🔴🧵ANALYSIS: Is Trump's Gaza plan real or not? After all the excitement from yesterday's meeting between Trump and Bibi, let's try to understand what is behind it. Is it real, or is Trump just shaking things up?
IMHO, I have significant doubts that the U.S. will take over Gaza; I think Trump put it out there because this is what he knows how to do best—negotiate, and this time, he negotiates using Middle Eastern language.
The best commodity or asset in the Arab world is LAND. People will die for it, and losing land is the worst thing that can happen in Arab culture. So Trump decided to use this commodity to negotiate; the only significant difference here is that now he is using it against the Arab world.
For the past 58 years, the Palestinians have gotten used to the fact that no matter how brutal and savage they act, the world will not hold them accountable. After every act of terrorism, even the most brutal one like on 10/7, the U.S. will immediately pivot to the two-state solution and the need for Israel to give back land. It took Biden just a few weeks after the most horrible massacre of Jews since the Holocaust on 10/7 to return to the two-state solution.
Trump decided to change this horrible policy, but he did it brilliantly. His plan will send a message to the Arab world on two fronts. One, no more rewards for slaughtering Jews; instead, you get a punishment in the form of losing land FOREVER. Second, he ripped the mask off the Arab world that claimed the Palestinians are their brothers and sisters for 58 years and is holding them to it by demanding they accept them into their countries.
In essence, what Trump did is force the Arab world and Palestinians to negotiate on land they lost not 58 years ago but on land they lost NOW. If you want Gaza back, here is what you will need to give for it. Let me emphasize this: the negotiation now is not about Judea and Samaria; it is about Gaza and Gaza only.
You can see the panic in the Arab world today. Egypt called a meeting of all the Arab countries. Reports this morning are that Egypt is pushing construction materials and heavy equipment into Gaza to try to create the illusion that Gazans don't need to be relocated because construction has started.
Trump, the ultimate negotiator, made a firm decision not to follow the same mistakes of the past that only led to death and destruction in the Middle East. For the first time in decades, he held the Palestinians accountable for their actions and forced the Arab world to act instead of just talk. He blew a hole right through their main accusation for the past 58 years, "occupation," because he said the U.S. would take the land, not Israel. Egypt, Jordan, and Qatar, which depend on U.S. support, will not dare to call the U.S. "an occupier." They know that if he actually implements this plan, it's all over for the Palestinians.
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