Summary

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

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    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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    6 hours ago

    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.

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    8 hours 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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      11 hours ago

      People can weasel themselves around terms like “fascist” quite easily, because there are multiple definitions, many are very diffuse and there’s a lot of disagreement around it - but ethnic cleansing to my understanding is quite simple and this is it. Can any serious political commentator pretend it’s not? For example the forced removal of Poles from west Poland (annexed by USSR) after WW2 for example was not a slaughter, but is considered an act of ethnic cleansing.

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    The sheer audacity of treating sovereign territories like Monopoly properties reveals the bankruptcy of modern geopolitics. Trump’s alleged “Gaza swap” proposal – offering Egypt debt relief for absorbing a war-torn enclave – reeks of casino diplomacy where human lives become bargaining chips. This isn’t statecraft, it’s a foreclosure auction on human dignity.

    Egypt’s immediate rejection proves even authoritarian regimes recognize some lines shouldn’t be crossed. But the real tragedy lies in normalizing this billionaire’s mentality that every crisis is a leveraged buyout opportunity. From the Abraham Accords to this Gaza garage sale, it’s all about transactional trophy deals while ignoring root causes.

    The Mediterranean doesn’t need another real estate mogul playing Risk with refugee camps. This isn’t solving conflict – it’s outsourcing oppression through financial blackmail. The message is clear: human rights have become adjustable-rate mortgages in the hands of dealmakers.

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    Biden’s Gaza policy was tragic, but still, fuck anyone that voted to throw gas onto that fire.

    Guy behind the Muslim ban, with the Christian nationalist base, was always going to make things worse.

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      What gas? Biden tried to do ethnic cleansing as well. Biden tried pushing Egypt to accept Israels ethnic cleansing plan behind closed doors and push the Palestinians out of Rafah. Egypt refused.

      Biden helped Israel cleanse the West Bank. Do you believe they have right to return over there?

      Trumps difference is he is saying the quiet part out loud. And all it does is piss off Egypt and Saudi.

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      10 hours ago

      I said something similar a few months before he got into office, got down voted to hell.

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      Probably say “I gave them a chance, now we need to exterminate, since we have no other options”