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We're going to take it, we're going to hold it, we're going to cherish it. We're going to get it going eventually, where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the Middle East. It's going to be for the people in the Middle East,
I’ve watched it so long, all the death and destruction of Gaza. A civilization’s been wiped out in Gaza,
This is so ridiculous. It is so beyond – you cannot uproot a people from their land. That is literally the cornerstone of modern international law,
Palestinian-American human rights attorney Noura Erakat, of Rutgers University, told The Independent Biden also proposed this, but the Egyptians pushed back hard and said, ‘there's no way we're going to absorb them into the Sinai’. And so it was abandoned as a plan,
Erakat said, referring to a Times of Israel report in 2023 indicating [So ... So] frankly, I don't take it seriously,
It’s outside the box, but that’s what he always is,
Rubio told Scott Jennings I believe we’ll have a parcel of land in Egypt and a parcel of land in Jordan [to house Palestinians forced out of their homes],
Trump said as he joined the Jordanian leader in Washington We're not going to buy anything. We're going to have it,
he said of the land itself International humanitarian law prohibits the permanent forced displacement of the population of an occupied territory. When such forced displacement is carried out with criminal intent, it is a war crime. If carried out as part of widespread or systematic attack on the civilian population, reflecting state policy, it is a crime against humanity.”
Human Rights Watch used different language when the international civil liberties watchdog said of the plan last week It shows just how detached he is from international norms, but it's imperative that the rest of the world resists and rejects that as a way forward,
Diplomacy cannot be an excuse for silence in the face of ethnic cleansing,
Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South, told The i Paper Nobody can any longer claim they didn't know, and don't know what's going on - a genocide,
I thought it was an unserious proposal,
Shapiro told sports media personality Stephen A. Smith on his show, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite I do think he'll take, and I think other countries will take also
When asked how he'd convince Abdullah to take in Palestinians, Trump told reporters last night No, they wouldn't. Because they're going to have much better housing... I’m talking about building a permanent place for them. If they return now, it will be years before it could happen—it's not habitable."
When asked if Palestinians would have the right to return, Trump responded in an interview to Fox News I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state. Because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada,
There's practically no building that's livable in the whole thing, on of the whole Gaza Strip. I say we go in, we knock them all down. We just create some — no more Hamas . There's no Hamas there. There's nobody there. We move them into beautiful areas of the Middle East,
Dealing with the Palestinian cause with the mentality of a real estate dealer is a recipe for failure,
If you ask me about the work that we did in the White House, for my critics, what I say is: point to a single decision we made that wasn't in the interest of America."
However, he defended himself in early 2024 in an interview with American news website Axios, saying We will definitely be doing other projects in this region. This region has explosive growth, and that's not stopping anytime soon."
Shortly before the Jeddah deal was announced, Eric Trump told British financial newspaper Financial Times