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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  • 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·
            21 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·
              21 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.

                  • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
                    31·
                    20 hours ago

                    Im actively involved in indigenous projects for the indigenous people.

                    I helped a Black woman win a Dem primary, only to have the Local Dems back a Reich Winger in a write in ballot.

                    But, yeah, I don’t care about them. K.

                    I’m not the one sending jackboot thugs into their community… that’s the local dems.