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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  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    397·
    4 hours ago

    Accelerationism has made things worse for everyone. Now we have a US president who has declared his intention to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians. If you want things to get better then you have to act in a way that is useful to that end. That means voting for parties that are to the left of fascists and that have a chance of winning. In the US, that’s the Democrats.

    • Ghosthacked@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      2 hours ago

      I don’t think that legitimate elections are happening in 4 years. They’re gutting everything and installing their flunkies just as they said they would in p2025.

      The last election is where democracy died.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 hours ago

      I am afraid that the time to vote your way out of this is at an end. There is no way Republicans will willingly give up all three branches of government.

      • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        121·
        3 hours ago

        I am afraid that the time to vote your way out of this is at an end. There is no way Republicans will willingly give up all three branches of government.

        Musk has control of the US Treasury Department payment system. Obviously not. Fascists don’t hold elections.

        I’m trying to get people to act in their own self-interest. It may be too late for us, but someone might learn something someday. People who survive the collapse of the US and climate change might make better choices.

        If we don’t tell people what went wrong here they will do it again.

    • sozesoze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      105·
      3 hours ago

      You can’t make the survival of democracy hinge on everybody having to vote for you because else it would be getting even worse. You actually have to present an option that promises that things get better. Significantly even, since most people in the US are absolutely struggling.

      • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        132·
        3 hours ago

        As voters we had the opportunity to prevent fascism for four more years by voting for neoliberals. This would have given progressives and socialists another opportunity to co-opt the Democrat party. The failure of the Democrats to provide a compelling alternative does not mean we should be complicit in our own destruction and allow fascists to murder us.