Who knew that America First had such global ambitions? Who knew that, when Donald Trump promised ‘mass deportations’, he also might have been thinking about using America’s might to extract Palestinian people out of Gaza to give them a ‘lasting home’ in Jordan or Egypt? Donald Trump promised ‘peace through strength’ on the campaign trail. The president never quite said that could mean deploying US funds and troops to remake Gaza into, as he now puts, a ‘Riviera of the Middle East’.
‘Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable,’ Jared Kushner has said
Standing with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington yesterday, Trump said: ‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip…level the site, get rid of destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.’
Well, as Pepper Brooks says in the film Dodgeball, ‘It’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for ‘em.’
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