Andrew Bolt: Donald Trump’s Gaza plan visionary crazily dangerous
The problems with Donald Trump’s Gaza plan are obvious. But who has a better plan for the strip, run for years by Hamas terrorists keener to kill Jews than to build a future?
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Suddenly colonialism is good again. Bombshell: Donald Trump says the United States will “take over the Gaza Strip” and make it the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
Only a real estate developer could have dreamt up this plan to supposedly end a lifetime of war between Israel and the Palestinians of Gaza.
Nothing the new US president has said is as visionary and crazily dangerous as this, which Trump announced standing next to a bemused Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump made it sound so simple, and it’s even simpler to say he’s nuts.
He said the 2 million Gazans must go to unnamed Arab countries – to some “beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed”.
America would then level Gaza’s ruins and “create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing” and attract people from around the world. Oh, Palestinians, too.
But, wait. Arab countries say they don’t want to take Palestinians, and the US sure won’t. Who wants the trouble, the Hamas sympathisers?
Nor have many Gazans said they want to leave, and Trump didn’t say how he’ll make them.
Only a fool could ignore that Trump’s plan – if he’s not bluffing again – means creating American territory out of land crawling with terrorists.
Owning Gaza – almost certainly illegally – turns America into a frontline state in one of the world’s most violent areas. Every Islamic terrorist in the Middle East would have an American target in their back yard.
Netanyahu did his best, saying Trump often said things that sounded crazy but had people later saying: “He’s right.”
Netanyahu would say that.
America taking over security in Gaza is great for Israel. Trump even promised to be “somewhat more violent” if Hamas didn’t release every remaining Israeli hostage.
So the problems are obvious, but who has a better plan for Gaza, run for years by Hamas terrorists keener to kill Jews than to build, leaving Gaza in ruins in its latest death-cult war?
Can this really go on for generations more?
Gaza should actually be the Riviera Trump described. It’s in a beautiful part of the Mediterranean. Or do Palestinians really want to live in the rubble of a dead-end territory locked in a forever war?
Criticising Trump’s plan as mad is easy. Thinking up a better one that lets Israel live is almost impossible.
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Donald Trump’s Gaza plan visionary crazily dangerous
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