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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

Trump’s Gaza remarks are no surprise: ethnic cleansing was always the plan

man wearing navy suit and blue tie stands behind podium and microphone
‘Much of the western media have been complicit in dehumanizing Palestinians and normalizing what many experts have termed a genocide.’ Photograph: Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

“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.

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