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2025-01-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Trump team considering relocation for some of Gaza’s residents during post-war rebuilding — NBC
[IsraelTimes] The Trump transition team is reportedly considering relocating some of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s two million people outside of the enclave while post-war reconstruction of the decimated Strip takes place, with one of the temporary host countries considered for refugees being Indonesia.

NBC makes the revelation in a Saturday report but only cites one anonymous transition official, who divulges an idea widely seen as completely unrealistic, and it’s unclear how many people in the incoming administration are actually seriously considering it.

Regional countries to date have rejected the idea of accepting Paleostinian migrants colonists, not wanting to be seen as complicit in another refugee crisis. There is also significant fear among many Paleostinians that Israel would not allow those who leave the Strip to return.
Which is completely different than the fact that much of the Gaza population has been dying to move abroad since long before the 10/7 Hamas invasion. Has anyone considered boarding them in that futuristic building/city that Saudi Prince MBS has been constructing deep in the Saudi desert (or wherever it is)?
NBC also reports that incoming Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is considering a visit to Gaza, as he works to maintain the nascent ceasefire deal that is slated to commence on Sunday.

"You got to see it, you got to feel it," the transition official says, adding that doing so would allow Witkoff to see the dynamics playing out on the ground himself, rather than taking Israel’s word for it.

Witkoff is considering the Gaza trip, as he plans to maintain a near-constant presence in the region over the coming weeks and months, given how fragile the deal is expected to be, NBC says, still citing the same lone unnamed transition official.

"Remember, there’s a lot of people, radicals, fanatics, not just from the Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
side, from the right wing of the Israeli side, who are absolutely incentivized to blow this whole deal up," the transition official says, offering rare criticism of Israel from a Trump official, albeit an anonymous one.

"If we don’t help the Gazooks, if we don’t make their life better, if we don’t give them a sense of hope, there’s going to be a rebellion," the transition official adds.

The Times of Israel revealed last week that Witkoff’s January 11 meeting with Netanyahu was critical in securing a breakthrough, with the Trump envoy leaning on the premier to make the compromises necessary for a deal.

He essentially conveyed to the prime minister, "If you’re not intent on making a deal, then tell me, and I’ll get on the plane and I’ll go home," the transition official tells NBC.

Witkoff reportedly highlighted to Netanyahu how much Trump did for Israel in his first term.

He also pointed to Trump’s willingness to take political heat from his conservative supporters in order to secure the ceasefire deal, and Witkoff urged the Israeli government to take the same approach, NBC says.

The network says Witkoff relayed the following message to Hamas via Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
: Unless you’re prepared to die, tell me why you don’t see this as the deal that could ultimately lead to the end of the war.

NBC also reveals that American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel is not scheduled to be released until Day 14 of the ceasefire.

No Israeli news site — even well-sourced ones — has published the days during which specific hostages will be released, and it’s unclear the veracity of this unsourced detail in the unconfirmed report.
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#1 Plenty of place in EUrope.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-01-20 02:20||   2025-01-20 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 It's summer in Antarctica and plenty of space to live....
Posted by 3dc 2025-01-20 02:45||   2025-01-20 02:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Yemen, they love those people.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-20 08:25||   2025-01-20 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Siberia, put them with the Uyghurs and they can have fun with the Chinese.
Posted by alanc 2025-01-20 10:23||   2025-01-20 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Greenland
Posted by Airandee 2025-01-20 16:25||   2025-01-20 16:25|| Front Page Top

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