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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    24 hours ago

    Single-issue voters, when EVERYTHING was at stake, deserve all the hate they get, but are too stupid to understand. The worst kind of trumpers, ones that don’t think they are.

    • John Richard@lemmy.world
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      Everything was at stake, so Democrats brought out Dick Cheney, Mark Cuban & continued spewed anti-Palestinian messaging to help Trump win. Got it.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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      Yup.

      I see no difference between a Trump voter and those stupid enough to vote 3rd party or abstain from voting.

      They are all scum, equally.

      • Freefall@lemmy.world
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        It isn’t blame, it’s observation. It is also not relivent to the second part of what you said.

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        Who else would you blame when you lost a vote?

        Something not directly involved?

        Beep boop?

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          Who do you blame for climate change? The sun, chemistry or humans releasing chemicals to the atmosphere?

          Arguably all 3 contribute to climate change, but only the last one is something you can change. So you blame humans, because it is the only productive option.

          In an election, you can blame the party that lost or the voters. Blaming the voter is about as productive as blaming the sun, distracting from what changes have to happen in the Democratic party to guarantee a win in the next election.

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

        Trump is the president of the United States and he has declared his intentions to ethnically cleanse and thus genocide the Gaza Strip. Americans who refused to vote for Kamala Harris are part of how we got here. American accelerationism harmed Palestinians.

        edit: Ethnic cleansing and genocide are inseparable. I’ve updated my comment to reflect this as Trump’s idea of a peaceful ethnic cleansing is completely and totally false.

        • glitchdx@lemmy.world
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          so, are we only allowed to say ‘genocide’ when criticizing democrats? but when republicans do it “it’s not a genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing”.

          • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            so, are we only allowed to say ‘genocide’ when criticizing democrats?

            Biden is complicit in genocide.

            but when republicans do it “it’s not a genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing”.

            Trump did call for ethnic cleansing. It’s good people are calling him out on this, because that is what he did. The issue is that we should all be calling him out on genocide as well. There is no such thing as a peaceful ethnic cleansing. So when Trump called for ethnic cleansing it was also a call for genocide. I found this relevant quote on wiki:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

            “How could ‘forced deportation’ ever be achieved without extreme coercion, indeed violence? How, indeed, could deportation not be forced? How could people not resist? How could it not involve the destruction of a community, of the way of life that a group has enjoyed over a period of time? How could those who deported a group not intend this destruction? In what significant way is the forcible removal of a population from their homeland different from the destruction’ of a group? If the boundary between ‘cleansing’ and genocide is unreal, why police it?”

            Peaceful ethnic cleansing is an oxymoron. Peace is mutually exclusive from forceful relocation.

            I will update my above comment to reflect this.