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Are We Really About to Empty Gaza of Palestinians?, with Tony Badran

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump has repeatedly made a bombshell proposal: Empty Gaza of its 1.8 million Palestinian residents, resettling them elsewhere in the Arab world and rebuilding the devastated strip. Tony Badran, Tablet Magazine’s news editor, joins Liel to explain why Trump’s plan is deeply generous, why so many of Washington’s self-proclaimed best and brightest have gotten the Middle East wrong for so long, and about why the Abraham Accords are far from the panacea many still believe them to be.

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0:00.0

The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too.

0:06.0

We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous,

0:10.0

unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site,

0:15.0

and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out.

0:39.2

Hey there, and welcome back to Routless.

0:44.5

I'm Leah Lieberwitz, and I'll be honest, we had a totally different show planned for you.

0:49.0

And then Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Washington, D.C.

0:55.6

Trump launched a press conference, and some ideas were thrown into the ether. Ideas that are just too bewildering to ignore and so we we called in the heavy guns our best reservist if you will

1:03.1

back to duty straight out of south carolina tablet news editor tony badron hello my friend

1:08.6

hey what's going on i love i love seeing seeing those beautiful South Carolina trees in the background.

1:14.5

Tony, we have just woke up to this news of a very radical proposal shared by President

1:22.1

Trump yesterday.

1:23.4

We'll be honest, this is, everything is happening here in real time.

1:27.0

We're not here to offer

1:28.0

kind of like in-depth details into what our concrete proposals already on the table. We're not

1:33.4

here to talk, you know, D policy things. We're here to react to what is really one of the most

1:38.6

kind of bewildering and exciting, you know, ideas floated in a very, very long time. Before we go any

1:47.3

further, what was discussed? What's, what's Trump's plan, if you could call it that?

1:52.1

So the president of the United States, not once, not twice, not three times, not four times.

2:00.6

It's like, I think we're up to about a half a dozen times now,

2:04.6

including reading out from a document.

2:06.6

So it's not just off-the-cuff remarks.

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