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Trump’s Gaza plan is a crazy answer to a valid question

Trump’s Gaza plan is a crazy answer to a valid question

Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza will love Israel to death, revive Iran to life and destabilise every American friend.

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Thomas FriedmanContributor

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President Donald Trump’s plan to take over the Gaza Strip, remove its 2 million Palestinians and turn the coastal desert strip into some sort of Club Med proves only one thing: how short a distance it is between out-of-the-box thinking and out-of-your-mind thinking.

I can say with confidence that Trump’s proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East “peace” initiative ever put out by an American president.

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