Donald Trump’s Surprise Plan for the Gaza Strip

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Donald Trump makes an offer for the United States to “own” the Gaza Strip and rebuild it, while Palestinians would relocate to countries like Egypt and Jordan. Is he sending a message to Hamas, or is this another element of Donald Trump’s unusual approach to foreign policy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:41.0	Donald Trump shocks the Middle East and maybe the world by offering to relocate two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the Middle
0:49.1	East and then own the territory, clean it up, and develop it. Critics have dismissed this as fantasy or worse, but is there a method to the seeming madness
0:59.4	of intervening in Gaza?
1:01.8	That's our subject for today on Potomac Watch, the Daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal
1:07.2	Opinion Pages.
1:08.1	Welcome on Paul's You Go, the editor of those pages, And I'm here with my colleagues, Bill McGern and Kim Strassel. So welcome. And well, Bill Donald Trump never ceases. And let's listen to him at a press conference Tuesday with BB Netanyahu.
1:24.9	The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too.
1:30.3	We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs
1:35.3	and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings,
1:41.3	level it out, create an economic development that will supply
1:45.0	unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area, do a real job, do something
1:52.9	different. Well, Kim, what in the name of Mar-a-Lago is Donald Trump up to here?
2:00.4	Well, if you listen to the press and Democrats and critics
2:04.3	of Donald Trump, this is somehow going to amount to ethnic cleansing as if he were going to
2:09.7	round up millions of Palestinians against their will and forcibly relocate them somewhere.
2:15.7	It's imperialism. It's obviously backtracking on all of his
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