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Donald Trump stated that Palestinians displaced by Israel’s military actions would not have a right to return to Gaza under his plan.

Instead, he proposed resettling them in Egypt and Jordan, despite both nations rejecting the idea.

Trump suggested creating permanent refugee communities funded by the U.S., calling Gaza a "real estate development for the future."

His proposal has drawn condemnation from Arab nations and legal experts, with the UN warning it could constitute ethnic cleansing and violate international law.

Israel’s far-right settlers welcomed the plan.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Member when people were saying Kamala would be worse than Trump for Palestinians, LOL! How's that vote/abstain working out now?

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[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Wonder where all the people that fall for the Russian propaganda on Kamala are?

Probably found another single issue to base their entire political identity around. I know a lot switched over to the Gulf of America outrage.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Of course he does not. Every American president has always voted against Palestinian self-determination at the UN.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump seems to practicing a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship

Not sure if purposefully or just accidentally.

[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 34 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's ironic that China seems to be the country supporting the Palestinians, I kinda feel we might be the baddies.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Sadly every major power tends to be the baddies to some extent, it's how they get to be and stay major powers. We just get to grade on a curve. Nazi Germany really set the curve and the US got to be the pretty unambiguous good guys, at least up to the firebombing campaign in Japan, the nuclear bombs, and being complicit after the fact in Japanese atrocities by shielding them from consequences.

While we have an "ambient" level of baddie-ness most of the time, we at least have balanced it out by sometimes defending against unjust violence and providing humanitarian aid.

Now Trump seeks to turn that baddie scale up to the max while simultaneously cutting out all aid efforts.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aaaaand, why is the president of the US making plans for the people in a county he has no authority over again?

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump suggested creating permanent refugee communities funded by the U.S., calling Gaza a "real estate development for the future."

I will make the best Economy evah!

Lol no, om going to use the US funds to pay for millions of refugees that I artificially created so that I can have my very own Riviera for free

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The fiscally conservative party at its finest, everyone

[–] castmounted@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Cool plan dude except for the humanity and stuff

[–] tym@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real lesson of trump: you can get away with anything after you've conditioned your victims enough.

I read recently that all conservatism is is "I'm a good person and anyone who says otherwise deserved whatever I did to them."

Pretty sure this is how it all started in the 1930s.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

That is a hell of a sentence. Damn.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Did they ever really had rights? USA have been arming Israel for the past 50+ years.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I called it. Powers that be want that beachfront property.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These chickens will come home to roost, you know.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not surprising to say the least. Just have to wonder how bad will it get.

Edit: well that didn't take long. https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-gaza-ceasefire-should-end-saturday-if-hostages-not-released-2025-02-10/

[–] tym@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

Friendly reminder: The crescendo of the first six months of project 2025 is using civil unrest to deploy the US Military as a domestic police force. The accompanying suspension of habeus corpus is absolutely needed for them to turn up the heat even more.

They're laying the groundwork for defanging the judicial branch as we speak - it's their last obstacle.

From https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763 (emphasis mine):

"The Suspension Clause protects liberty by protecting the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. It provides that the federal government may not suspend this privilege except in extraordinary circumstances: when a rebellion or invasion occurs and the public safety requires it. "

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