The Strange Story Behind Trump’s “We Will Own Gaza”
By Howard Bloom
Tuesday, February 4th, a little after five pm, president Donald Trump made a series of statements on Gaza that stunned the world. He proposed that the people of Gaza be moved to Egypt and Jordan.
President Trump said that America would go into Gaza with armed troops if necessary, that America would clear the land of 30,000 pieces of unexploded ammunition, would bulldoze what was left of the buildings destroyed in the Gaza war, and that America would take advantage of the 25 miles of Gaza’s beaches to build a Riviera, a coastal resort where the rich from all over the world could vacation, a resort that would “supply an unlimited number of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
America, Trump said, would own Gaza.
This was one of the most startling foreign policy statements made by an American president in history. And it drew an immediate backlash.
Five Arab states instantly said no. Newspapers all over the world said that the relocation of the Palestinians would be an act of ethnic cleansing. It would be a war crime. And the United Nations agreed.
But what drove Donald Trump to say such a thing? Trump’s 40-minute press conference took place at the White House. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the President’s side. At one point Trump took out his pen and said, “”See this wonderful pen?” Then he pointed to the big desk in front of him and explained, “My desk is the Middle East. And this pen, the top, that’s Israel.”
Sounds outlandish, right? But Trump was on target. In 1947, the United Nations proposed to split Palestine in two. Fifty five percent would go to the Jews. The other 45% would go to the Arabs. Those Arabs already had 22 nations and a territory 40% larger than the United States.
What’s more, in 1921 Britain had already taken 77% of Palestine and turned it into a new Arab nation, Jordan. So Jordan was literally a Palestinian state.
Yes, 77% of Palestine had been turned into a Palestinian state.
Then the remaining 23% was split between Arabs and Jews. The result was that Israel had been promised 50% of Palestine. But it got less than 13%. And the new Jewish state was so tiny that in the center of the country, Israel was only five miles wide.
Why give Israel to the Jews at all? Because Jews originally settled in Israel 3,200 years ago. That’s over two thousand years before the Navajo settled in the American southwest.
Since the settlement of the Jews in Israel, more imperialist, colonialist empires have tried to ethnically cleanse the Jews of Israel than just about any other people in world history. First came the Assyrians, then the Babylonians, then the Romans, and finally the Moslems.
1,386 years ago, the Muslims invaded Israel and sent in Saudi Arabians to rule the place. So it’s the Muslims who are the occupiers of Palestine, not the Jews. In fact, the Jews are Palestine’s indigenous people.
For proof, you can read the stories of the Jews in Israel in your Bible.
There’s good reason that Egypt and Jordan don’t want the Palestinians from Gaza living in their territories. In 1948, when Israel was first founded as a modern state, five Muslim nations decided to attack and wipe Israel off the face of the map. Anticipating the violence, 85% of the Arabs in Israel fled or were expelled. But Israel surprised the world and won the war.
In the 1960s, the Muslim refugees renamed themselves “Palestinians.” Led by Yasser Arafat, they stole homes and cars in Jordan, were rumored to have put nine inch nails through the heads of Jordanian soldiers, then tried to unseat Jordan’s king.
In 1970, Jordan’s rulers couldn’t take it anymore and mounted a war against the Palestinians. In that war, between three thousand and fifteen thousand Palestinians were killed. By their fellow Arabs. The event was commemorated as “Black September.”
The remaining Palestinians were driven out of Jordan and settled all over the Middle East. Especially in Lebanon, where again, they made trouble…and wars.
That’s why the Jordanians and the Egyptians want nothing to do with the people of Gaza. The Palestinians could destabilize…and possibly destroy… their nations.
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Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. One of his eight books — Global Brain — -was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense including representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. Bloom’s work has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. Concludes Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s [first two] books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.” Bloom’s next book, coming out March, 2025, is The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong. Says Harvard’s Ellen Langer of The Case of the Sexual Cosmos, Bloom “argues that we are not savaging the earth as some would have it, but instead are growing the cosmos. A fascinating read.” For more, see http://howardbloom.net or http://howardbloom.institute
