Trump Floats Plan For The Gaza Strip
Alright, folks, let’s get something straight right off the bat—when Donald J. Trump steps into the room, the conventional wisdom takes a backseat. It has to. Why? Because the so-called “experts” who have been driving Middle East policy for the last few decades have done nothing but run it into the ground. And now, Trump is flipping the script. Again.
On Tuesday night, Trump made waves—massive waves—when he stood alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and announced his plan for the Gaza Strip. The United States would take control of Gaza. Boom. And the media, the bureaucrats, the think tanks—they all lost their collective minds.
Why? Because this wasn’t supposed to happen. The conventional wisdom has always insisted that the path to peace in the Middle East must run through the “Palestinian question.” That everything revolves around this single issue. That if only Israel would make more concessions—give up more land, take more risks, show more “restraint”—then peace would magically bloom.
Except that’s never happened. Not once. In fact, every time Israel has been pushed into making concessions, the result has been more war, more terror, more innocent lives lost. The Oslo Accords? A failure. Billions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian territories? A direct pipeline to Hamas’ terror machine. The so-called “peace process”? A revolving door of empty promises and escalating violence.
But Trump? He sees the situation for what it is. He understands that you can’t negotiate peace with people who don’t want peace. That’s why, during his first term, he didn’t waste time trying to get Israel and the Palestinians to hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Instead, he focused on what *could* be achieved—strengthening ties between Israel and the broader Arab world. The result? The **Abraham Accords**—the first real breakthrough in Middle East peace in decades. And everyone said it couldn’t be done.
So now, Trump is thinking outside the box again. He’s saying, “Enough with this endless cycle. Enough with pretending that the Palestinian leadership wants peace. If there’s ever going to be stability in the region, it’s time to take a different approach.” And naturally, the foreign policy elites can’t handle it.
Let’s talk reality for a second. Hamas isn’t interested in coexistence. They were *elected* by the Palestinian people. And even after Hamas brought nothing but war and devastation to Gaza, polling shows that a majority of Palestinians **still** support them. That tells you everything you need to know.
The truth is, the rest of the Arab world doesn’t actually want a Palestinian state. They never have. If they did, why didn’t Egypt create one in Gaza when they controlled it from 1948 to 1967? Why didn’t Jordan do the same in the West Bank? Because they knew what Trump knows now—a Palestinian state, as it stands today, would be a failed, terror-infested disaster. That’s why Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia have no interest in absorbing refugees from Gaza right now. They know exactly what kind of instability that would bring.
And let’s talk about “population movement,” because the second Trump suggested that maybe, just *maybe*, some Palestinians might want to leave the war-torn wasteland Hamas has created, the outrage machine kicked into high gear. But here’s the question no one is asking: why is Gaza the *only* place on Earth where people *must* stay put, no matter how horrific the conditions? We’ve seen mass population movements in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, even Ukraine. But the second you suggest that some Palestinians might want to leave Gaza for a better life elsewhere, the “experts” clutch their pearls and say it’s unthinkable.
Trump’s approach is simple: face reality. The Palestinians do not want a peaceful two-state solution. The Arab world does not truly care about a Palestinian state. And Israel is not going anywhere.
The foreign policy establishment has spent decades banging its head against the same wall, expecting a different result. Trump? He’s tearing down the wall and looking for a door.
So before the media and the Washington insiders melt down over this latest Trump move, maybe—just maybe—they should take a moment to consider that the guy who brokered the first real Arab-Israeli peace deals in modern history might actually know what he’s doing. Because if the last few decades have proven anything, it’s that the “experts” sure don’t.