Donald Trump’s toxic remarks on Gaza reveal lack of joined-up thinking
US president has already caused trouble abroad and at home with incoherent ideas about Middle East politics
The suggestion by the US president, Donald Trump, that Gaza's Palestinian population could be cleaned out" and moved to Egypt and Jordan, repeated on 5 February when he added that the US should take over Gaza', is an idea that has long been circulated by the Israeli right.
Over the decades since the Six Day war in 1967, when Israeli forces first captured the Gaza Strip, which had been under Egyptian military rule, Israeli officials and commentators have periodically pushed the notion that Palestinians in Gaza could be resettled in Egypt.
This piece was first published on 27 January 2025 and was updated on 5 February 2025 to reflect Trump's latest comments
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