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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Tory Shepherd and Rafqa Touma

World media lambasts Trump’s Gaza proposal, but News Corp praises idea as ‘worth a try’

Donald Trump with Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick (C) and Rupert Murdoch (R).
Donald Trump with Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick (C) and Rupert Murdoch (R). Murdoch visited the White House to discuss Trump’s plans for a US sovereign wealth fund that could be used to buy TikTok. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

When news broke of new US president Donald Trump’s proposal to banish Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into the “riviera of the Middle East”, reactions from the world’s newsrooms were noticeably, well, varied.

The New York Times called it a “brazen plan” while Al Jazeera went a little stronger, declaring: “Trump is a mad man.” The takeover plan “faces global condemnation”, said the Guardian headline, and “UN chief warns of ethnic cleansing”.

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