After Advocating Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Feigns Concern for Palestinians While Pushing for Their Expulsion
Trump suggested that Palestinians have "no choice" but to leave their homeland.
Washington DC. (Quds News Network)- US President Donald Trump has renewed calls for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, insisting they should be relocated elsewhere. Despite framing his proposal as a humanitarian solution, Trump repeatedly described Gaza as uninhabitable and suggested that its residents have “no choice” but to leave.
“The people of the Gaza Strip have no choice but to leave,” Trump said. “Look, the Gaza thing has not worked. It’s never worked. I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of people. I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land. We’ll get some people to put up the money to build it and make it nice.”
Trump dismissed the idea that Palestinians want to stay in Gaza, calling it a “pure demolition site” that is “unsafe” and “unsanitary.” He claimed that if given the opportunity, “they’d love it” elsewhere.
“They’re there because they have no alternative,” he told reporters. “What do they have? It is a big pile of rubble.”
Trump had explicitly called for neighboring Arab countries to take in Gaza’s population. “I’d like Egypt to take people, and I’d like Jordan to take people,” he said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people. We just clean out that whole thing.”
His remarks echoed previous statements in which he urged Israel to quickly wrap up its genocide on Gaza. Last year, he told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom that he would have responded the same way Israel did after the October 7 military operation. However, he urged Israel to “finish up” its offensive and warned that international support was fading.
“You have to finish up your war. You have to finish it up. You’ve got to get it done,” he said.
Trump’s push for mass displacement aligns with statements made by his former senior foreign policy adviser, Jared Kushner. Kushner suggested that Israel should remove Palestinians from Gaza while it “cleans up” the besieged enclave.
“From Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner said, adding that Gaza’s “waterfront property” was potentially “very valuable.”
Trump’s remarks mark a continuation of his administration’s stance on the Israeli crimes, advocating for forced displacement while presenting it as a form of assistance.
