“I would like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say: ‘You know, it’s over.'”

“I would love for you to take on more, ‘cause I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”

“It is literally a demolition site right now, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there,” he said.

“So, I would rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    532 months ago

    And here’s the catch. I didn’t say anything before because i get how relieved people were over the truce and didn’t want to piss on hexbear’s hope for an end to the genocide, but you can’t trust a Palestine deal brokered by Trump.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      292 months ago

      Like, I think most of us here were cognizant of that

      But after 400 days of bloodshed, we were just happy to see anything slightly positive happen

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        142 months ago

        Yeah, i get that. Things have been so grim that i didn’t wanna spoil anybody’s hope. But … we’ve seen what Trump did to Palestine during his last term, we’ve heard how he talked about Gaza earlier in the war. This was always going to be just momentary maneuvering with the end goal to give Israel a short break before they continue extermination and displacement.

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          142 months ago

          I think now we should be setting up people for what is certainly going to be a return to the violence

          Preferably with the actual left in charge instead of mealy-mouthed Libs who are going to start wearing keffiyeh and watermelon pins and supporting Palestine just because Trump is maneuvering against it

    • queermunist she/her
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      212 months ago

      No shit, but in the meantime 600-900 aid trucks are entering the strip every day and the bombs have stopped. Without this ceasefire I think literally everyone was going to either die of disease or starve to death before the winter was over.