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US government relativizes Trump’s plans for the Gaza Strip
With his plan to relocate 2 million Palestinians, the US President has triggered massive criticism – in the Middle East and at home. His consultants strive for damage limitation.
After violent international criticism of the plans of US President Donald Trump on the future of the Gaza Strip, the government in Washington tries to smooth the waves. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, the national security consultant Mike Waltz and the spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, tried to defuse Trump’s statements about the relocation of two million Palestinians and to put the possibility of a US military mission into perspective.
The US President announced the previous day at a press conference alongside the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the USA would “take over” the Gaza Strip and transform it into an economically flourishing “Riviera of the Middle East”. He repeated his previous statement that around two million people who live there had to leave the area. According to Trump’s will, they will in future be accommodated in other Arab countries in the region.
“It wasn’t intended as an hostile step,” said Rubio during a visit to Guatemala. On the contrary, he spoke of a “very generous offer” by the President. Rubio said that the United States is only concerned with making the coastal area habitable again. During this time, the Palestinians could not live there. Among other things, Israel’s neighbors Egypt and Jordan reject a resettlement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
Middle East consultant Witkoff: No US soldiers to Gaza
Trump did not rule out a US military mission in the Gaza Strip and explained that what is necessary will be done. In the election campaign, he had repeatedly promised to keep the armed forces out of international conflicts. The US special envelope for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said Congressmen in Washington, according to a media report, that Trump does not want to send US soldiers in the Gaza Strip and provide no funds for the reconstruction.
The US President’s statements on relocations from Gaza Strip had triggered sharp criticism both internationally and in the USA. According to experts, such a step would violate international law. The United Nations warned of “ethnic cleansing”.
EU also insists on a two-state solution
The Palestinians and numerous governments in the Arab world decidedly reject the plans. The European Union also reported concerns what Trump’s plans could mean for the peace process in the region. “The EU continues to campaign for a two-state solution, which in our opinion is the only way to a long-term peace for Israelis and Palestinians,” said a spokesman for the EU foreign officer Kaja Kallas. “The Gaza Strip is an integral part of a future Palestinian state.”
Even among Trump’s allies in the USA, skepticism was loud. “I thought we” chose “America first, the Republican Senator Randrand Paul wrote on the news platform X.” We are not entitled to consider another crew that destroys our state budget and shed the blood of our soldiers. “
White house: no US tax money for reconstruction
The spokeswoman for the White House also tried to downplay the consequences of Trump’s ambitious intentions. Trump’s plan “does not mean that the American taxpayers will finance these efforts,” said Leavitt. “It means that Donald Trump – the best shopmaker in the world – will make corresponding agreements with partners in the region.”
In an interview by the television station CBS, US security advisor Waltz suggested that Trump’s plan was not carved in stone and called on the allies in the region to present their own plans. “The fact that nobody has a realistic solution and he puts some very brave, fresh, new ideas on the table should in no way criticize,” he said. “The entire region will make your own solutions find if your Trump’s solution does not like.”
Netanyahu met with US defense minister Pete Hegseth during his visit to Washington. The United States is 100 percent of Israel’s security, said Hegseth, according to the Pentagon. Netanyahu and the Minister of Defense therefore agree that Iran threatened the stability in the Middle East and would have agreed to counter this challenge together.
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Source: Stern
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