Although the president had been talking about the idea for weeks, there had been no meetings on the subject, and senior members of his government were taken by surprise.

When President Trump announced his proposal for the United States to take ownership of Gaza on Tuesday, he shocked even senior members of his own White House and government.

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It wasn’t only the Americans who were scrambling; the announcement came as just as much of a surprise to Mr. Trump’s Israeli visitors. Soon before they walked out for their joint news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Trump surprised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel by telling him he planned to announce the Gaza ownership idea, according to two people briefed on their interactions.

Inside the U.S. government, there had been no meetings with the State Department or Pentagon, as would normally occur for any serious foreign policy proposal, let alone one of such magnitude. There had been no working groups. The Defense Department had produced no estimates of the troop numbers required, or cost estimates, or even an outline of how it might work.

There was little beyond an idea inside the president’s head.

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  • @MrkawfeeEnglish
    0•1 hour ago

    NYT doing their jobs of masking Israel’s involvement in this. Trump received huge funding from.Zio fanatics like Miriam Adelson. Every Zionist wishes to see Palestinians gone.

    Trump as every US President before him, is simply bowing to their whims, albeit with worse PR.

    Netanyahu already planned to ethnically cleanse Gaza as early as 2023

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Options_for_a_policy_regarding_Gaza's_civilian_population?wprov=sfla1

    here’s an excerpt from the proposal

  • Admiral PatrickEnglish
    20•12 hours ago

    There was little beyond an idea inside the president’s head.

    Fixed that for them.

    • @MrkawfeeEnglish
      1•2 hours ago

      Inside Netanyahu’s head more like

    • @[email protected]English
      13•13 hours ago

      Fascism is the theater of manufactured crises brought into such stark relief that all other meaning breaks down into bigotry.

      Either shock or overwhelmed stunned disengagement is fundamentally an act of compliance to the performance of public violence.

    • @Nurse_RobotEnglish
      11•14 hours ago

      Same. This article is a little insulting

    • Maeve
      0•13 hours ago

      The time for shock is over. It’s fine for us to see awe _ourselves.

  • @werefreeatlastEnglish
    2•9 hours ago

    Innie, meene, minie, moe! Must be this speech… Fellow Americans, by now, no doubt you have been sighting the alien ships arriving from space to rape our… What a wonderful word “rape”! Don’t you think? A handsome alien came to me the other day crying. Very tall muscular alien, only raped me a couple of times. He said to me, he said. " we would like to take your planet for ourselves ". So Elon Trump starts flights to Mars tomorrow. It gonna be wonderful. Just wait till you all see Trumpland our new country in mars. Beautiful place. And the women there also have the pussies. You know, they come from here, so they got beautiful pussies. They let you grab them if you’re famous.