“I would like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say: ‘You know, it’s over.'”
“I would love for you to take on more, ‘cause I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”
“It is literally a demolition site right now, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there,” he said.
“So, I would rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
I’m not too familiar with internal Egyptian politics, what are the implications of Trump pulling diplomatic and financial support for the current government? I recognize it as America shooting itself in the foot, but I don’t see what any other leverage the state department could use.
Immediate Arab Spring, the country is a pressure cooker and it’s gonna blow up eventually, but I doubt the Americans want to hand Hamas a massive rear base and Israel its greatest and most well armed enemy
On the flip side, the military will straight up put one in Sisi’s head if he so much as signals acceptance of Trump’s plan, Palestinian movement is the only true redline of the Arab comprador regimes and there is no compromise on it, they’d rather fight a hot war against Israel and the US