Trump’s Gaza Fantasy Exposes a Dilemma That Israel’s Leaders Would Like to Ignore

Trump’s Gaza Fantasy Exposes a Dilemma That Israel’s Leaders Would Like to Ignore

The nation has no good answer for its nemesis.

Assessing Trump’s Gaza Expulsion Fantasy

On February 4th, President Donald Trump said that all Palestinians in Gaza should leave the coastal enclave and go to other Arab countries such as Egypt or Jordan—a move that, if actualized, would mark a drastic chapter in the Palestinians’ history of being ethnically cleansed. Israel immediately embraced the idea, with the country’s war minister ordering the military to draft plans to facilitate a mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza. Palestin…