MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough is tearing into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump over their reported plan to relocate besieged Palestinians from the world and over the assist they declare different international locations within the area are expressing for the thought.
Netanyahu, who has been accused of conflict crimes for the army marketing campaign in Gaza following Hamas’ 2023 terrorist assaults in Israel, dined Monday on the White Home, the place a reporter requested Trump if his “Palestinian relocation plan” was nonetheless on the desk.
Trump, who proffered the thought earlier this 12 months, deferred the reply to his visitor.
“I think President Trump had a brilliant vision. It’s called free choice. You know, if people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave. It shouldn’t be a prison. It should be an open place and give people a free choice,” stated Netanyahu.
“We’re working with the United States very closely about finding countries that will seek to realize what they always say, that they wanted to give the Palestinians a better future, and I think we’re getting close to finding several countries,” he continued, including that Palestinians can have “the freedom to choose.”
Scarborough slammed the concept different international locations need to soak up displaced Palestinians as a “preposterous statement” throughout Tuesday’s version of “Morning Joe,” the place he was joined by Richard Haass, former advisor to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell in the course of the administration of ex-President George W. Bush.
“And the idea that somehow the answer to the Palestinian problem is pushing Palestinians off of land they have considered their own for thousands of years seems, at best, to be a non-starter,” Scarborough advised Haass.
“I didn’t see, on his menu, the idea of a Palestinian state,” Haass famous in settlement. “So, look, you’ve got 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, three more million in the West Bank, and the idea that you’re going to find homes for them outside of these areas, I think is fanciful.”
He continued, “There’s a word for this: It’s called ‘transfer.’”
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The Palestinian dying toll from the Israel-Hamas conflict surpassed 55,000 in June, in keeping with the Gaza Health Ministry. Netanyahu has lengthy claimed the army marketing campaign in Gaza is strictly a defensive measure to retrieve Israeli hostages from Hamas. Trump stated in February that the U.S. ought to “take over” Gaza and switch it into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” prompting extreme backlash on the time.
Haass famous Tuesday that right-wing Israelis have “a deeply held hope” to settle the Palestinian land “or even annex” it solely.
“So I think other than a tiny number of Palestinians who might make their way to Egypt or something, the idea that this is ‘a solution to the Palestinian issue’ is, again, it’s simply drilling a dry hole,” stated Haass. “It’s not a serious proposition.”
Scarborough replied, “No, it’s not serious. And you can’t talk about peace in the Middle East without talking about a two-state solution. And people that claim you can have their heads stuck in the sand.”
