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How dare Trump state the obvious about Gaza

Everyone says the Gazans must live in the rubble and stay under the control of Hamas. No one asks why the Gazans should be suspended in the aspic of their leaders’ failure and fanaticism.

Dominic Green
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How dare Donald Trump state the obvious about the Palestinians. Gaza, Trump said at Tuesday’s press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, is an uninhabitable “hellhole”. Rebuilding Gaza’s physical fabric will take years. The Gazans are incapable of doing it.

Any reconstruction that resets to October 6, 2023 will “end up the same way it has for a hundred years”, with more terrorism and further destruction. Time to “do something different”. The United States can “take over” Gaza, and the Gazans move out while a “Riviera of the Middle East” rises over the rubble.

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