#Donald Trump Gaza takeover

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'Trump Gaza' Controversy: AI-Generated Video Of Dancing Musk, Sunbathing Netanyahu Sparks Outrage

KEY POINTS The video depicted a smiling Musk eating local food and partying with people It also showed a massive golden statue of Trump and mini Trump statues, as well as a “Trump Gaza” hotel It depicted Trump and Netanyahu enjoying cool drinks by a pool in between two modern hotels President Donald Trump was under fire after he posted an AI-generated video depicting what was labeled “Trump…

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With democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860. It will also be the weirdest. There are two fundamental facts about this campaign that do not appear to be making much of an impact on what, at least today, seems to be close to a majority of the electorate. The first and more obvious one is that few people in history have ever been less qualified to hold a position of any responsibility, much less the most powerful position in the world, than Donald Trump. If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear about the nation’s democratic traditions. The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president. Not everything has worked out, and one can certainly disagree with many of his decisions. His embrace of Bibi Netanyahu has clearly had disastrous consequences for Israel, Gaza, the United States, and likely for his own reelection prospects. But in terms of the way presidents are traditionally measured, Biden has been a smash. The U.S. economy is the envy of the world. Yes, inflation is higher than one would like, but jobs are plentiful, and so are raises for the people in them; wages are rising faster than inflation, as it happens. Violent crime is way down. Infrastructure investments are way up since 2020. Student loans are being forgiven. The labor movement is rebounding. We are leading the world in defending democracy in Ukraine. And yet, the danger of a Trump takeover remains as high as ever.

How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again?

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Trump's latest idea has renewed Democratic criticism of pro-Palestinian activists who encouraged voters not to back Biden or Harris in the presidential election.

Feb. 5, 2025, 2:56 PM MST

By Sahil Kapur and Yamiche Alcindor

WASHINGTON — Leaders of the pro-Palestinian movement that rallied opposition to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2024 election are standing by their strategy amid new criticism that they weakened the Democratic ticket after President Donald Trump said he wants to “take over” the Gaza Strip.

Trump’s remarks, which came as a shock to prominent officials in Washington, sparked a new round of recriminations among Democrats over the pressure campaign from advocacy groups against Biden and Harris in the presidential contest over the Israel-Hamas war, even though Trump’s record on the Middle East had been more hostile to the Palestinian cause.

Layla Elabed, a co-chair of the “uncommitted” movement — which declined to endorse Harris, Trump or any candidate in the 2024 election — said she felt “sad, angry, and scared for our communities” after the president’s Tuesday remarks, in which he also said Palestinians have “no alternative” but to live elsewhere.

But she maintained that both sides were to blame.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5133161-donald-trump-gaza-proposal-israel-takeover/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/07/trump-gaza-redevelopment/

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-is-no-rush-gaza-2025-02-07/

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Israeli journalist Barak Ravid drew gasps this month when he told the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly, “We are much closer to Israeli settlements being built in Gaza than hostages coming home from Gaza.” This is hardly news to anyone paying attention to Israeli governmental policy, but it introduced an unwanted chill into a conference that aimed to focus on “Jewish unity” and unspecified “support for Israel.”

Like other American Jews with strong connections to Israel, and dozens of friends and family members there, I have spent many a sleepless night worrying about the fate of the country, and furiously WhatsApping loved ones there to check on their safety. We may want to believe that Israeli leaders are trying to do what is best for their country and its residents. When we see news of yet another teenage soldier killed in Gaza or Lebanon, we want to believe that their sacrifice is not in vain but is making Israel safer.

But this is not a moment for surprise or for more rousing shows of vague “support for Israel.” It is a moment for anyone who cares about the future of the country and the people who live there to sound the alarm and wake each other up.

The settler movement has achieved a full takeover of the Israeli government, and they make no secret of their intentions: to resettle Gaza and officially annex the West Bank. Israeli leadership views the election of Donald Trump as clearing the path for this goal. Israel’s Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich said as much explicitly earlier this month. This past Sukkot, Likud members of Knesset took part in a conference on resettling Gaza held in a closed military zone meters from the strip, with the IDF protecting participants while pushing back hostage families who had come to protest.

High level Israeli officials have testified that Netanyahu has entirely abandoned the hostages and torpedoed any attempt to free them. Instead, he is continuing the war to advance his political survival and to allow for the reoccupation and resettlement of Gaza. One of his high level aides has been arrested on suspicion of passing information to a German newspaper, allegedly at the  prime minister’s behest, in order to sway public opinion against a hostage deal. Even former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, fired apparently for supporting such a deal, has said publicly that there is no reason for the war to continue and that Israel is on its way to military occupation of Gaza.

There is increasing evidence that the army is implementing the “Generals’ Plan,” which aims to displace all 300,000-400,000 residents of Northern Gaza by preventing any humanitarian assistance from entering, bombarding the territory, preventing residents from returning and re-establishing an Israeli military occupation, followed inevitably by resettlement.

Meanwhile, Gaza itself has become a humanitarian disaster. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed — yes, including militants and terrorists, but also including thousands of children and entire families. The U.N. estimates that women and children make up 70% of those killed. Large-scale hunger and disease will likely only grow worse if and when Israel implements its recently passed laws that would prevent UNRWA,  the main U.N. agency serving Palestinians, from operating there. In the West Bank, settlers carry out near daily violence against Palestinian villagers and farmers, with near complete impunity, often with the protection or assistance of the army.

The news that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant (along with Hamas’s Mohammed Deif, who is likely dead) engendered the expected cheers from the global left and defensive outrage from the Jewish and Israeli establishment. But for anyone who cares about Israel’s future, these arrest warrants should be cause for deep sadness and alarm. It is a tragic moment when the prime minister of the Jewish state has sunk so low — and brought the country so low — that he can credibly be accused of war crimes, while simultaneously torpedoing any internal inquiry that could have staved off the ICC warrants.

In early 2023, it seemed like the electoral ascendency of Israeli extremist parties, combined with the mass anti-government protests that rocked Israel, might shock mainstream American Jewry out of their usual uncritical support. A September 2023 protest against Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations drew thousands of Israeli expats and American Jews, including prominent rabbis and communal leaders. Even some legacy Jewish organizations, not accustomed to criticizing Israel, registered their disapproval of the attempted judicial overhaul.

The horrific massacres of Oct. 7 moved many American Jews back into the more familiar narrative of “Israel under attack.” The shocking willingness of some pro-Palestine activists to justify or deny Hamas’s atrocities and to dehumanize Israelis, coupled with a rise in violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, channeled communal energy into fighting antisemitism. And the real threat from Iran, including direct missile attacks as well as more than a year of rocket fire from Hezbollah before this week’s truce, has generated existential fear for Israel.

Mourning and fear must not distract us from the reality that the biggest existential threat to Israel, and indeed to Judaism itself, is coming from Israel’s governing coalition. Israel is not an object of worship or vehicle for Jewish identity. It is a real country with an increasingly authoritarian government committed to perpetual war and settlement. This is both a moral travesty and a danger to the state and to Judaism.

More than 50 years ago, the religious Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz warned, “A calf doesn’t necessarily need to be golden; it can also be a people, a land, or a state.” Jews wearing kippahs and tzitzit who ransack Palestinian villages, sometimes even violating the basic laws of Shabbat to do so, who recite Shema while burning down a mosque, or who build a sukkah in a Palestinian village or in the middle of Gaza, have replaced worship of God with worship of power and sovereignty. They would happily destroy the actual state of Israel in order to achieve their dangerous vision of Jewish control over the entire biblical land of Israel, no matter the human or political cost.

Three decades ago, Prime Minister Netanyahu famously accused the left of “forgetting what it means to be a Jew.” But it is Netanyahu and his allies who have forgotten the basic foundations of Judaism. These include pidyon shevuyim — redeeming captives — considered one of the most important commandments, and the most basic commitment of a Jewish state, not to abandon its own people.

Some American Jews believe that we have no right to comment on matters of Israeli security, or that any criticism of Israel fuels antisemitism. And yet, too much of the American Jewish community gives a pass to organizations that have supported Netanyahu’s drive toward autocracy and settlements, and even refused the pleas of hostage families to call for a deal that will end the war in Gaza and bring their loved ones home. American Jews must not stand by as Israel descends into authoritarianism and messianism which are doing irreversible, generational damage. Supporting Israel can no longer mean sporting flag pins, attending “unity” rallies, or trying to shut down any speech critical of Israel.

Rather, support for Israel and its people must mean standing with the Israelis desperately working to save their country from fanaticism, never-ending war and the settler agenda. Painful though it certainly is, supporting Israel today requires setting aside our disbelief that Israeli leaders could act with total disregard for the wellbeing of Israelis, let alone Palestinians. It means no longer giving Netanyahu and his ministers the endless benefit of the doubt.

American Jews can begin by sending our charitable dollars to the brave Israeli civil society organizations rather than to groups that explicitly or implicitly promote settlement and anti-democratic legislation. It means putting pressure on both the Netanyahu government and the U.S. administrations — outgoing and incoming — to end the war. We can demand that the U.S. follow its own laws and require Israel to adhere to the same guidelines for military aid that other countries do, including ensuring transparency in how aid is used. This includes enforcing the deadline for increasing the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Such measures are not an abdication of the security of Israelis, but rather a means of pressuring Netanyahu to end the war and bring home the hostages, allowing Israel to move toward internal investigations and new elections. And we can insist that our communal organizations stop burying their heads in the sand and instead push back on the Israeli government’s dangerous agenda.

It’s time for American Jews to take a strong moral stance for human life and human rights. This would be the truest expression of support for Israel and Israelis, as well as Torah and Judaism.

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Jim Acosta at The Jim Acosta Show:

America, you’ve been had. Where to begin? The Gulf of America? Gaza, “The Riviera of the Middle East?” The Kennedy Center? Talk about “the weave.” Can somebody point me to the pivotal moments during the 2024 campaign when Donald Trump discussed his ideas for renaming the Gulf of Mexico or a U.S. takeover of the Gaza Strip? He had plenty of opportunities for laying out such proposals, considering his long, meandering rallies where he rambled about Hannibal Lecter, sharks and windmills. Trump found the time to peddle the outlandish lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating cats and dogs. Never did we consider the notion he would sit on the board that decides whether “Les Misérables” would make its triumphant return to the nation’s capital. In fact, “Les Mis” is coming back in June, well, at least for now. Tickets are available.

What about “The Village People?” Stay tuned. Add Kid Rock and Ted Nugent to the mix and you’ve got a Trumpapalooza in the making. Just think of all of the Trump products that could fill those merch tables (he must have a warehouse of this stuff somewhere), from faux gold sneakers to vintage Trump ties (not made in the USA natch).

Yes, Americans are now waking up to the reality that their downloads of Trump Version 2.0 have come with some serious malware. The pardons and commutations of all of the January 6th rioters and insurrectionists went way beyond what even his own Vice President, the mostly invisible J.D. Vance, contemplated when he suggested that Trump would opt against clemency for the criminals who beat up cops. No wonder 47 doesn’t really see Vance as much of a 48. Trump on Vance 48.

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And then there’s the absurd monstrosity that is Trump’s idea to have the U.S. occupy the Gaza Strip. Put aside his crass promise of turning the region into the “Riviera of the Middle East” or the grotesque notion that America would somehow be a part of the forced removal of the Palestinians from the area. I’m old enough to remember the then-reality TV star and real estate developer savaging President George W. Bush over his handling of the War in Iraq, something Trump once described as “the single worst decision ever made.” Trump on Bush/Iraq After ruling out the idea of putting U.S. military boots on the ground in Gaza, Trump has yet to explain how he would “take over” the area. It won’t be USAID. Were voters ever aware that Trump, upon returning to the White House, would utter this sentence: “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the US by Israel at the conclusion of fighting.” Take a moment and read that sentence. Read it again. Trump on Gaza The same Trump who ran on “no new wars” during in 2024 has been weaving like an old-fashioned 20th century expansionist, with talk of other takeovers. The Panama Canal? Mine! Greenland? Mine! Canada? Mine! Am I the only one thinking about that classic Daffy Duck cartoon? Daffy Duck: It's mine! [...] Still, in this not-so final analysis, the Trump 2024 campaign appears to have been the ultimate bait and switch. And it’s way worse than Trump’s lie that he had nothing to do with Project 2025. Voters were sold on Trump’s plans for inflation and immigration. But the gap between those proposals and what is being contemplated in the Oval Office these days is about the size of the Gulf of Mexico America.

This Jim Acosta column is a gem: Trump’s 2nd term has come with loads of malware infecting the USA that voters didn’t want.

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President Donald Trump's plan for the US to "take over" and take “ownership” of Palestine’s Gaza, removing its native Palestinians population to create the "Riviera of the Middle East," has drawn stark criticism globally as an overt attempt to forcibly displace the enclave’s indigenous Palestinian inhabitants.

Announcing his transformation prospects at the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Trump said that, “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it … level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area."

"I think the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable," he added.

Western media giants framed Trump’s Gaza takeover proposal as an “innovative” and “courageous” business opportunity, portraying the plan in a positive light, with many headlines omitting any mention of the Palestinian territory’s residents or the consequences for the two million Palestinians displaced inside the besieged enclave – namely, further displacement and eventual erasure.

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Brazil's Lula rejects Trump plan for Gaza and tariff threats as 'bravado'

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, and dismissed his expansionist ambitions and tariff threats against trading partners as "bravado".

"No country, no matter how important, can fight the entire world all the time," the Brazilian leader said in an interview with local radio stations when asked about Trump.

Trump on Tuesday proposed a U.S. takeover of Gaza to create a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere, sparking criticism from international powers.

"It makes no sense ... Where would Palestinians live? This is something incomprehensible to any human being," Lula said, defending a two-state solution and repeating earlier denunciations of Israel's military action in Gaza as "genocide".

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Trump Doubles Down On Gaza Takeover Plan

Washington DC: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) doubled down on his threat of the United States “owning” the Gaza Strip by displacing the 2.2 million Palestinians living in the enclave to neighbouring countries as he met Jordan King Abdullah II– now of America’s closest Middle East allies.  “We’re going to have Gaza. We don’t have to buy. There’s nothing to buy. We will have…

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(Quds) “The United States views Gaza as a real estate transaction, and we will be investors in that part of the world, with no rush to do anything.”

This is what U.S. President Donald Trump stated during a press conference when a reporter asked him: Any further deliberations on the Gaza Strip or a timetable for takeover.

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Donald Trump is supportive of a total takeover of Gaza….. I’m so tired.

[fatalquiete]

...ecco, adesso posso anche strapparmi gli occhi da solo.

"US President Donald Trump today posted an AI-generated video of 'Future Of Gaza' after US takeover on Truth Social."

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https://www.themarysue.com/riviera-of-the-middle-east-trump-sparks-global-fury-over-gaza-takeover-comments/