Israel's Netanyahu signals he's moving ahead with Trump's idea to transfer Palestinians from Gaza

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Israel’s Netanyahu signals he’s moving ahead with Trump’s idea to transfer Palestinians from Gaza

By MATTHEW LEE and NATALIE MELZER
Updated 2:38 PM EST, February 16, 2025

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday signaled that he was moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza, calling it “the only viable plan to enable a different future” for the region.

Netanyahu discussed the plan with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who kicked off a Middle East visit by endorsing Israel’s war aims in Gaza, saying Hamas “must be eradicated.” That created further doubt around the shaky ceasefire as talks on its second phase are yet to begin.

Rubio, in his upcoming stops in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is likely to face more pushback from Arab leaders over Trump’s proposal, which includes redeveloping Gaza under U.S. ownership. Netanyahu has said all emigration from Gaza should be “voluntary,” but rights groups and other critics say that the plan amounts to coercion given the territory’s vast destruction.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-15-2025-1cf8b3cb7622489c368c610f85e51e35

[moniss]

1. When the latest seige began after 10/7 many of us

said the real end game for the criminal Netanyahu and the rabid right in Israeli politics was to basically completely destroy Gaza and then do an annexation/takeover. We were assured by so many people that we were wrong and that as soon as the hostages were released everything would become a land of milk and honey. Netanyahu tipped his hand in the middle of the seige and said even if the hostages were released he was going to keep on his bombing and destruction. Some of us said that proved what we had been saying. Many people again claimed that his words didn't mean what they were.

So now here we are after a once again phony agreement and claims about a 2nd phase and lies told to the Palestinians by the West and Israeli negotiators about how this would be a way towards "2 states", a "peaceful homeland assurance" etc. All lies in order to get to a certain point and then break the promises. Again. It is no different in Lebanon. The IDF will not completely withdraw by 2/18 and nobody will do anything about it. The IDF will never withdraw from the additional territory they took in Syria after the fall of Assad.

[GreenWave]

2. And his actions also helped Trump to power.

[lapucelle]

3. If by "the west" you mean the Biden administration and its team, I don't think they were telling lies.

[Bayard]

4. In retrospect,

This could have been the plan all along, and Hamas is being used as an excuse to keep leveling Gaza for trump hotels.

[riversedge]

5. WTF!! ......." which includes redeveloping Gaza under U.S. ownership."

Since when does the US--or Trump own GAZA???

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