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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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    1 day ago

    I really believe the outcome for the millions of brown and queer people in America would have been different if Trump didn’t win.

    And my ‘why’ here has been the same why for months- why did that not matter?

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
      34·
      21 hours ago

      So, your desired outcome was to keep the genocides in foreign lands going, to maybe slow it down in the US?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        21 hours ago

        You seem to think “desired outcome” is the same as “outcome I thought was achievable.” They are completely different.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
          32·
          21 hours ago

          So, what change un outcome did you expect? Because I didn’t expect either candidate to care about dead Palestinians, or exploited workers at home…

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            21 hours ago

            I expected people to give a shit about brown and queer people in the U.S.

            But they didn’t.

            Including you, apparently.

            • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
              31·
              20 hours ago

              When did voters, or the Dems, actually do anything for brown and Black people in the US?

              More cops doesn’t count…

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                20 hours ago

                “Other people didn’t care, so I didn’t either” is not the robust self-defense you think it is.

                • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  31·
                  20 hours ago

                  Worse than “didn’t care”… it’s more like “caring about how to make their lives worse”…

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    22·
                    20 hours ago

                    I still don’t know why you think this is any sort of self-defense, but okay. Fine. You didn’t want to make their lives worse, you just didn’t give a fuck about them at all. You hero.