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President Trump’s explosive musing on the future of the Gaza Strip is a lot of things: dramatic, bold, historic. it is also breathtaking in its utter lack of common sense, and recognition of the human rights of the people who already live there, the Palestinian.
Where will they go? Stateless, unemployed, resentful, which other nation would risk its own stability to absorb 1.5 million hungry, frustrated, angry, heavily armed refugees? Canada? South Dakota? Africa?
Shaky Egypt doesn’t want them. Newly Islamist Syria will never accept them, and Israel would of course refuse to re-settle their blood enemies on the West Bank.
I predict the United States will have a viable habitation on the planet Mars before Gaza is rebuilt as an inclusive, idyllic sea front New Vegas or Atlantic City of the eastern Mediterranean.
Gaza is where dreams of peace and prosperity go to die.
Ask Jordan or Lebanon how their plans for Palestinian refugees have fared? How well have they been absorbed into those countries? The answer-after 70+years- is not at all.
And by the way, what happened to official US policy calling for a 2- State solution? Has the United States now abandoned our long-held goal of two states for two people?
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