Resettlement or displacement?

Donald Trump’s plans to ‘clean out’ Gaza will not come to fruition as long as Palestinians resist.

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the United States should “ take over” Gaza , displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is unsettling—in both a literal and, to Palestinians, a very personal sense. The remarks, which followed earlier comments in which the president expressed a desire to “clean out” Gaza , have been taken by some Middle East experts as a call to “ ethnically cleanse ” the strip of its 2.2 million Palestinian inhabitants . They worry that such talk will bolster the hopes of Israel’s far-right settlers and their supporters in government, who want to remove Palestinians from Gaza and build Jewish-only settlements on the enclave’s beachfront property.