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Trump's idea to 'clean out' Gaza threatens Jordan, Egypt: analysts

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What do you mean? He's just going to get nominated for another Nobel Peace Prize for this!!! /s

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It's worth nothing that forcibly removing the injured and starving will inevitably lead to some people being permanently "cleaned out".

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Why is the media not using the term 'ethnic cleansing', which is what Trump's plan is.

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*worth noting

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Expulsion people from their homeland, US really good at it, that just what happened to Indians people that currently reside in Oklahoma. Now US try suggest the same thing to those Palestinians, even those Palestinians already stay in their land long before SS Exodus that brought holocaust survivor arrived in Palestine port.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-trail-of-tears-and-the-forced-relocation-of-the-cherokee-nation-teaching-with-historic-places.htm

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SS Exodus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Exodus

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Ethnic cleansing. The last time the Palestinians left Israel they were refused to go back. 4 million refugees are living in other countries.

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Send the Jewish Israeli people back to Europe.

Create a Palestine state and let that Government decide how many have "right of return "

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UNRWA being closed by Israel in about 3 days.

That,ll help....

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Ethnic cleansing. 

Exactly. And if Trump wants to do that, let the Palestinians come to the US.

You break it, you own it.

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How many hundreds or thousands are buried under the destroyed buildings? It will take many decades to reconstruct Gaza back to the pre-war level.

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sakurasukiToday 07:34 am JST

Expulsion people from their homeland, US really good at it, that just what happened to Indians people that currently reside in Oklahoma. Now US try suggest the same thing to those Palestinians, even those Palestinians already stay in their land long before SS Exodus that brought holocaust survivor arrived in Palestine port.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-trail-of-tears-and-the-forced-relocation-of-the-cherokee-nation-teaching-with-historic-places.htm

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SS Exodus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Exodus

Because of course something similar never happened as a result of every other Western nation and China/russia? Get real.

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Send the Jewish Israeli people back to Europe.

No, they’re right in their homeland

Create a Palestine state and let that Government decide how many have "right of return "

Oh, here we go with the dreaming again….

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How many will perish on this journey?

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Trump stated he wants to "clean out" Gaza. Take back the "Panama Canal." Take "Greenland" from Denmark.

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sakurasuki

Expulsion people from their homeland, US really good at it

"Homeland" is debatable, since historically both muslim Arabs and Jews lived in the Gaza area. The Jews were forcibly removed in 2005, leaving Gaza an ethnically cleansed muslim Arab area. Since then, the population has grown massively, partly by immigration from other Arab countries.

I do not know how any new population transfer would work out, what I do know is that Gaza deserves to be liberated from Hamas.

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wallace

Trump stated he wants to "clean out" Gaza. Take back the "Panama Canal." Take "Greenland" from Denmark.

He said "buy" Greenland from Denmark. Not "take". Words have meanings.

In the event, I predict he will in the end buy Greenland, but not from Denmark, but from the Greenlanders once they declare full independence.

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wallace

Ethnic cleansing. The last time the Palestinians left Israel

False. Not all muslim Arabs left. The remaining ones constitute about a fifth of the Israels population and have the same citizen rights as every other Israeli (with the exception of military service, which is voluntary for them).

they were refused to go back. 4 million refugees are living in other countries.

False. Any remaining person who left the area at the time of the founding wars would be in their 90s today. There are very few left. What you call "refugees" are descendants of refugees, which probably most of us are. The idea that "refugee" is an inheritable status is new and is only applied by the UN to muslim Arabs who fled Israel. (Why that is should be debated).

You might want to check facts more often.

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Trump means "take" even against the will of the Inuits. How do you put a price on a country rich in minerals? Trump will never pay a fair price. The Inuits won't declare independence while Trump is in office. It will take much longer than that.

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Zaphod...,tis you who needs to "check facts more "

Consistently wrong, consistently repeating propaganda.

The "right of return " is a real issue , before the UN Courts who have ruled on this.

In your mind, Israel can do no wrong.

Well, that is wrong.

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wallace

Trump means "take" even against the will of the Inuits.

That is your attempt at mind-reading. Your Trump-whispering skill seems admirable, but the fact is he said "buy", not "take".

Facts matter.

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GuruMick

The "right of return " is a real issue , before the UN Courts who have ruled on this.

Of course it is an "issue". A very important issue, as letting millions of self-declared muslim Arab "refugee" flood into Israel would be demographic end of the Jewish state.

Nothing I stated about the issue was wrong. If you think so, clarify.

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That is your attempt at mind-reading. Your Trump-whispering skill seems admirable, but the fact is he said "buy", not "take".

1 dollar or $10 trillion.

The Inuits and their leaders have stated they want to be independent but not part of the US. Will Trump force them?

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The "right " and their squarkee parrots use Anti Semiticism as a tool to push racism and Islamophobia.

Not falling for it.

Jews are not a caricature to be used for political purposes unassociated with anti semiticism

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Zaphod...the world has seen what certain "identified states ", Jewish or otherwise, look like.

Apartheid South Africa.

Jews can live with Muslims if leaders push the idea.

Dont see why "Jews " need their own state, to the exclusion of others.

Ghandi said "if a Jew is born in France, he is French "

Religion shouldn't determine nationality.

Where should all the Zoroastrians go ?

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wallace

The Inuits and their leaders have stated they want to be independent but not part of the US. Will Trump force them?

No, he won't. And what the Greenlanders say at the moment is irrelevant, as Greenland is still Danish territory. Once they gain full independence, everything changes.

Facts matter.

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GuruMick

Zaphod...the world has seen what certain "identified states ", Jewish or otherwise, look like.

Israel was created by the UN as one of the states for thew two Palestinian people, meaning Jews and muslim Arabs. That is a fact. You can think of it what you want, but the history of its establishment is on record.

Again, please state what you think I said about the muslim Arab population and about the inheritable "refugee" status is wrong in your mind.

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Trump is right. Gaza needs to be cleaned out

Genocidal maniacs often use household phrases like, 'Clean Out', or 'Final Solution' instead of ones like 'Eradicate', or 'Eliminate'.

Makes 'murder' so much more palatable for their vicious followers.

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Genocidal maniacs often use household phrases like, 'Clean Out', or 'Final Solution' instead of ones like 'Eradicate', or 'Eliminate'. 

They also say "good morning", "how are you". So what?

Makes 'murder' so much more palatable for their vicious followers.

Good that is not the case, as Trump is the leader of the biggest peace-loving country in the world and he is supporting another peace-loving country Israel, in trying to deal with genocidal maniacal leaders in Gaza who try to make mass murder more palatable for their vicious followers.

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Iknowall and Zephod could connect with various UN and even Israeli human rights groups determinations on subjects you raise.

I am too tired for troll baiting

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Truth is the greed of the usual warlords in Wall Street will always try to prioritize their economic interests over the human rights and indeed lives of the residents in Gaza, West Bank and indeed any part of Israel's illegal occupation.

That is what I call the moral authority of America and his main ally in Middle East

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