The reality of Trump's Gaza plan
The News Agents
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Last night President Trump floated the real estate agent’s vision for Gaza - a riviera in the Middle East, with waterfront property and barely a Palestinian on site. Is he suggesting seizing it? Buying it? Ethnic cleansing? Or a wild card route into diplomacy? We discuss with Layla Moran MP, whose family escaped Gaza last year.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. |
| 0:17.1 | We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other |
| 0:22.7 | weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, |
| 0:29.4 | create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for |
| 0:35.6 | the people of the area, do a real job. |
| 0:39.3 | There are two ways of seeing that line from Trump. He's calling it the Riviera of the |
| 0:44.6 | Middle East. Garsons are probably hearing that as ethnic cleansing. Today we're asking what he's |
| 0:51.7 | really on about. He's not really going to put American boots on the ground there. |
| 0:56.9 | So what is the idea behind his Gaza plan? |
| 1:00.8 | And why now? |
| 1:02.2 | Why at this critical moment when there is a embryonic ceasefire in place? |
| 1:07.2 | Saying stuff which is essentially ripping up the American foreign policy of the past 50 years. |
| 1:15.4 | Is there a serious and smart plan in there somewhere or is it just another day of headlines? |
| 1:22.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:27.1 | The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. The News Agents. |
| 1:28.3 | It's John. |
| 1:29.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:30.3 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:31.3 | And we are in day 16, I think, or day 17 of the Trump presidency. |
| 1:37.3 | And he's already laid claim to Greenland. |
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