“Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing”: Rashida Tlaib Slams Trump’s Comments on Gaza “Take Over”
Washington (Quds News Network)- U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib strongly condemned President Donald Trump’s bombshell announcement on Tuesday that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip and expel its Palestinian population. She referred to these statements as “fanatical bullshit” and attributed them to the “bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing.”
Tlaib said, “Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.”
“This president can only spew this fanatical bullshit because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing,” Tlaib wrote on X. “It’s time for my two-state solution colleagues to speak up.”
During a news conference on Tuesday alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump made controversial comments in which he suggested expelling Palestinians from Gaza, likely moving in American troops, and then developing the area as “the Riviera of the Middle East” for tourists.
However, during a news conference in Guatemala, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump had only proposed the reconstruction of the territory rather than claiming possession of it.
Similarly, Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy to the Middle East, reportedly told Republican senators at a closed-door lunch that Trump didn’t “want to put any US troops on the ground, and he doesn’t want to spend any US dollars at all” on Gaza.
Trump has been calling for weeks for neighbouring Arab states, Jordan and Egypt, to accept forcibly expelled Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
Trump’s proposals have been greeted with outrage by the Palestinians, Arab states and most of the international community.
