Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

There is Trump Crazy, and there is Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ crazy, and then there is
proposing the mass expulsion of the Palestinian residents of Gaza to make way for a beach resort development owned by the United States crazy.

This is King Canute ordering the tide to recede* crazy.

I'm thinking that this might be tertiary syphilis.†

Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, delight from Israel’s far right and a warning against “ethnic cleansing” from the head of the UN.

The secretary general, António Guterres, planned to tell a UN meeting on Wednesday that “it is essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing” after the US president said he wanted to “own” Gaza and resettle its Palestinian residents elsewhere.


An unusually broad wave of international outrage and condemnation followed Trump’s shock announcement after a meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Germany warned that the plan violated international law and Brazil’s president described it as “incomprehensible”, with China stating it opposed “forced transfer”.

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Both regional critics and supporters recognised that Trump’s vision for a “Riviera for the Middle East” was novel only in seeking to insert the US directly into the heart of one of the most volatile, long-running conflicts in the world.

It is premised on emptying Gaza of its residents, effectively a call for ethnic cleansing, and follows decades of debates in the Israeli right over whether Palestinians can be forced from the territory or encouraged to leave with economic incentives.


Trump wants neighbouring countries that are heavily dependent on US aid and military support, including Egypt and Jordan, to offer new homes to large numbers of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents.

I assume that he wants the resorts to be operated by the Trump Org.

This is completely insane.

^*Canute did issue such an order, but it a way to rebuke cortiers who were to adulatory of him. He was showing them that his power was not absolute.

^†No, I don't believe this.  I am not suggesting that I actually see any signs of syphilis. I'm an engineer, not a doctor, dammit. This is sarcasm for effect