First Trump says ship ALL the Palestians OUT of Gaza….
And send in US Troop’s?
Make the area WHAT?
That ain’t going to please the Saudi’s…
And?
There are a half million of people who have RETURNED to the bombed out place….
The latest?
How about America taking ‘OVER’ the Gaza Strip?
Folks?
I seems like the last person to talk to the American President is what comes out of his mouth….
This while the Israeli Prime Minister says ‘nice’things for Trump’s ego….
Elsewhere?
Reports are that Iran, kicked out of Syria, losing Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi campaigns against Israel….Is scrambling to develop a simpler nuclear bomb….
Well…WELL….
The Republicans in the US Senate are scratching their heads on this one…
And some signaling they are NOT comfortable with their leaders freelancing….
*Update….
Democrats In the Senate Freeze Isareli Militaery Aid package…
Congress has placed a hold on a $1 billion arms sale package for Israel that was readied alongside President Trump welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington on Tuesday.
Two congressional aides told The Hill on Tuesday that a hold has been placed on the arms sale package. The Wall Street Journal first reportedthe hold, saying Democratic lawmakers had exercised a hold….
Republican US Senators….
(Would they fold on this and back Trump like they have will EVERYTHING else so far?)
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Jim Risch (R-Idaho) said he had not heard Trump’s remarks and so “I don’t want to comment.” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said that “I don’t really know what to make of that” and joked that reporters should check back with him on Wednesday.
Other allies tried to walk a careful line between not shutting the door to Trump but also signaling their skepticism about taking over the Gaza Strip.
“We’ll see what our Arab friends say about that. I think most South Carolinians would probably not be excited about sending Americans to take over Gaza. I think that might be problematic, but I’ll keep an open mind,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
Asked about sending U.S. troops, he added that Gaza “would be a tough place to be stationed as an American.”
Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), who noted he still had to take a look at the comments, said Trump might be doing this as a negotiating tactic. He added that maybe the president is trying to “force a resolution” on a “very difficult issue.”
“I don’t know that I think it’s the best use of United States resources to spend a bunch of money in Gaza, I think maybe I’d prefer that to be spent in the United States first,” Sen. Josh Hawley said. “But let’s see what happens.”
When asked if he thought sending US troops to Gaza was the right solution, the Missouri Republican said he did not….
Read on…
‘Move’m Out?
President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded on his vision for moving Gazans to another country, saying he hoped “all of them” would be displaced elsewhere.
“I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “ … If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently and nice homes and where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed, not be knifed to death — like what’s happening in Gaza.”
When pressed on how many Gazans he wanted to move, Trump said, “All of them.”
“I think they’ll be resettled in areas where they can live a beautiful life and not be worried about dying every day,” he added.
Trump earlier Tuesday proposed moving Gazans to a “good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” in another country. Trump framed the vision as a practical response to the physical destruction of Gaza after 16 months of intense bombardment from Israel. But given the decades-long history of the displacement of Palestinians in the region, as well as vows by the Israeli far right to claim the Gaza Strip for Israel, Trump’s proposal was likely to provoke a furious reaction from many Palestinians as well as their Arab allies in the region, since it suggested permanently removing Gaza’s 2.2 million residents from Palestinian territory and settling them somewhere else….
The US could ‘Own’ Gaza?…..
This from the former New York Real Estate guy…
After suggesting that Gazans should move to other countries after the Middle East war has wreaked havoc on their homes, President Donald Trump suggested that the United States would “own” the process of rebuilding the Gaza Strip.
“We’ll own it and be responsible” for rebuilding Gaza, Trump said during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we’ll do a job with it.”…
This is the first time he has said the United States would “own” Gaza, although it was unclear whether he meant actually taking over the enclave, or it’s reconstruction….
US Troop’s FOR Gaza resettlment and ‘ownership’?
Asked whether U.S. troops will be deployed to take over Gaza, President Donald Trump said: “We’ll do what’s necessary. … We’ll take it over and develop it.”…
Hamas Comment on this….
Hamas, which has ruled in Gaza for most of the past two decades and is re-establishing control there now, immediately rejected mass relocation on Tuesday, and Egypt and Jordan have rejected the idea of taking in a large influx of Palestinians, given the fraught history, burden and destabilizing potential.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas official, said that Mr. Trump’s proposed relocation was “a recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region.”
“Our people in Gaza will not allow for these plans to come to pass,” he said in a statement distributed by Hamas. “What is needed is the end of the occupation and the aggression against our people, not expelling them from their land.”
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Iran is conducting nuclear research that would enable it to build a nuclear weapon in a period of months. The New York Times reported on February 3 that a “secret team” of Iranian weapons engineers and scientists is “exploring” a faster approach to build a nuclear weapon in a “matter of months.” The engineers and scientists could be from the Organization of Defense Innovation and Research (SPND), which, under a different name, played a leading role in the Iranian nuclear weapons research program before 2003. The new approach would decrease the time Iran needs to turn weapons-grade uranium (uranium enriched to 90 percent) into a nuclear weapon. This approach would significantly reduce the time that the International Atomic Energy Agency would have to detect Iranian weaponization activity. It would also reduce the time that the United States or Israel would have to take military action against Iranian nuclear facilities.
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