US President Donald Trump meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

 

 

 

Nothing is going to change. Other than American taxpayers putting billions of their hard-earned dollars into cleaning up and rebuilding Gaza, so that the Gazans can have nicer places to live, be able to build more tunnels, and plot and carry out more attacks against the people of Israel.

Hamas will still exist. Because more than 7 out of every 10 Gazans are either Hamas, or they strongly support Hamas.

The Islamists of Gaza, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, are laughing gut-busting laughter behind closed doors at the ignorance and arrogance of Steve Witcoff and the now backtracking and reframing the future of Gaza by President Trump.

Neither exhibit a clear understanding and knowledge of Islam, of Gaza, of Islamic history, of the reality of the Gazans and how they have been educated [brainwashed] for decades and what their primary reason for living is, which is to kill Jews. Remove Israel. Period.

The world is lost. The world exists in darkness and evil. Not goodness and light. What the world doesn’t need is another American president gone soft. Allowing certain pressures to bear weakening policy, weakening resolve, weakening what was a starting point of strength.

Being the American president certainly is the most, if not one of the most difficult jobs on earth. I certainly couldn’t do it. But in my capacity of just an ordinary Christ following, American man I have learn enough regarding the history and reality of Islam to know that Islam — a growing segment of Islam — will never ever back down from their white hot hatred of Israel, Jews, Christians, and Americans [Islam has already conquered all of Europe, save for some of the Eastern European nations].

Isam will only cease this, I believe, when the Lord Jesus Christ returns. Many believe [Christian and Jewish speakers and writers] Islam is going to fade away and shrink. That jihadist Islam will no longer be a threat in the future. How and where they come to such a conclusion is beyond me considering Islam’s history over the past 70, 80 years. With no sign of lessening and every indication of increasing terrorism. Perhaps their crystal balls are showing them things the day-to-day reality of Islam isn’t revealing to us in the here and now. And here and now is all we have. Projecting into the future, especially when it comes to forecasting peace and harmony, of a violent, hate-filled entity that has existed for about 1500 years suddenly becoming benign or passive, getting with the program is akin to buying tickets for the upcoming flying pigs and cows air show coming to an airfield near you soon.

Too bad we have never had an executive administration that truly comprehends Islam and isn’t fearful of declaring what Islam is. What Gaza really is.

President Trump came up with the ideal plan for the future of Gaza. It’s disappointing, shameful, and disheartening to see him backtrack and now proclaim Gazans won’t be removed, which translated into plain English means Hamas will not be removed and will be permitted to remain and exist — contrary to all the words that have been spewed.

The only way Israel will be safe from any future or persistent attacks from Hamas/Gazans is if they all, every single one, are relocated and none are permitted to remain in Gaza. It was and is the most common sense plan, the only good plan that has been mentioned — and now President Trump is abandoning it and softening, they say, but it isn’t softening — it’s caving in to world pressure and caving in to Islam, and caving in to Hamas, because Hamas will not be removed until and unless every Gazan is removed and not permitted to return.

So, the reality is — nothing is going to change other than the American taxpayer cleaning up Gaza, reviving, rebuilding Gaza which will cost hundreds and hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars [oh, and some Arab countries and some EU countries will toss in a bit of cash to play well with the people of the world but do not be deceived] creating places Gazans never had before, making it possible for Hamas to carry on, for Gazans to carry on greatly benefitting from the war.

Whatever happened to the wisdom and insight that Hamas must be destroyed and all Gazans removed to never again pose a threat to Israel? Isn’t it interesting how cunning and persistent the Serpent is, Evil is constantly working, eroding, wearing down, putting thoughts into the mind to get its way? One of Satan’s main objectives is to destroy Israel, to destroy Jerusalem, to destroy the Jews.

And world leaders are playing right into his lying, cunning, seductive, bloody, violent hands.

Woe to U.S. if this matter continues to erode as it is showing signs of doing, and Steve Witcoff needs to be removed as the appeasing Islam pleasing negotiator. Enough of Steve Witcoff already!

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Friday, March 14th, 2025

 

 

So, then, nothing will change…

Trump says “nobody’s expelling any Palestinians,” in apparent softening of Gaza plan

 

Oval Office comment marks first time U.S. president has specified Gazans won’t be forced to leave enclave; Witkoff meets with Arab FMs to discuss their proposal for Strip’s future

 

13 March 2025

By Jacob Magid

Reprinted from The Times of Israel

 

In an apparent softening of his proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, U.S. President Donald Trump asserted Wednesday that the plan does not involve expelling Palestinians.

During a press spray with Ireland’s Prime Minister Michael Martin in the Oval Office, a reporter asked the Irish leader about Trump’s plan to “to expel Palestinians out of Gaza.”

“Nobody’s expelling any Palestinians,” Trump piped in.

When Trump introduced the idea at the beginning of February during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House, he said the Strip’s population of roughly 2 million people would be “permanently” relocated.

When pressed as to whether this would be done by force, Trump insisted that no Gazans actually want to remain in the war-torn Strip.

Trump’s refusal for the past month to clarify that the relocation of Gazans would be voluntary placed him to the right of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hardline allies, who have insisted that Palestinians would not be forced to leave and that those interested in doing so would be supported.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem welcomed what he viewed as a retreat by Trump from his stance on relocating Gazans, urging him to refrain from aligning with the vision of the “extreme Zionist right.”

While Trump has stood by his plan more broadly, the work to implement it has been limited and several of his top advisers have insisted that the goal was largely to push Arab allies of the United States to come up with their own proposal for the post-war management of Gaza.

Egypt introduced its plan last week, which was endorsed by the Arab League during a summit in Cairo.

The plan envisions a temporary committee of independent Palestinian technocrats running Gaza for six months before handing off control over the enclave to the Palestinian Authority.

The proposal provides for international peacekeeping troops to be deployed in Gaza through a U.N. Security Council resolution. In the meantime, Egypt and Jordan would train Palestinian Authority police officers, so that they can then be dispatched to uphold law and order in Gaza.

The plan divides Gaza into seven different zones and envisions each being rebuilt consecutively in a manner that allows all Palestinians to remain in the Strip during the process. This crosses with comments from Trump and other U.S. officials who insist that Gaza won’t be safe for Palestinians during the 10 to 15 years that it is being rebuilt.

The plan does not address Hamas by name, instead maintaining that the issue and fate of armed groups in Gaza can only be fully addressed through a political process that establishes a Palestinian state.

Still, the Arab League, in a statement endorsing the Egyptian plan, asserted that the security of Gaza “remains an exclusive responsibility of legitimate Palestinian institutions, in accordance with the principle of one law and one legitimate weapon” — indicating that the presence of armed groups other than the Palestinian Authority’s security forces would not be accepted.

The lack of explicit mention of Hamas and disarmament frustrated the Trump administration, which views the terror group’s removal from power as essential to ensuring that Gaza can be rebuilt and avoid returning to the cycle of war that has plagued the enclave for years.

Washington’s Arab partners oppose Hamas to varying degrees but have preferred to take a less public approach to phasing the terrorist organization out of Gaza, while arguing that disarming Hamas will not be possible absent a broader political initiative to establish a Palestinian state.

Last week, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff called the Egyptian plan a “good faith first step” with “a lot of compelling features to it.” The remarks were more welcoming than ones made by spokespeople for the State Department and White House National Security Council, who characterized the Arab plan as “inadequate.”

Witkoff, though, is widely considered to be the most influential figure in the administration on matters pertaining to the Middle East and beyond, other than Trump himself, who has repeatedly expressed his faith in his envoy.

Witkoff met on Wednesday in Doha with the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt and Jordan to discuss the Arab plan.

The group agreed to continue consultations with Witkoff regarding Egypt’s plan they said in a joint statement issued after their meeting.

Notably joining the foreign ministers was Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s top aide Hussein al-Sheikh, who last met with Witkoff in January in Riyadh.

‘A Palestinian as far as I’m concerned’

During Wednesday’s Oval Office spray, Trump also lamented that people are forgetting what Hamas did on October 7. He reiterated the brutal treatment of the hostages by the terror group.

“We’re working hard with Israel… to see [how] we can solve the problem,” Trump said.

He again called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer a “Palestinian,” using the term as an insult.

Generally, Trump has opted for such language to disparage Democrats whom he sees as inadequately supportive of Israel.

In this case, by contrast, Trump made the comments while talking about corporate tax rates. After saying that the American public will blame Democrats for high taxes, Trump launched into an aside on the New York senator, his top adversary in Congress, who on Wednesday was opposing a Republican-drafted funding bill. (The setting was ironic for the comments as the Irish government is staunchly pro-Palestinian.)

“And Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said. “You know, he’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.”

Schumer, the New York Democrat and Senate minority leader, has spoken frequently about his Jewish identity throughout his political career. He is soon to release a book about fighting antisemitism.

A spokesperson for Schumer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both Trump’s supporters and opponents shared clips of the remark online, and it has drawn criticism from some liberal Jewish organizations.

JTA contributed to this report.