This is Trump’s plan, not Netanyahu’s. Let him move things forward and retract what he needs to
Perhaps one day, you’ll flip through Mishpacha and see ads for luxurious Pesach vacations at the five-star Trump Khan Yunis, towering 30 stories above Gaza’s gray, sandy beaches.
If President Trump seeks to please his Jewish constituents, the hotel will have separate kitchens and dining halls for guests who eat gebrochts and those who don’t.
In reality, it’s too soon to start diving into the niggling details. Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s Arab residents to Egypt and Jordan, among other undisclosed locations, and rebuild Gaza into a Middle East Riviera, is being hotly contested. Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egypt’s President Al-Sisi will try to thwart the president’s most disruptive plan yet on their upcoming White House visits.
No matter how you slice it, Trump’s initiative is groundbreaking. For 58 years, ever since Israel captured Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War, the international community has regarded Israel as an occupying power and pressured it to make concessions to the Arabs they considered to be occupied. During his first term, Trump’s State Department dismissed the idea that Israel was an occupier. Early in his second term, he is tasking Israel’s Arab neighbors with resettling Gazans.
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