I have been saying for years now that the Israelis should have expelled every last ‘Palestinian’ from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza following the 1967 conquest of the territory. It would have been a humanitarian disaster, but it would have been over 57½ years ago, leaving the Arabs with a chance to build their lives again without being under Israeli occupation, and Israel with shortened, more defensible borders.

Now it seems that President Donald Trump has caught up with me! From The Wall Street Journal:

Trump Says He Wants to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza, Send Refugees to Egypt and Jordan

President says move could be temporary or long-term

By Dov Lieber and Carrie Keller-Lynn | Sunday, January 26, 2025 | 11:10 AM EST

TEL AVIV—President Trump said he wants to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and urged Jordan and Egypt to take in refugees either temporarily or for the long term, a move that has been rejected by Arab countries since the war began.

LOL! As though Israel would ever let the ‘Palestinians’ back in if they left.

The president said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan in a phone call on Saturday that he wants the monarch’s country to receive Palestinians. He said he expected to make a similar request of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi in a coming phone call.

“You’re talking about a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” the president told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday. “You know over the centuries it is had many, many conflicts. And I don’t know, something has to happen.”

If you are stymied by the Journal’s paywall, you can access the article for free here.

President Trump would have to be awfully persuasive, because neither Egypt nor Jordan, nor any other country, want the ‘Palestinians,’ who’ve been a major pain in the derriere everyplace they’ve ever been. That destroyed the formerly Christian country of Lebanon, bringing religious strife there. They caused the ‘Black September’ civil war in Jordan, trying to overthrow the government of King Hussein in 1970. And Egypt considers Hamas the bastard brother of the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Egyptian government has been fighting for years.

But that doesn’t mean Mr Trump is wrong: the ‘Palestinians’ are Arabs, and should be an Arab problem, not one for the Israelis.

The comments and other recent moves by his administration reflect a sharp change in policy toward the conflict in Gaza compared with under former President Joe Biden.

A day earlier, the president announced that he released a hold on 2,000-pound bombs that the Biden administration had withheld from Israel over concerns about the civilian death toll in Gaza. His administration also lifted sanctions on Israeli settler organizations and individuals in the West Bank imposed by the Biden administration.

Translation: former President Biden — and I do so love being able to type former President Biden! — supported Israel, but didn’t really support them completely. The sanctions on Israeli settlers harkens back to former President Barack Hussein Obama’s attempt to constrict what was then the first incoming Trump Administration’s Middle East policies, with then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s December 2016 public presentation. And the 2,000 lb ‘bunker buster’ bombs might have been able to collapse Hamas’ tunnels from above ground.

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi dismissed the idea of refugees from Gaza moving to his country.

“Our rejection of the displacement of Palestinians is firm and unwavering, and is necessary to achieve the stability and peace that we all want,” Safadi said during a joint press Sunday with the U.N.’s senior coordinator for humanitarian affairs and reconstruction in Gaza, Sigrid Kaag.

Reconstruction in Gaza? Gaza was a [insert vulgar term for feces here]hole all along, because all of teh aid money was confiscated by Hamas and used to build that insane tunnel network, rather than improve the lives of ordinary ‘Palestinians.’ Whether the ‘Palestinians’ would or could have built something decent with all of that money is unknowable, but my best guess is that Gaza wouldn’t have been much better than it was on October 6, 2023.

Real reconstruction in Gaza would be keeping the Palestinians out, and opening the land to Jewish settlement. The entire area would be cleaned up in less than a year, and a flourishing paradise in five.

Had Israel expelled the ‘Palestinians’ immediately after conquering the territory they did in the 1967 war, the problems would have been solved decades ago.