Why Trump’s Proposal To Relocate Palestinians Won’t Work
Donald Trump’s latest proposal—to relocate 1.8 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip—may sound like a plot lifted straight from a TV sitcom, but it’s causing real alarm. In his audacious pitch to transform Gaza into a tourism haven, Trump revived an idea reminiscent of a Golden Girls episode, leaving Palestinians, Egyptians, and Jordanians reeling from its absurdity.
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But is this just another example of Trump’s theatrical politics, or is there a strategic purpose behind his words? Could this extreme idea be a distraction designed to make previously unthinkable compromises seem more acceptable?
In his latest opinion piece for The Media Line, veteran journalist Elias Zananiri dissects how such outlandish proposals reveal the dangerous gap between political theater and the reality of human suffering.
