Quotes
Does no one in the media know what it's called when you 'clean out' an ethnic group and expel them from their land? 'Trump Calls For Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians From Gaza,' that is your headline."
Assal Rad, Middle East historian and foreign policy analyst, posted on X, formerly Twitter
The idea that all the Palestinians are going to leave and go somewhere else, I don't see that to be overly practical."
Lindsay Graham, a Trump ally, said
Egypt and Jordan want to take Palestinian refugees even less than Trump wants to take it Guatemalan refugees. If Trump understood anything about the history of the Egyptian ruling clique v Muslim Brotherhood or the Jordanian Hashemite rulers v Palestinians, he would know this."
In a post on X, Julie Roginsky, a former Fox News and CNBC contributor, wrote.jpg)
After 76 years during which the majority of Gaza's population has been forcibly kept in harsh conditions to preserve the aspiration of destroying the State of Israel, the idea of helping them find other places to start new, better lives is an excellent idea."
The Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the leader of the Religious Zionism party, said in a statement published by the Times of IsraelThere is nothing there — there is no life, everything is demolished. But still to return to your land, to your home is a big joy,
one man anxiously waiting told the BBC
The Palestinians had their chance in Gaza,
he said in a US television interviewOur people, just as they have thwarted all plans for displacement and an alternative homeland over the decades, will also thwart such projects,
he added.jpg)
Our rejection of the displacement of Palestinians is firm and will not change. Jordan is for Jordanians and Palestine is for Palestinians,
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Sunday
According to our experience of the 70 to 80 years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, any temporary measure adopted by Israel ends up becoming permanent,
Rantawi saidJordan and Egypt will not accept it,
he addedThe people of Gaza have endured death and refused to leave their homeland and they will not leave it regardless of any other reasons,
Abu Zuhri told Reuters
Ethnic cleansing is anything but an 'out-of- the-box' thinking, no matter how one packages it. It is illegal, immoral and irresponsible."
In a post on X, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, saidIf he thinks he will forcibly displace the Palestinian people (then) this is impossible, impossible, impossible. The Palestinian people firmly believe that this land is theirs, this soil is their soil,
said Magdy SeidamBecause they bought them.”
Asked why he lifted the ban on those bombs, Trump responded
The rest of the world sees that a better plan would be to stop Israel's genocidal colonialism and allow Palestinians to live peacefully on the land that they have lived on for generations."
Afshin Rattansi, journalist, commented on XI'm genuinely curious how Arab nations are going to respond to Trump on this. He's literally calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza."
Aaron Astor, historian, wrote on X.jpg)
Congratulations to US President Trump on the initiative to transfer residents from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt. One of our demands from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to encourage voluntary immigration, and when the president of the world's largest power, Trump, himself raises the idea, it would be wise for the Israeli government to implement it - encourage immigration now!"
Itamar Ben Gvir, the chairman of Israel's far-right Otzma Yehudit party, wrote on X
Trump is quite different from almost all previous leaders since the early Middle Ages. He does not even pretend—with Greenland or Gaza or international aid—to be acting for just reasons. The impact of this naked abuse of power will be staggering."
Rory Stewart, former British Conservative MP and political podcast host, wrote on XI looked at a picture of Gaza, Gaza is like a massive demolition site … It's got to be rebuilt in a different way."
Last Monday, on his first day in office, he saidIt's not our war; it's their war. I think they are very weakened on the other side,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office earlier in the week