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Trump Wants US to 'Take Over the Gaza Strip,' Build 'Riviera' There
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1:02Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump proposed the US taking over the Gaza Strip and assuming responsibility for reconstructing the war-torn territory during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
Trump suggested he would be open to deploying US troops to secure the area, saying he would “do what is necessary,” and added that he saw the US presence in the contested territory as a “long-term ownership position.” The long-time New York real estate developer painted a vision of a “Riviera of the Middle East” with “world class” construction projects.
Netanyahu seemed to entertain but stop short of fully endorsing the proposal, which, if pursued, would represent a dramatic new US intervention in the Middle East and upend decades of foreign policy doctrine. The Israeli prime minister described Trump’s proposal as “a different idea” from his own but one “worth paying attention to.”
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