Trump’s Gaza remarks are no surprise: ethnically cleansing was always the plan | Arwa Mahdawi

If Trump executes his plans, it's because the media helped pave the way. It's beyond time for more of my colleagues to speak up

They make a desert and call it peace," said Tacitus, paraphrasing Calgacus.

Israel, meanwhile, has made a graveyard of Gaza, and Donald Trump is calling it a real estate opportunity. The president, as you will know, has decided the US should just take over the Gaza Strip. As for the Palestinians who are inconveniently there at the moment? According to Trump, they can just be moved somewhere else. They can be dumped in Jordan or Egypt or Saudi Arabia. They won't mind. Those Arabs are all the same anyway.