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Trump has made a proposal about moving 1.5 million people out of Gaza, to Egypt and Jordan, so as to make it possible to begin the immense work of reconstruction in the Strip. This suggestion was treated as absurd, bizarre, deserving only of gales of supercilious laughter. But the people of Gaza, many of whom, as soon as the ceasefire was declared, headed to their previous homes in northern Gaza, only to find them in ruins, and then quickly turned around and headed back to tent cities in the south, did not dismiss his proposal. Some of those Gazans are now clamoring to be allowed to go through the Rafah crossing in order to enter Egypt. They don’t think Trump’s suggestion was crazy. Nor has anyone opposed to his suggestion explained why it should be considered so laughable. Does anyone have a better idea as to how reconstruction can be undertaken in Gaza without removing some of its 2.2 million people? There is plenty of space in the Sinai where Gazans could be temporarily resettled until rubble can be removed and housing be built for them in the Strip. Those who want the best outcome for the Gazans — a return to normal life in the Strip, with Gazans settled in apartments rather than in the tents they are now living in, should not mock, but welcome Trump’s suggestion. As of now, despairing Gazans have been cursing Hamas for the ruin it has brought upon them; they have even allowed themselves to be filmed for Falasteeen TV denouncing the terror group — their rage has overcome their fear.
It is not only many Gazans who think Trump’s suggestion would make their own lives much easier, for they would not be condemned to living in the midst of a huge construction site, which is what Gaza will naturally become. A large majority of Israeli Jews support US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s population to other countries, a Jewish People Policy Institute Israel Index survey revealed Monday. More on this survey can be found here: “Approx. 80% of Israelis support Trump’s plan to relocate Gazans – survey,” Jerusalem Post, February
A large majority of Israeli Jews support US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s population to other countries, a Jewish People Policy Institute Israel Index survey revealed Monday.
The survey, which was published ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump in Washington, found that approximately eight out of 10 Jewish Israelis support Trump’s suggestion that “Arabs from Gaza should relocate to another country,” while most Arab Israelis oppose the proposal.
According to the findings, 43% of all Israelis believe Trump’s plan is “practical” and should be pursued, while an additional 30% of Jewish Israelis responded that the plan is “not practical, but desirable,” meaning they support the idea but do not see it as realistically feasible.
Almost half — 43% — of Israeli Jews think Trump’s proposal to move two-thirds of the population of Gaza out, to be temporarily resettled in Egypt and Jordan, so that reconstruction can take place, to be both desirable and doable. After all, the full reconstruction of Gaza will take up to 10-15 years. During that time a few hundred thousand Gazans can each year return, as the housing stock in Gaza is built. Both Egypt and Jordan have turned Trump’s proposal down flat, but he has yet to apply the kind of pressure that will change their minds.
Another 30% of Israeli Jews support Trump’s proposal, but consider it “impractical.” What does that mean? It means that they believe it’s impossible to achieve because of the refusal of Egypt and Jordan to take in those Gazans. But they are overlooking the fact that Trump has ways to overcome those countries’ refusal to take in Gazans: he can threaten to cut off the billions of dollars in aid that the U.S. government provides to both countries — close to $2 billion a year to Jordan and $1.7 billion to Egypt. That’s a large carrot if provided, a big stick if it is withheld.
However, 13% of Israelis believe Trump’s proposal is “immoral.” This group includes 54% of Arab respondents and only 3% of Jewish Israelis.
Only 3% of Jewish Israelis consider Trump’s proposal to move 1.5 million people temporarily out of Gaza “immoral.” That’s a very tiny number. Israelis know that such a move would help Gazans to live better while the reconstruction is going on, and they would no longer be subject to Hamas despotism. Neither the rulers of Egypt or of Jordan would allow Hamas to have any role in ruling over Gazan Palestinians in their countries. And with two-thirds of Gazans no longer living in the Strip, the ability of Hamas to launch attacks on Israel from Gaza would also be much diminished. Fewer people in Gaza also means fewer Hamas combatants.
The JPPI study also found differences in opinion in political views, with 81% of right-wing respondents saying the plan is both desirable and practical, compared to 31% of those in the Center and 27% of left-wing Jewish respondents….
Again, those who claim Trump’s proposal is “impractical” because Egypt and Jordan will not accept it ignore the enormous economic pressure Trump can bring to bear on the governments of both countries. It’s not just a question of ending the aid — a total of more than $3 billion annually — but also of putting tariffs on goods from both countries, a weapon Trump is fond of wielding. Both countries could also be blocked from buying American goods, especially weapons, as well as spare parts needed to replace aging parts in the American weapons that are already in the Egyptian and Jordanian arsenals.
If Trump’s pressure — both carrots and sticks — on Egypt and Jordan, were to be used, so that both countries agreed to take in a total of 1.5 million Gazans for resettlement, his formerly “impractical” suggestion would suddenly become “practical.”
In sum, nearly 80% of Israeli Jews support — that is, regard as desirable — Trump’s plan to remove 1.5 million people from Gaza and to place them in Egypt and Jordan while reconstruction is going on. How many years that might take is not clear, but estimates run from 10 to 15 years for a complete restoration of the Strip. Long before then some of those 1.5 million will be allowed back into Gaza, wherever housing has been built for them; residential housing should be the first priority of those doing the reconstruction. That plan will be good for those Gazans, for they will not be living in the middle of a construction site, nor will those temporarily settled in Egypt and Jordan any longer have to endure being ruled by Hamas. And it will, obviously, be good for Israel, which will have a much smaller number of people — and of the terrorists among them — to deal with.
Odd surprising article.Temporary is immoral as they get a rebuilt land but continue to hate.. So now that I hear it may be temporary….its unappealing.
Trump originally described an international land where I had assumed Jews would be welcome too. And that implied a lack of haters, terror, and a guarantee of an end to attacks on Israel as was Israel’s stated war goal. He spoke of the Gazans NOT returning but having a beautiful life elsewhere.. Why would people who held hostages in their homes as slaves get brand new homes? As a pay for slay and pay for hate?
Better to fight to victory eliminating the threat of more 10/7’s, as Gazans state they want to happen, the other obvious way.
Like the Elvis song went RETURN TO SENDER
The “Palestinian nation” was a product of Soviet money and Soviet terrorist training camps. Following Israel’s victory over Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, the Soviet sponsors of Arab countries realized that Israel could not be destroyed by standard military means. After the war, they launched an international propaganda campaign to convince the gullible of the world that Israel was not David and the Arab states Goliath, but instead that the reverse was true: the newly invented Palestinian nation was an indigenous David, and Israel was a white settler Goliath. To hammer home the point, they trained the PLO to hijack planes and carry out massacres. By 1970 (no earlier), the UN started to issue complaints about Israel’s infringement of the rights of this fictitious Palestinian nation.
Enough is enough. The Palestinian myth must die. If the Soviet Union was able to convince the world of this lie, Israel should be able to make some headway with the truth. Palestinian nationalism is simply the elimination of Israel – it has no other content. Arabs in Gaza never felt the slightest twinge of Palestinian nationalism while they lived under Egyptian rule until 1967. Likewise Arabs in the “West Bank”.
All 2.2 million Gazans (not 1.5 million) should be ejected permanently (not temporarily), to find a home among their fellow Arab nations. Israel handed them the whole territory of the Gaza strip in 2005, as one of the many delusory “land for peace” initiatives. This population has had billions of dollars of international “aid” spent on it to commit terrorist atrocities and to indoctrinate generations of its children into genocidal hatred. This will take further generations to undo (if it ever happens). They have lost the right to live in Gaza and must be ejected. Look at Pakistan, which has ejected a million Afghans after the US left Afghanistan, with no international outcry. Let the UN howl, and the ICJ wail, and the Irish PM simper – we know they don’t care about population displacement, but only about the destruction of Israel.
You can relocate people. But can you relocate Islam which is the proverbial root cause of the situation. Same as it ever was
Does it really matter where the Fakestinians are relocated? Move them to Egypt or Jordan….they will still hate the Jews and Israel. Move them to Iran…..they will still hate the Jews and Israel.
Obama already relocated a large number of them here…….they will still hate the Jews and Israel. And you can add the U.S. Trashida Tlaib is the primary proof of that.
I hope every Fakestinian is forced to live with that backdrop in the article picture. I hope they are forced to rebuild without USAID $$$s. It will be 100 years for the rebuild to take place. And it will still look like a s-hole.
Meantime Pallyweid promoter, (pro genocidal-palestine death cult with the Dead Baby Strategy), sex-criminal ICC Islamic Karim Khan is sanctioned.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/403885
the west doesnt want the jews to win the so called [ war on terrorism ] they want the gaza plan to fester interminably so they can use the fakestinian fiction as a stick to beat the jews . no one has the guts to call islam a terrorist entity prefering to say islamists are the problem . when in point of fact islam is not a religion of peace but a murderous cult . the world continues to cry in its soup as they villify israel . hamas gets a pass as freedom fighters regardless of their continuing atrocities . only israel is singled out as the problem . as recent actions attest in australia as 2 muslims threaten to murder jewish patients , they got the sack but as of yet no charges , the least that could happen is for them to be charged with hate speech which hasnt occured . everyone is wringing their hands in horror but the real horror is that the marxist govt. of australia have shown their true colours by supporting the terrorists in gaza by giving them 50 mill. no surprise then that the 2 in question will get a free pass as well albeit with no job . our national broadcaster the abc a leftist entity favours the fakestinians and the govt. lets all criticism of israel slide . the 2 state lie will continue to be their hobby horse regardless of the fact that hamas and the arabs dont want it . a one state is what they want and it doesnt include jews .