pissed off at each other. We’ve read the same arguments dozens of times already, and at this point it is getting extremely tired. It sucks the oxygen out of every conversation. Is this what the discourse is going to be around Palestine and Israel the next four years?

    • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I don’t think these people actually care about Palestinians, it’s team sports. They care more about saying “I told ya so” than advocating for people who are suffering.

      • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
        61·
        9 hours ago

        The US President, yes. You have to understand that internationally, at this point, we just see him as just that: The US President. Your elections are your internal issue and we don’t need to be expending all our energy psychoanalyzing your electoral system. As not-an-american, I don’t give a damn about how mad you are at your fellow citizens who might or might not have stayed home at election day or voted in a way that you think was stupid. Not every fucking world event needs to be understood from the perspective of the role of Jill Fucking Stein as a spoiler candidate.

        EDIT: Rule number 1 says “[…] Not United States Internal News […]”. This applies to posts, but I think after a certain point, overtly brigading every fucking world event thread with the internal US perspective kind of beats the point.