Ethnic Cleansing is not Thinking Outside of the Box
President Donald Trump has promised to move Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and acquire the territory for the United States
A strong country using its power to take territory from a weaker people and then expelling them from the region is a tale as old as time, but in the words of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, in an interview on Fox News, President Trump is thinking “outside the box” when he declares his intention for the United States to remove Palestinians from their land, relocate them to countries like Egypt and Jordan, and to take ownership of the Gaza Strip. Here’s his announcement of this policy while standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Earlier, when asked about Palestinians returning to the Gaza Strip, President Trump stated, “Why would they want to return? That place has been Hell.” It has been Hell because Israel has treated it like an Indian reservation when it wasn’t actively destroying it and indiscriminately killing civilians en masse while being funded and armed by the United States, including during the previous and current Trump regimes. So, please, spare us the crocodile tears over the plight of the Palestinians, especially when you’re telling us how great it will be when you remove them from their homeland so that you can take it over yourself.
The idea that good-old-fashioned imperialism is somehow some new approach to Gaza and the Palestinians is obviously insane—Israel was founded by throwing Palestinians off of their land and out of their homes, and there are illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory to this day—but that’s what the Trump regime is selling us right now. The only thing new about this approach is that, instead of giving Palestinian territory to Israel, Trump is proposing that the Gaza Strip be taken over by the United States directly. The idea that the Palestinians are simply going to peacefully pack up and go to Egypt, a government that has rejected them many times in the past, including during the recently departed Biden regime, while America takes over their land, is equally, if not more, insane, despite Trump’s assurances.
This policy would lead to another endless war for the United States in the Middle East, the type that Vice President JD Vance said was “stupid” in an interview with Tucker Carlson before the November election, which I covered in my first beta episode of Never Say Nothing, below.
If you don’t think the United States should get involved in every stupid war in the world, then you’re a Republican. And if you think the United States should send billions of dollars and tons of innocent Americans to die in some foreign country, then you’re going to be a Democrat.
Assurances that the people who have been fighting for their homes and land—not to mention the terrorist organization that governs them—for the past several decades will suddenly no longer want to fight as you forcibly remove them to other countries, who have previously refused to take them anyway, are not credible. This policy will embolden and strengthen Hamas, and lead to a direct war with the United States. A truly America First foreign policy would be a completely anti-imperialist foreign policy, but President Trump’s selective imperialism misses the mark. Darryl Cooper is correct when he calls the United States’s relationship with Israel “all cost, no benefit,” and it would be even worse for the United States to get directly involved in taking over Palestinian territory. Taking the Gaza Strip does nothing for the average American, any so-called “jobs” created in doing so will be at the expense of the already struggling American taxpayer, and makes us a bigger target for future terrorist attacks. Less free, less safe, and less prosperous: That’s the outcome of this policy put forward by President Trump, and it is the exact opposite of outside the box thinking. It is, in actuality, all too common and exactly what Americans voted against when they elected Donald Trump to the White House.
