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Trump’s land grab is no real surprise

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Once a real estate agent, always a real estate agent (“Will we see boots on the ground for a Middle East Riviera?”). Donald Trump may have secured his second term as US president, but he can’t stop thinking about property. From his New York base, he must have been looking north for decades, irritated that Canada and Greenland had been incorrectly subdivided.

Donald Trump has proposed a US take-over of the war-torn Gaza Strip to redevelop the territory into the “Riviera of the Middle East”. David Rowe

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