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The first President of the United States Donald Trump ponders on the day of the opening on January 20 that the Gaza tape is a “phenomenal place” where “beautiful things can be done”. Then came an almost offer for a cuff on January 26, where he told Air Force One reporters that the Palestinians should be moved to Egypt and Jordan to “clean” the enclave.

The question of whether this is a serious proposal and whether any displacement of the Palestinians will be temporary or permanent is not clear, as Trump continued to make accidental comments on the topic.

But then on Tuesday, appearing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House – on the first official visit of a foreign leader after taking office of the new president – Trump cut a bomb “Take over” and “owner” GAZAHoping that the Palestinians will “go to other countries” in what will essentially represent an ethnic cleansing.

On Wednesday, his press secretary Carolyn Levitt said Trump had not committed himself to US troops on the spot in Gaza and that people who live there rejected by Palestinians, Arab countries – including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia – and many countries internationally.

Here is everything you need to know about Trump's proposal and whether it is serious or if its plan is even possible.

Why did Trump make his message in Gaza? And what does he really want?

Determining Trump's true intentions is often difficult. The man who released a book called The Art of the Deal is proud of his negotiations on insight and can be difficult to distinguish what is his starting position and what is the ultimate goal – or even if there is currently an end purpose.

“The attempt of psychoanalysis Donald Trump is an exercise of uselessness,” said Jasmine El-Gamal, an analyst of politics in the Middle East, to Al Jazeera. “Nobody knows what's in Trump's head.”

She continued: “It is difficult to imagine that she believes that (the US) can enter, push people, and as Trump said, invite the” people of the world “to live there. This is absolutely a fantasy … In the meantime, it is important not to normalize these types of ideas, but to take stock of the actual reality based on Arab positions. “

The message may be an attempt to make Israel's far right – who called for the illegal Israeli village of Gaza – happy after their anger with his support for ending fire to end Israel's war against the enclave.

This can also be interpreted as an attempt to impose Arab countries to finance the Gaza reconstruction – Trump National Security Advisor Mike Walz described the plan as potentially one of many. “(Trump's message) will lead the whole region to come up with its own decisions,” Wals said.

How much is the idea for the US to take a gas?

Trump's comments shocked even his most ardent supporters, El-Gamal, quoted South Carolina's Republican Senator Lindsay Graham as an example. Graham doubted support, even from Trump's base to make America to be US troops on the spot in Gaza, a point made by several other Republicans.

And then there is a reality of 2 million Palestinians who would be expelled from their land – by the vast majority Without the desire to goAs can be seen from the immediate return north of Gaza by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were displaced south of the territory during the war.

Undoubtedly, there will be no armed resistance to any effort to ethnic Gaza's ethnic cleansing, and although Israel breaks gas for over 15 months of fighting – killing more than 61,000 Palestinians – his army is unable to crush the Palestinian Resistance Forces.

In fact, although it inflicts Hamas losses, the group has According to messages He was recruiting as many fighters as he lost and fixed much of his infrastructure.

Tarik Kenny-Cavi, US Policy Policy in Palestinian Trule Al Shabaka, said there are many reasons why the mass expulsion of Gaza Palestinians will not play the way Trump says and would look at the president's chances To achieve goals, as a normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

“The US is” taking over “Gaza will not only prevent the chances of American interests in the region, but also face the very principles of the heart of America,” Kenny-Head said.

Republican senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a strict American isolationist who is popular with Trump's base, made this point in a social media publication on Wednesday, saying: “I thought we were first voting for America. We have no business to consider another activity to doom its treasure and spill the blood of its soldiers. “

Sami Hamdi, a journalist, advisor and political consultant, said it was difficult to imagine Trump's supporters to support the presence of US troops in Gaza. “Instead, Trump may insist on a compromise in which the regional forces that are warm for Israel form a regional” peacekeeping “force to contain gas,” he told Al Jazeera.

What is the position of Arab allies of the United States?

El-Gamal indicated that US partners in the region rejected Trump's proposal straight.

“Saudi Arabia was so found to broadcast the same message that it released a statement At 4:30 their time. They did not wait until working hours to say it was unfortunate, “said El-Gamal. “This cannot happen without the approval and participation of the Arab countries, so the question is what is the alternative to this plan?”

King Abdullah of Jordan is planned to visit the White House next week. The press secretary of Levitt said that the monarch could change his mind and accept Palestinian Gaza refugees, just like the other world leaders gave way to confrontations with Trump as he reunited the presidency.

Is foreign gas ingestion of a new idea?

Israeli politicians have long had the fantasy of taking gas.

Previously, Israel built illegal settlements in Gaza before former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon moved them in 2005. Israel has since quickly expanded the illegal settlements of the occupied West coast and occupied East Jerusalem.

Sharon justifies the separation of gas, claiming that the Jewish Israelis will never represent a majority in Gaza. However, Israel continued to control access to gas and airspace over it, applying a siege since 2007, which has led to the that the enclave is compared to an “outdoor prison”.

At the beginning of the war against Gaza, a document was leaked from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, the movement of Palestinians from the territory in the Sinai desert in Egypt.

Netanyahu played the idea of ​​public – ethnic cleansing is against international law – but his supporters, including ministers in the government, continue to push the idea. And after Trump's announcement, the Israelis of the whole political spectrum welcomed the idea.

“This idea is so meaningless, but this is what the Israelis have been pushing for a long time,” says Diana Butu, a former adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Israel Palestine expert.

“It's not unique to Trump,” she told Al Jazeera.

How does Trump benefit?

In March 2024, Trump's son -in -law Jared Kushner suggested Israel remove the Palestinian Gaza population and clean the tape, saying that “the ownership of the Gaza coast can be very valuable.”

He added that the population could be taken to Egypt or to the Disab Desert (Negev) in South Israel – Israel supports the first and refuses to examine the second.

Kushner is a real estate tycoon that was charged during Trump's first presidential mandate with the management of the Israeli Palestinian Peaceful process, which has been effectively inconsistent for about two decades, analysts say.

During his recent address, Trump repeated some of Kushner's moods.

“(We'll turn it into an international, incredible place. I think the potential for the Gaza Strip is incredible,” he said.

“And I think the whole world, representatives from all over the world, will be there and they will live there,” he added.

Buttu believes that Trump ignores the well -being of the Palestinians, their history or culture.

“Who are you to decide that we want the Riviera in the Middle East, which is completely inferior to our history?” It argues.

“(The bigger part) than the Gaza population is not even from the Gaza Strip and they just want to return to their homes (in today's Israel). Why is this not a more practical option? “

Is Trump's plan part of Netanyahu's goal to delete Hamas?

It is true that Hamas' “liquidation” is often cited as a goal and the cause of the destruction that is removed to gas, but observers say that Israel's true motives are different.

“This is the pretext of the Israelis to be sure. They have always insisted strongly about this type of “divine statement” to gas. This is coming back before October 2023, “said political consultant Hamdi.

“In this respect, the Israelis welcomes Trump's message (about the disposal of all people in Gaza). However, Trump also necessitated a ceasefire, which does not want many Israeli at all. My instinct is that Trump is not inclined to support the continuation of war and wants to find a way to empty the gas without one. “

Hamdi also doubted that Hamas could be completely eradicated.

“Many people still support Hamas. We saw this after the fire was terminated. The idea of ​​”resistance” is older than Hamas, and Hamas is simply a more recent manifestation of it, as the Palestinians are trying to stop Israel's relentless impetus to expel them from their homes, “he said.

“This is now asked by many people in Washington. If they enter there (as Trump said), the resistance can ignite on them. Are the US ready – and the US – ready for another Vietnam? “