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Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

www.theguardian.com Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

Donald Trump has said that Palestinians have “no alternative” but to leave Gaza due to the devastation left by Israel’s war on Hamas, in effect endorsing ethnic cleansing of the territory over the opposition of Palestinians and the neighbouring countries.

Speaking as he prepared to host Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, Trump repeated the suggestion that Gaza’s population should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt – something both countries have firmly rejected.

Trump claimed Palestinians would “love to leave Gaza”, telling reporters: “I would think that they would be thrilled.”

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Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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I'd ask protest voters if they're feeling pretty stupid right now, but the truth is they never gave a flying fuck about Palestinians. They only cared about feeling morally superior.
Trash humans.
- Your first thought reading this isn't about the human tragedy or people dying, nah, it's about making a told-ya-so point to your fellow american about how they should have picked your favorite genocider instead. You are trash, buddy.
  
  Yeah loser, my first thought after these dipshits sealed Palestinian's fate by not voting for the BEST candidate regarding Palestine while simultaneously placing our own nation in extreme jeopardy is to point out that they're fucking fools and WE all told them so before they made a huge fucking mistake.
  
  I like how you're being downvoted with no replies. Like, even "vote blue no matter who" shills know Kamala's position on Gaza was indefensible
  
  I call them "sore losers"
  
  even “vote blue no matter who” shills know Kamala’s position on Gaza was indefensible
  Herp derp, I guess we should vote 3rd party or not vote at all and guarantee that the worst possible candidate for Palestine gets elected. That'll help Palestine. Herp derp.
  
  I'm sure the kids being killed in airstrikes really care if the bombs were bankrolled by a blue or red administration.
- Yeah, because Kamala was so pro-palestine lmfao. The democrat party's policy was literally "maybe we'll support genocide a little less than the other guys. Maybe."
  Like, any sane party would have seen how polling showed that a huge chunk of your base rejected your stance on Palestine and reevaluated. But nope, Dems went full steam ahead with it.
  Like goddamn, you're here calling other people trash because they didn't want to support a candidate who was okay giving a blank check to a foreign country earmarked for carpet bombing civilians? Get over yourself jesus.
  
  Yeah, because Kamala was so pro-palestine lmfao
  What does that have to do with people who claimed they cared about Palestinians doing the right thing and voting for the BEST candidate regarding Palestine? Because Trump made it extremely clear he wanted Israel to steamroll Palestine and, oh shit, now that he's president that's the stance he's taking. WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS!?!?!?!?
  Honestly, you're doing a great job of personifying the exact fools I'm talking about.
  Like, any sane party would have seen how polling showed that a huge chunk of your base rejected your stance on Palestine and reevaluated.
  You realize that a responsible government can't just change its stance regarding allies every 4 years just to win an election, right? We would have no allies. It'll be a cold day in hell before we jeopardize our most important ally in the Middle East. So are you suggesting Democrats should have stooped to Republican levels and lied to the American people by saying they would stop supporting Israel and then just taken that back after they won?
  Like goddamn, you’re here calling other people trash because they didn’t want to support a candidate who was okay giving a blank check to a foreign country earmarked for carpet bombing civilians?
  No, I'm here calling trash people trash for pretending they cared about Palestinians and then refusing to vote for the BEST AVAILABLE OUTCOME for Palestinians. I mean, I guess you could argue that they aren't actually trash, but just really, really, super stupid people that somehow thought not voting for Palestinian's best shot would be a smart thing to do. I'm willing to meet you in the middle on that one.
  These dipshits sealed Palestinian's fate AND put our own nation in extreme jeopardy. They can honestly go fuck themselves.
  
  The amount of mental gymnastics you're doing to justify the Democratic party supporting genocide is genuinely sad. And I do mean that, like it's truly sad to me that so many people have convinced themselves that it's a fine and normal thing that a nominally progressive party should support the wholesale slaughter of innocent people. I didn't vote for that platform and I never will, because it's truly, fundamentally evil. "Oh but it's better then the other guy" so? I'm still voting to kill these people. I'd sooner not vote at all.
  If Kamala had won, I absolutely guarantee you the overwhelming majority of Democrats would have conveniently forgotten how we were bankrolling these terrible crimes overseas.
  
  The amount of mental gymnastics you’re doing to justify the Democratic party supporting genocide is genuinely sad.
  The amount of mental gymnastics you're doing to ignore the fact that these dipshits hurt Palestine more than they helped Palestine is genuinely sad.
  I didn’t vote for that platform and I never will, because it’s truly, fundamentally evil.
  Oh look, you're one of those dipshits. You should go to Israel so they can personally thank you for helping elect Donald Trump.
  I’d sooner not vote at all.
  I'm trying to find out where your rock bottom is and I'm starting to think there isn't one.
  
  So noble that you don't reject genocide on principle, only by if who does it is on your team or not
  
  So noble that you don’t reject genocide on principle
  This kind of shit is why adults can't take you children seriously.
  Do I actually have to type out the words "I AM AGAINST GENOCIDE" before you're willing to allow your brain to take common sense into account?
  Like, how slow do you have to be to not grasp that being against genocide and choosing Harris over Trump to minimize the fallout are not mutually exclusive?
  Dipshits who sat out the election or voted 3rd party didn't accomplish ANYTHING. They sat on the sidelines and cried like children while allowing the situation in Gaza to deteriorate to a maximum degree.
  
  Well, let's see here:
  Harris supported genocide You voted for Harris You effectively voted for genocide
  See, unlike you, I'm not okay with making such a compromise. Here's a crazy idea, instead of making the boneheaded decision to run Harris, the DNC could have run a candidate who was actually popular, or at least not notably unpopular. But no, we got the sidekick to genocide Joe.
  And let me remind you that the situation in Palestine got so terrible under Biden's policy of enabling Israel to no end. Seriously, Trump's been in office for a week or two, the overwhelming majority of the devastation is Gaza happened under a blue administration who was more than happy to give an endless supply of lethal aid to Israel for the last year and a half. FFS, if the Democrats had the spine to pull the pipeline of tax dollars to Israel within the first month of the ethnic cleansing, we never would have reached this point. Nearly the entire death toll in Gaza so far happened under Biden.
  But hey, go off on blaming the voters who voted based on some pretty fundamental moral principles instead of the DNC for giving unlimited unconditional support to Israel for well over a year now.
- You're the one who should feel stupid. You supported genocide out of pragmatism and you still lost.
  
  your dogmatism did nothing to stop genocide either. we are both in hell.
  
  Kiddo, why would I feel stupid when I voted for the BEST candidate regarding Palestine's future? I made the right decision while these fools wasted their vote on a 3rd party or didn't vote at all in protest, ensuring Palestine's worst-case-scenario, which is now happening.
  Do you tie your own shoes in the morning or do you use velcro?

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