U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants his country to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are displaced elsewhere.

“We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,” Trump said at the start of a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump said when asked about the U.S. controlling the territory for an extended period, adding that he is not ruling out sending U.S. troops in to secure Gaza.

Trump’s comments came hours after he suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory.

“You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location,” Trump said earlier Tuesday.

“I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.”

Trump has previously called on Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries to take in Palestinians temporarily while Gaza is reconstructed after the devastating war between Hamas and Israel, which was paused in January by a ceasefire. Tuesday was the first time he has publicly floated making that resettlement permanent.

  • Jacobo_Villa_Lobos [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,” Trump said at the start of a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    WHO PUT THEM THERE?

    honk

    WHO PUT THOSE UNEXPLODED BOMBS AND WEAPONS THERE MOTHERFUCKER? big-honk

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      Yeah…

      Kinda… like… How in Iraq War 2?

      The one where we were looking for WMDs?

      … The only possible things that could qualify as such that existed in Iraq, were buried, aging and leaking chemical artillery shells…

      That we either directly manufactured and gave to Iraq (and Iran), or paid to purchase for Saddam, in the Iran Iraq war in the 80s.

      … That he used to genocide the Kurds with.

      … And the Kurds are now on track to be totally abandoned by US, yet again, which will lead to even more genocide of them, this time mostly Turkiye… oh right, and the descendants of ISIS, who are themselves the deacendents of literally Al-Qaida, who wasn’t even in Iraq, untill we invaded it… to… get … them?

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    5 hours ago

    devastating war between Khhhhhamas and israel

    kkkanada fake country

    that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory

    How about we permanently resettle all those rabid pissraelis far away from the land they have stolen and the people they slaughter en masse?