Trump's plans for Gaza

BACKGROUND

1)Karen DeYoung andCate Brown,”Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population; The Trump administration and international partners are discussing proposals to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave,” Washington Post, September 2, 2025 ((Updated at 10:38 a.m. EDT).

2)Tom Moran: “Gaza Riviera talks offer a scary window into a dysfunctional White House,” Yahoo News, September 3, 2025 (11:43 AM PDT).

What are they smoking in the Oval Office and in Tel Aviv?

News reports suggest Washington and Tel Aviv are envisioning the “voluntary” self-exile of the population of Gaza to be followed by some fantasy of Donald Trump.

Are you kidding me?

What’s “voluntary” about victims fleeing ethnic cleansing or genocide?

What these proposals reveal is that Trump is stupid and delusional, and that without qualified foreign policy advisers he will propose one stupidity after another.

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He studied the history of Nazi Germany at Stanford, and has studied and worked on human rights, judicial reform, and access to justice projects in many countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and in Afghanistan and Russia. At Harvard Law School, he taught a course on “Law, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America”.

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