Sunday, February 16, 2025

Trump's Plan

I've seen so many interesting takes on Trump's plan for Gaza, I figure I'd add a take of my own to the mix:

First of all, the plan is more of less to make Gazans leave Gaza, mostly to Jordan or Egypt, and for the USA to take over the Gaza Strip. So thoughts:

Against:

  1. I can't help it, I'm a leftist. I don't want my nation to be responsible for forcing people out of their homes. It's horrible that we've destroyed their homes already, but forcing them to leave feels wrong. I would hate to have to leave my home - I love my community and I've put effort into building a house that I want to live in, and of course my family needs stability. I'd hate for it to happen to me and I don't want to do it to other people.
  2. Moving the Gazans to Jordan and Egypt doesn't solve the problem, it only moves the problem somewhere else. In fact, it's more dangerous because Jordan and Egypt have longer borders with Israel, which makes them more of a threat. And yes, even though most Gazans are not directly affiliated with Hamas, they still probably believe that my country should cease to exist. Honestly Jordan is already mostly Palestinian so they might be ok, but Egypt has been working so hard to avoid being taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood and if you add a million more people who support Muslim Brotherhood ideologies to the mix then Egypt could easily become another Islamist state. Obviously that's bad for us.
  3. What about Hamas and PIJ?
  4. Do we really want the USA on our border? I mean sure, it would be nice to own a Starbucks Gaza City mug, but other than that they'd ruin the place. American pollution and consumerism is not something I want to import to the Middle East, thank you very much.
  5. Also, America is getting kind of unstable. To me at least it's pretty clear that they're heading toward a civil war, and maybe soon the 50 states will split into two separate countries (red and blue or something like that). I don't need another unstable country on my borders.
Why do I think Trump's speech was a good idea?
  1. He's making a big statement and we know him well enough to know he could mean it. That's enough to shuffle the cards a bit, which is good because right now we're stuck and need something radical to change the direction of this war.
  2. He created a new card for Israel, which is pretty cool. Hamas carry the hostages card, which is huge, and Israel's cards are starting to look insignificant - we need more cards to use. (*I'll add that Israel's cards are not insignificant, but Hamas makes them look unimportant. Humanitarian aid, bombing Gaza, blocking the way from south to north, blocking the Egyptian border, actual soldiers on the ground - in theory these should be things that are choking Hamas, but they don't seem to be pressuring them.)
Anyway it's not going to happen, but it's interesting to see how people are reacting.

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