This ethnic cleansing plan is being presented as a humanitarian solution to tragic circumstances, when in reality the U.S. and Israel purposely destroyed the enclave.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Tuesday. (C-Span)
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
Listen to Tim Foley reading this article.
Grinning like the cat that ate the canary, Hague fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu sat beside Donald Trump as the U.S. president unequivocally told the press on Tuesday that the plan for Gaza is to permanently remove all Palestinians from the enclave.
“I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza,” Trump said. “I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They’ve lived like hell.”
Asked for clarification on whether the Palestinians would have a right to return to Gaza after its reconstruction, Trump said the plan is to build them housing in other countries that’s so nice they won’t want to return.
“It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return,” Trump said, adding, “I hope that we could do something where they wouldn’t want to go back. Who would want to go back? They’ve experienced nothing but death and destruction.”
Asked how many people he was talking about removing, Trump replied, “All of them.”
BREAKING: Donald Trump plans on Ethnic Cleansing Palestine:
“All of them. Theres 1.7 or 1.8 million people. They can settle, all of them to areas where they can live a beautiful life and not be worried about dying everyday” pic.twitter.com/Sy8y7p0oIO
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) February 4, 2025
Shortly after, the president announced that the U.S. would soon “take over” and “own” Gaza and oversee construction projects there.
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too,” Trump said. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings — level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
Given what Trump previously said about permanently removing all Palestinians from Gaza, there is no question who he is talking about when he says he wants to provide housing for “the people of the area.” He obviously isn’t talking about creating housing for the Palestinians of Gaza, so he presumably means housing for Israeli Jews. He’s talking about a very straightforward ethnic cleansing operation, driven by the United States.
Trump clarified that when he said the U.S. would “own” the Gaza Strip, he did not misspeak. “Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land,” he told the press.
REPORTER: You are talking tonight about the US taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation?
TRUMP: “I do see a long term ownership position” of Gaza after Palestinians are moved elsewhere. “This is… pic.twitter.com/AaP0ZQiDeb
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) February 5, 2025
Trump reiterated his previously stated position that the people of Gaza could be relocated to Jordan or Egypt or “other countries.” Of course the possibility of Palestinians living anywhere else in their historic homeland has not been mentioned, because that’s not how ethnic cleansing works.
The agenda is to remove an undesirable population from the land so that they can be replaced with a desirable one; allowing Palestinians from Gaza to live in Israeli territory or the West Bank during reconstruction would defeat the purpose of Israel’s actions since October 2023.
Trump repeatedly spoke of how devastated, dangerous and uninhabitable Gaza is, making it sound like the area was hit by an unfortunate natural disaster and not a deliberate and methodical operation to make the enclave unlivable.
This ethnic cleansing plan is being presented as a humanitarian solution to tragic circumstances, when in reality the U.S. and Israel destroyed Gaza on purpose with the goal of advancing the exact agenda they are working to advance today.
This move is sure to be aggressively resisted, both internally by Hamas and by neighboring powers, even if the Trump administration can find nations willing to facilitate its ethnic cleansing plans. This means we can expect significantly more violence and killing in the region if this agenda moves forward.
And it should here be mentioned that Donald Trump has publicly admitted to being bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs.
The president openly acknowledged on the campaign trail that the first time he was president, megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson were at the White House “probably almost more than anybody” demanding favors for Israel like moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and acknowledging Israel’s illegitimate claim to the Golan Heights, which he eagerly granted.
Miriam Adelson, who is Israeli-American, gave the Trump campaign $100 million last year.
And that’s the price of entry if you want to become president of the United States. You have to make alliances with oligarchs and empire managers who want very ugly things for our world, and you have to be the sort of person who is sufficiently dead inside to make such Faustian bargains.
That’s why U.S. presidents are so consistently evil; if they weren’t, they’d never make it anywhere near the presidency.
Meanwhile, a poll by the Jewish People Policy Institute has found that “more than eight out of ten Jewish Israelis support the plan” proposed by Trump to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians by resettling them in Egypt and Jordan.
The poll also found that among the minority of Israelis who did not support Trump’s plan, only 13 percent opposed it because they viewed it as immoral. Among Jewish Israelis specifically, the number who oppose the ethnic cleansing of Gaza for moral reasons is just 3 percent.
Three percent. If that isn’t a sign of a morally diseased society, I don’t know what would be.
Trump’s Plan to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza Has Overwhelming Support With Israelis
by Kyle Anzalone@KyleAnzalone_ #Gaza #Israel #Palestinians #ethniccleansing https://t.co/qZTJWL1nyJ— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) February 4, 2025
To be clear, we are talking about permanently driving an indigenous population off their homeland at mass scale so that their territory can be claimed by settlers.
This is the sort of crime that even a half-formed conscience would immediately recognize as deeply immoral, but among Jewish Israelis, that figure is just 3 percent.
The moral degeneracy which makes such a large-scale lack of basic human empathy possible is the natural consequence of everything the state of Israel is and always has been.
Jewish Israelis are indoctrinated from birth to view Palestinians as less than human, because otherwise modern Israel makes no sense.
It makes no sense for an apartheid state where one group receives preferential treatment over others to have been dropped on top of a pre-existing civilization whose land, rights and dignity were then violently stolen from them — if you view all the parties involved as equal. So they are trained not to view them as equal.
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I was very young when the United Nations re-created the state of Israel. It’s been chaos ever since? What gives the Israelis more rights to statehood than the UN Charter gives to the Palestinians? Simple hatred of Muslims isn’t an international crisis. It’s simply a false narrative to impede any progress in Palestinian lifelines. The US needs to reverse its billion-dollar support of Israel and its supply of munitions. Now. No, yesterday.
Enjoy!
Fountains.
Swimming pools
Beautiful scenery,
Mediterranean,
Fast cars,
Men with big cigars,
Large yachts, caviar,
Billionaire’s dream
Allahu Akbar
For as long as I can remember Israel has violently baited the Palestinians, time and time again. When the discipline of the Palestinians became eroded by enduring, beating after beating, imprisonment after imprisonment, deadly attack after attack by the IDF on individual after individual, Palestinian’s responded with throwing of rocks, and other, sometimes more vicious attacks of their own. Sometimes Hamas responded.
Israel thanks to mainly the U.S. bogus media put most all blame on Palestinians.
Same with this last gristly episode.
A better idea is to give the poor deprived discriminated-against Israeli Jews, including the 800 000 settlers occupying the West Bank, a large portion of land eg California once rebuilt after the fires, in a region like the USA where they will be welcomed and would save a lot of money on “defense!!!
Palestinians would have all of Palestine.!!-
Problem solved, Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu !!
This sounds like a great plan!
Lets give the Palestinians the whole of Germany, since their land got stolen so the world could pretend to make up for what the Germans did in WW2.
There are lots of nice houses and resources in Germany, and the German people I am sure would be happy to leave to help out their Israeli friends they love so much!
Also one Nordstream pipeline is still functioning. The Palestinians could turn that back on and do great things in Germany.
A better idea is to give the poor deprived discriminated-against Israeli Jews, including the 800 000 settlers occupying the West Bank, a large portion of land eg California once rebuilt after the fires, in a region like the USA where they will be welcomed and would save a lot of money on “defense!!!
Palestinians would have all of Palestine.!!-
Problem solved, Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu !!
It’s QUITE REVEALING how so many believe they will decide and choose who IS or IS NOT going to live upon which land/s.
Almighty God created every human being AFTER He created this physical universe, then allowed His children to subdue this Earth and multiply there upon. NOT subdue other “brothers & sisters”…actual family AND cease them to multiply.
Has everyone forgotten: Matthew chapter 22 verses 36 thru 40: “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
I’m absolutely 100% sure: NOBODY will love their neighbor via sending deadly ammunition OR explosives.
II Chronicles chapter 7 verses 14-15-16: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”
Therefore…choose life.
Thank you Caitlin Johnstone for having the courage to state the truth.
The US, Israel and every unregulated market economy can form only “a morally diseased society.”
They are pseudo-democracies, corrupt throughout, and elevate only scammers to the top of government.
The US is a demoncracy, and should not be recognized as a nation until it implements:
1. Constitutional amendments prohibiting election or media funding beyond limited individual donations;
2. Public and mass media education to identify and avoid dangerous social dependency upon tribal groups.
The US has carried out many ethnic cleansings and massacres, first Native Americans, then Filipinos, Viet Namese, etc. I’m afraid most of us take them for granted, like rainstorms. :-(
I do realize this is a period of uneasiness with respect to criticizing the new, “gag”, administration. One, I have no personal interest of supporting.
This environment, while I’m sure is like a ‘mine field’ for Consortium News is something that must be dealt with. So I’ll reserve my true thoughts about Trump’s madness for a while.
The problem for me is being patient.
Trumps proposal for a solution to the Gaza is, IMHO, total lunacy. As for Bibi, Trump is supporting a man who has been dragged into court by his countrymen. His acts of violence on Gaza place him firmly in the category of being a violent psychopath who lives to eliminate his perceived enemies which include innocents.
So my reality is, if I intend to comment here, to soften my views on individuals I perceive as being unworthy of any respect from me.
Something which goes goes against the grain of my values.
The perfect example of how authoritarians operate. Divide and conquer by intimidation to silence critics.
A road it seems which we have all been forced to. march down.
I read a comment else where from an individual who claimed, ” . . give the administration and the guy in charge some time he has only been on the job five weeks.”
An out front apologist for a guy who had the job for four years and lost his attempt to win another term in office.
I do, however, with glee enjoy the looks on the faces of those around him while he constantly acts his part of the tube.
Gosh, why do I feel like I just kissed my sister. Believe me you don’t know my sister.
And when have we learned to take the Donald at face value for anything? Declaring that it’s up to the US to fix the mess is a humiliating acknowledgement of Israel’s utter failure in Gaza. The indicted war criminal Bibi can serve as the fall guy when the absurd plan collapses, and Trump’s maniacal Israel First donors might be led to believe they got their money’s worth. As much as I dislike his bombastic demagoguery, this is Trump’s natural milieu, the utterly amoral, backstabbing world of international diplomacy.
Sick, sick, sick! I hope the Earth rids herself of this fetid cancer…
Gaz-a-Lago
I have been waiting a long time for this. We should be thankful Trump has shown the world the United States has never been any different. It is business as usual. In reality Israel is the US and the US is Israel. All US Presidents in my time have pretended they supported a Palestinian State, while having Israel thwarting any attempt to create one.
From this underhand, dishonest slippery stance, the US and its allies succeeded in allowing Israel to commit crime after crime against the Palestinian people. Year after year after year.
The Israeli army is akin to a killer for hire. It commits any crime in any place, in any country in the world. . We all watch in horror the political assassinations, the terrorising of Palestinians, the snipers who kill children, the demolition teams who blow up and burn houses, the murder of patients and doctors.
Surely now that Trump has made it clear that Israel and the US have used October 7th to attempt to steal the whole of the Gaza Strip and throw out the Palestinians, there is no excuse for inaction. The international community must act now, stop Israel and US in their tracks and quickly implement the two state solution.
Though this time may be just a pause from all out war, Palestine is still there and the world knows it.
Israel and the US are denying their defeat. Hamas has already rebuilt. Of course Palestinians don’t want more war.
Sanitation is needed. See ferrocement.com for sanitation and saving Human waste for compost to fertilize farms when it can be done. (85% of food value is excreted).
Use rubble to create sanitation and compost.
So, when Trump sent Kushner for peace in the Middle East, he was actually using taxpayers’ money to have him scout a PIECE of real estate!
Bibi came to the US Congress last year in order to repeat the Holocaust/victim narrative and to “soften” US politicians to the notion that the next US President will fall for his ultimate plan for the “clearance” of Gaza. I now fear for the future of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. I predict Bibi’s reward to Trump will be the construction of a major US naval/army/airforce complex base to be built on Gaza. That will be a hedge against Iran and its sympathisers.
Trump’s been throwing a lot of red meat to his base over the past two months in order to garner their support when the really rancid pro-Israel acts start to happen.
Everything is on the table right now. Netanyahu and Miriam are in full control of this admin (As I’ve been saying for the past year or so would be the case). Serious and devastating attacks on the West Bank could be in store, a major bombing run against Iranian targets in Iran proper could happen within the next 18 mos, and of course the revolting spectacle of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza being forcibly displaced and shoved into Egypt and Jordan is in the cards.
When does the Arab world get to cleanse Lower Manhattan and do with it what they please?
And the vast, vast majority of Jewish supremacists in Israel give full throated support to the total ethnic cleansing of 2 million Palestinians! How could even a one-state solution chock full of Jewish supremacists even work?
One state is worth a try, It might give a generation or so of respite. What’s happening isn’t good for anybody.
Drew,
This quote cleared my understanding of red meat and its counterpart . Thanks
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“Trump’s been throwing a lot of red meat to his base over the past two months in order to garner their support when the really rancid pro-Israel acts start to happen”
I haven’t been out and about much lately, but I’d like to ask Trump supporters I know what they think of Trump and his Israel First policy. I think a lot of them hate what he is doing. When even the MSM says, “Didn’t Trump’s supporters want him to stop the US policy of interfering in every country on Earth?” you know something is up. Trump cares nothing for this country, he’s too busy switching the straw (plastic, of course) from Bibi’s bottom to Adelson’s bottom.
Actions speak louder than words.
Despite Mr. Trump’s many words on peace in the Middle East, what he does belies what he claims to want.
Would Trump embrace Iran’s leader, Ali Khamenei as warmly as he did Benjamin Netanyahu, if doing so would lead to permeant peace?
I think not.
So, having been victims of a genocide, the Palestines are to be transported to some other piece of land and the current residents of wherever pushed aside.
Gee, what could go wrong?
I wonder if people will comment less, gravity so great, I hail Caitlin for her level headed commentary.
She reveals what is, a world where a salesman shows the way with nothing but buyers.
Mussolini was quite the salesman, hitler too, selling the sickness endemic to the sick in a sick society.
The dems are nothing more than clerks and functionaries. non can address the people, the dems picked the worst of all politicians to represent, biden a life long cypher, what, nothing to offer people citizens and workers, but death and distruction. So we end up with this madness.
Israel is a symptom as we are of colonialism.
In a way man has always colonized, or when settling to become targets to the marauding colonial hordes.
I feel like vomiting when I see these 2!!! Rumour has it that Trump’s residence Mar-a-Lago is being considered as one of the places Palestinians will be resettled. :-) Musk will have to move out.