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2025-02-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Trump: ‘I really am’ fine with any decision Israel makes — continue truce or resume war
[IsraelTmes] US President calls killing of child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas ‘so barbaric’; says he’s not ‘forcing’ Gaza plan to expel locals to Jordan, Egypt

US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
said Friday he is "really" fine with any decision Israel makes as to whether to continue to a second stage of the 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...
hostage deal or return to war in Gaza.

Asked about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position in an interview with Fox News, Trump said, "He’s actually not torn. I mean, you know where he stands, and he would like to go in, and he’s just so angry, and he should be. If he’s not angry, then there’d be something wrong with him, frankly.

"He is very angry; he’s a very angry man at what happened, especially what happened yesterday with these kids," he said, referring to the return of murdered hostage children Ariel and Kfir Bibas. "It’s so barbaric. You wouldn’t think that would happen in the modern age, but it happened."

Asked on whether Israel would decide between seeking to bring back more hostages in a second phase or resuming the war, and whether he is fine with either choice, Trump answered, "I am. I really am. You know, when you see what’s happening there... you just wonder about the condition of the hostages that they have. One group came in so bad, it looked like it was a concentration camp in Germany."

He added: "Sometimes you have to make a decision... it’s a rough decision."

Sixty-seven of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.

’I’M NOT FORCING IT’
Trump was also asked about his post-war plan for the Gaza Strip, which calls for the US to take ownership of the enclave and for the local population to be relocated to Egypt and Jordan, who have rejected the proposal outright.

"Well, we play Jordan and Egypt billions of dollars a year and I was a little surprised they said that, but they did. And I’ll tell you, the way to do it is my plan. I think that’s the plan that really works," Trump said.

"I’m not forcing it. I’m just gonna sit back and recommend it, and then the US would own the site and, you know, no Hamas, and they’d be developed and then you’d start all over again with a clean plate."

"I like my plan I thought my plan was good. You get them out, you move them, you build a beautiful community and a permanent community and then you take the site," Trump said.

"You know it’s a great location. I don’t know why Israel ever gave that up," Trump said, referring to Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza. "I guess they look at us and say ’Why did you give up the Panama Canal?’

"I’ve seen a lot of bad real estate deals, that’s one of them right there."

Arab leaders have been shuffling to construct a counterproposal to Trump’s Gaza plan. According to reports, the Arab plan would see Hamas retreat from Gaza’s political scene.

Hamas has controlled Gaza since 2007, following a civil war that saw the terror group oust the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority, which is dominated by Hamas’s secularist rival Fatah.

Israel has ruled out accepting any plan that involves the Paleostinian Authority playing a role in the management of the Gaza Strip.
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