Donald Trump wants to take over Gaza Strip and turn it into “Côte d’Azur of the Middle East”, bewildered reactions: “This is absurd”

“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip and we will make good work. We will possess it and we will be responsible for the dismantling of all dangerous non-deflected bombs and weapons, “said the US President in the White House. In addition, the Republican said that the United States “will flatten the area and clear the destroyed buildings” to develop the region economically. The plan would yield “thousands of jobs” for the people in the area.

It is not completely clear how the plan would work. When the question of journalists to clarify his discourse, he said he sees “a long -term owner’s position of the Gaza Strip”. According to President Trump, that will bring stability to this part of the Middle East, perhaps also the entire Middle East “. He did not answer the question of which authority gave him the power to seize a sovereign area. “If necessary” the US will use troops in Gaza, the president said.

“Everyone I have spoken with the idea that the United States have that piece of land. This is not a decision that light has passed, “he emphasized. Gaza could become “the Riviera or the Côte d’Azur of the Middle East” where the people of the world can live, including Palestinians.

Trump called the Gaza Strip a “symbol of death and destruction”, for decades, and an unfortunate place. Gaza should not “go through a process of reconstruction and habitation by the same people who had a miserable existence”, because then the same would happen again. All Palestinians should move to other countries, a nice place or places where they can live in peace, harmony and comfort. Rich neighboring countries could pay for this. “They are not going to be shot and killed.”

The only reason that the Palestinians want to return to “the hell” of Gaza is because they have no alternative, according to Trump.

Netanyahu: “Finish work”

Trumps plan for Gaza “can change history,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. President Trump is “the best friend that Israel has had in the White House”. The Israelian praised him “in the same way (als hem, red.) To think. According to the Israeli Prime Minister, US President Israel can help to achieve his war goals through his unconventional way of thinking.

Netanyahu referred to the retrieval of all Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip, destroying Hamas and the assurance that Gaza never again pose a threat to Israel. “To secure our future and bring peace in our region, we have to finish the work” in Gaza, said Prime Minister Netanyahu. “Israel will end the war by winning the war. Israel’s victory will be America’s victory. “

Trump said he is hopeful that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas can mean the start of a permanent peace. The US and Israel will together bring “calmness and stability” to the Middle East, and prosperity.

Visit

At the end of the press conference, President Trump promised that he will visit the Gaza Strip and Israel. “I love Israel, I’m going there. And I will also visit the Gaza Strip, just like many other places in the Middle East. ” It is not clear when that visit will take place.

The US will take a position on the Israeli sovereignty about the West Bank, the US will take a position in the coming weeks, according to Trump.

Indignation

That Trump wants to “take over” immediately led to shocked reactions. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside the White House shouted slogans such as “Palestine is not for sale” and “Donald Trump belongs in the cell”. Democratic Congressmen called the plan “a sick joke” that would lead to decades of war in the Middle East and the death of thousands of American soldiers. Several Republicans also reacted reluctantly.

The Saudi government announced in a statement that it has repeatedly made its unwavering support for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as the capital clear to the US, and that “without no diplomatic relations with Israel”. Saudi Arabia rejects “any infringement of the rights of the Palestinian people, albeit by Israeli occupation, annexation of land, or attempts to expel the Palestinian people of their land.” The Palestinians will not leave their country, it sounds.

Earlier, the Palestinian ambassador at the United Nations (UN) Riyad Mansour had already said that “Palestinians love to live in the Gaza Strip” and do not want to leave. After Trump said that the Palestinians would “like” the besieged Gaza Strip, Mansour responded that “world leaders should respect the wishes of the Palestinians”.

The Palestinian extremist group Hamas also rejected Trumps statements. According to Hamas leader Sami Zuhri, the discourse of the American is “ridiculous”, “absurd” and a “recipe for chaos in the Middle East”. “Our people in the Gaza Strip will not allow these plans to be implemented. What is needed is the end of the occupation and aggression against our people, not their expulsion of their country, “it sounded.