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2025-02-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

FAFO: Trump, in shock announcement, says U.S. ~~wants to~~ will take over Gaza Strip

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10330 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 Trump says US will take over Gaza Strip with troops 'if necessary'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-05 00:21|| 2025-02-05 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes Bibi, we still have the damn thing. Why do you ask ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-05 00:36|| 2025-02-05 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 In 1982 Turks did a census in "Palestine". 1/2 million people of them (approx) 80% Arabs. Today there are 14 million self-proclaimed Palestinians. Do the math.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-05 01:47|| 2025-02-05 01:47|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Oppps. 1882.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-05 01:59|| 2025-02-05 01:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Took me a while to figure this out:

FAFO = "First And Final Offer"

Doing my part to save you all from wasting time looking this up when it should have been explained up front in the article!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-02-05 04:37|| 2025-02-05 04:37|| Front Page Top

#6 In this case it goes outside my usual vocabulary, dear Seeking Cure. It actually stands for Fuck Around and Find Out. That’s my editorial addition to the original headline.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-05 04:45|| 2025-02-05 04:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems like Trump has read up on the Gordian Knot story.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-05 05:56|| 2025-02-05 05:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Beach front property, just like Jared Kushner said. How nice!

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-02-05 06:01|| 2025-02-05 06:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Prince: "And then the President asked me, "Erik, can you have 2500 men on the ground in Gaza in two weeks?"

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-05 07:05|| 2025-02-05 07:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Beach front property

If you close your eyes you can see it. Trump Med - a sprawling luxury hotel/resort complex and international business center. You know he can do it.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-05 09:01|| 2025-02-05 09:01|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ Beach front property.

Think Lahaina, HI

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-05 09:38|| 2025-02-05 09:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Truly crappy idea. So much for Trump's "I don't want foreign entanglements speech." Take a deep breath, Donny, and go back to what we're paying you for, terrorizing our bureaucrats.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-05 09:48|| 2025-02-05 09:48|| Front Page Top

#13 #12. First, let Gazans move to Egypt - it's where their grandparents came during the Mandate. Then, we shall see.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-05 10:03|| 2025-02-05 10:03|| Front Page Top

#14 This is his opening gambit. We'll find out what it is he actually wants in due time.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-02-05 10:16|| 2025-02-05 10:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Tel Aviv and the rest of the Joppa coast is a rather nice place, great oranges too!

Posted by 746 2025-02-05 10:47|| 2025-02-05 10:47|| Front Page Top

#16 #14 - Likely hoping the rich Arabs will take up the cost/task out of false "Trump can't do that, WE will!" bravado

Posted by Frank G 2025-02-05 10:50|| 2025-02-05 10:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Only one problem: Nobody, but nobody wants Gazooks coming to their country.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-05 12:00|| 2025-02-05 12:00|| Front Page Top

#18 ^Too bad. Because Arabs (with a lot of international help) created the problem.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-05 12:02|| 2025-02-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#19 People be like - it's not our problem.

I've been alive long enough to know that even though the Palestinians 'arent our problem' they are and will always be, until a solution is found. There is absolutely no way in the real world, the reality that we live, there's no way we can walk away from this without it haunting us and w/o us being dragged back in at some future point.

The reality is that Hamas lost their Oct 7 War, and losers dont get to dictate terms. And Israel has had 30 years plus get Gaza straightened out. Now America has a President with backbone, and we are the preeminent power on the planet, it is time to solve this once and for all.

Posted by mossomo 2025-02-05 12:58|| 2025-02-05 12:58|| Front Page Top

#20 My understanding is that the idea is to remove every "Palestinian" from Gaza permanently, then creating an enclave for business and resorts akin to the celebrated Lebanese Riviera of the 60's. The business lure is to get Arab money with confidence of U.S. ensured political stability for the place to draw investment, and the extant Hamas/Palestinian population is removed. As has been suggested by Scot Adams I think, the core idea is to remove the physical boundary between Israel and the cancerous Gazan population in toto by their reintegration back into surrounding nations in return for a share of a huge economic zone of prosperity. Political surgery/relocation of the entire tumor that is the current Gazan population. The idea is big thinking out of the box, the problem is who has the money, becasue we sure don't!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-05 14:08|| 2025-02-05 14:08|| Front Page Top

#21 Doesn't England have an island that used to be full of Anthrax? It's supposedly safe now so the Gazans can live there. England is partly to blame for this whole thing anyway.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-02-05 14:11|| 2025-02-05 14:11|| Front Page Top

#22 Time for Yemen to prove its solidarity.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-05 14:47|| 2025-02-05 14:47|| Front Page Top

#23 just a talking point

like Greenland, Panama, etc.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-05 15:59|| 2025-02-05 15:59|| Front Page Top

#24 I'm imagining how long this would take. If more than 4 years, there's a chance a different political party could be running the show here. If we were still responsible for the joint by then, how many names can you think of who'd say "Just let them come here; give them citizenship and iPhones!"

Posted by James 2025-02-05 19:01|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2025-02-05 19:01|| Front Page Top

#25 eliminating our cause

That's be-cause.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-05 19:13|| 2025-02-05 19:13|| Front Page Top

#26 Re #6: Thanks for your expiation TW, when an unfamiliar acronym is used, it should be explained up front.

Yes it appears I was wrong, but it took you to post what it really meant for us to find out, else it's up to our collective wild imaginations to up up with meanings for "FAFO"

Thanks

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-02-05 21:56|| 2025-02-05 21:56|| Front Page Top

#27 when an unfamiliar acronym is used

I thought everybody knew that. A nice reminder that everybody isn't everybody.

They may not be definitive, but a useful source is the Urban Dictionary

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-05 22:09|| 2025-02-05 22:09|| Front Page Top

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