The Issue: President Trump’s ideas on development and resettlement in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
President Trump has the right idea in rebuilding Gaza, but it will never flourish as a paradise (“Serious on taking over Gaza Strip,” Feb. 7).
Face the facts: Palestinians will destroy it before it’s completed. He offered to relocate them and rebuild it, but they are objecting. Let them live in their bombed-out squalor.
The fact that fellow Arab countries refuse to take them in says it all. They started the war that decimated their country, but maybe they should have thought about this possibility first.
Storm Destro
Bayonne, NJ
Trump is now stating the obvious: Gaza is not habitable, and almost totally destroyed. He predicts it will take up to 15 years to clean it up and allow rebuilding of any kind.
It is a very interesting idea, because Hamas has recently increased in numbers and would most likely want to try to control the Gaza Strip once again if Palestinians are able to return after the war.
So if Gaza is not suitable for anyone to live, and the Palestinians find numerous other places to resettle, the new and really interesting question will be: Where will Hamas go when the war ends?
David Lipton
Toms River, NJ
Thankfully, Trump will be reshaping the future of the Gaza Strip. For far too long it has been used as a weapon of mass propaganda against Israel.
The Palestinian people were landlocked to a strip of sand, starved of food and resources. Hamas used their women and children as human shields in the fight against Israel’s right to exist.
Trump’s idea of rebuilding the Gaza Strip with a foundation that ensures a bright and compassionate future, without war, is long overdue.
Donathan Salkaln
Manhattan
It has immediately become clear how dangerous Trump is. After wanting to acquire Greenland, he now has his sights set on Gaza. He will be the biggest settler ever in Palestine if his plan goes through.
He wants to turn the Gaza Strip into a large spa, keeping the original residents out under the guise that it is no longer livable. See how hypocritical it is that with American weapons, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made Gaza unlivable?
It is unprecedented. First America helps Israel commit a kind of genocide, and then together they ensure that the ethnic cleansing in Gaza is completed.
Jan Verniers
Arnhem, Netherlands
How much longer will it take for some people to realize there is little chance of peace as long as Hamas rules in Gaza?
The last three freed hostages were reminiscent of Holocaust survivors. In return for three hostages, Israel released 183 Palestinians, many of whom were serving lifetime sentences.
Hamas then complained about Israel’s procrastination and “lack of commitment.”
The black-cloth-covered faces of the captors prove that “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
Catherine Adago
Manhattan
I question and fear what Trump might do for the current and future inhabitants of Gaza, considering what he did for the desperate citizens of Puerto Rico after the island was devastated by Hurricane Maria. He blithely threw useless rolls of paper towels to them in an amusing-only-to-him game of catch.
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
The people who elected Trump are about “making America great again,” not about spending trillions on Gaza. That money belongs to Americans for rebuilding our own country.
Spending money on terrorists for peace is a proven dead end. Let the friends of the terrorists in Europe rebuild Gaza.
Make America Great Again — not terrorists.
Sathari Singh
The Bronx
Following World War II, where did the residents of Berlin, Warsaw and other flattened cities go to live during the years of reconstruction? Most stayed put. Might that be instructive for the dilemma of Gaza?
Arnold Mazur
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
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