Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warmly welcomed at the White House by U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday. The meeting between the two partners in crime reportedly didn’t conclude with any announcements — not on tariffs, not on Iran and also not on the Gaza ceasefire and the deal to get out the Israeli captives.
According to reports from Washington, much of the conversation between Trump and Netanyahu dealt with expelling Palestinians from Gaza.
Trump mentioned Gaza, saying that he doesn’t understand why Israel gave up that territory to begin with, something of course, that legal scholars would dispute. And then Trump went on to say that it would be a very good thing if the U.S. was to take over and control Gaza.
For his part, Netanyahu spoke about his supposed conversations with leaders of countries who were willing to take Palestinians, if they had the freedom to exercise a choice of where they wanted to go.
Of course, we know already Palestinians do not want to leave Gaza, but they do want the war to end, and legal scholars have already said that plan is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
