President Donald Trump says he’d like to see Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — potentially moving out enough of the population to “clean out” the area to create a virtual clean slate.

“Something has to happen,” Trump said. “But it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there.” He added: “So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”

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    Greater of two evils turns out to be greater than imagined. Protest votes in shambles, denying that this was entirely foreseeable.

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          all except the part where you call it a genocide, it was, and is a war against an embedded terrorist fucking army (two if you count palestinian islamic jihad along with hamas). don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys, or antisemitic islamofascist arab terrorists, it won’t be good for them, and anyone trying to hide them or their weapons. genocide. lol. against arabs in the middle east. fuuuuuuck.

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    Trump says he wants to commit another genocide

    Seriously, that is what that headline says, and nobody bays an eye anymore because it’s trump so of course he’s saying this shit

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    Not giving civilians the chance to flee the warzone during a war is unique to this war. In any other war, civilians would have fled the country until the war is over.

    Those who could afford to pay the necessary bribes to Egypt left. Most were forced to stay.

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    Resettling Palestinians elsewhere seems like a straightforward solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Honestly baffling no one else thought of this given how many decades this thing has been happening.

    -A very stable genius, apparently

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      What could possibly go wrong with the forced insertion of a group of people into a concentrated geographic region?

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        Jordan is already majority Palestinian. It even used to be part of the British Mandate for Palestine. Culture and language in Jordan are very close to Palestine in general.

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          Ignoring the genocidal premise of forcibly moving Palestinians off their land after Israel just razed their houses, Jordan is a tiny country of 10million people who have their own cultural identity beyond being Arab or close to Palestine.

          They are already home to 3 million refugees, most of whom are Palestinian, and 1 million are Iraqis. To ask them to take on anyone else is beyond a joke. Especially when Israel and the US have spent decades finding new ways to destabilise its neighbours and make them flee into its borders. Jordan is also not a rich country. Wealthier countries need to step up, and that should include the US given its culpability in this genocide. But the US has just elected a man-baby who will bemoan its international responsibilities for the next 4 years so there’s no chance of that happening.

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            I understand where you coming from but that view seems half informed. The whole cultural identity argument was also pushed by Arafat as a way to force Palestinians to stay in Gaza instead of assimilating into Israeli society or leaving to Egypt, Syria, or Jordan

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            Most of the millions of Palestinian refugees living in Jordan were born in Jordan. They are descendants of refugees from 1948 and 1967. They live in regular housing. The so called Palestinian refugee camps ins Jordan look and operate like normal towns.

            To ask them to take on anyone else is beyond a joke

            Maybe the people of Gaza should be asked what they want. I’m sure some would prefer living in Jordan.

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              The so called Palestinian refugee camps ins Jordan look and operate like normal towns.

              Having been there and seen them, no they are not. In addition, Palestinians in Jordan do not have the same rights as Jordanians.

              I’m sure some would prefer living in Jordan.

              You have just breezed past the point that Jordan has one of the highest percentages of refugees in the world, they are not a rich country, and the fact that some colonialists want to dump more on them is a crime.

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              Your post history shows that you’re an unrepentant genocide denier, so don’t try to pretend that you care what the people of Gaza want. Especially not when your original comment boils down to ‘they’re all Arabs, they should live with the other Arabs.’ Which is a much loved, but entirely bullshit Zionist argument that has been used to dispossess the Palestinians for decades.