Evening Edition: Rethinking Gaza Following War

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

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President Trump, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposed the possibility of the United States assuming control of Gaza to lead in its rebuilding efforts. The President suggested the Palestinian people be resettled somewhere else while the complete routing out of Hamas and the infrastructure rebuilding take place. The idea was immediately rejected by Arab nations of Egypt and Jordan, two nations President Trump has tried to convince to take in more Palestinians. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Richard Goldberg, Senior Advisor for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who says while there was some shock over President Trump's comments, we should not be shocked about him thinking differently about the Israeli-Palestinian long running conflict. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stuart Vonney. I'm Emily Campano. I'm Steve Ducey, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:09.1	Wednesday, February 5th, 2025, I'm Eben Brown. Will the U.S. administer the Gaza Strip?
0:16.9	President Trump announces a bold policy making Israelis smile and Arabs uneasy.
0:23.0	How far will this go?
0:24.8	How many times do we have to go through the same exact media cycle of everybody belittling something the president has said, oh, it's not serious, it's a negotiation tactic, oh, he won't do something, it keeps going. It gets serious. And somebody has to respond to it.
0:39.7	And they respond in a favorable way, which is what the president intended.
0:43.2	This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition.
0:50.9	I'm Dana Perino. This week on Perino on politics, I'm joined by former communications director and senior advisor to President Trump, Tim Murtaugh, available now on Fox News Podcast.com, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
1:05.5	There is much ado about what President Trump said during his White House press conference Tuesday evening
1:10.9	with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
1:14.0	While the president had already stated he wanted other countries in the Middle East,
1:17.8	namely Jordan and Egypt, to allow Palestinian refugees into their interiors,
1:23.0	he's now ready to reach into his real estate developers bag when it comes into the future of the Gaza Strip.
1:29.9	The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too.
1:35.1	We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,
1:42.4	level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings,
1:46.7	level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and
1:52.5	housing for the people of the area, do a real job, do something different, just can't go back.
1:59.6	If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.
2:03.2	And with that, the world began buzzing from Middle Eastern leaders to European Union heads of
2:09.3	government. Out came the reactions.
2:11.5	I think it's important to sort of back up and have some context to what the president said
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