Gaza, Middle East and Trump

Rubio to visit Middle East after Trump proposal for US to take over Gaza
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel and Arab states in mid-February, a State Department official said, making his first trip to the Middle East after a widely condemned proposal by President Donald Trump to displace Palestinians in Gaza.
Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ plan is the most outlandish idea in the history of US Middle East peacemaking
Speaking of the two Israeli neighbors, Aaron David Miller, a former US Middle East peace negotiator, said on CNN: “It’s not a real estate deal for them, it’s not even a humanitarian issue for them. It’s an existential issue.”
Middle East latest: Israeli defense minister tells army to set plans for Palestinians to leave Gaza
Israel’s defense minister says he has instructed the army to prepare plans for large numbers of Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip in line with President Donald Trump’s proposal for the war-ravaged territory.
Middle East Tensions Highlights: Trump Officials Try to Walk Back Gaza Takeover Plan
Top Trump administration officials on Wednesday walked back elements of President Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza and drive out the Palestinian population, insisting that he had not committed to using U.S. troops to clear the territory and that any relocation of Palestinians would be temporary.
Trump vows to take over Gaza and create 'Riviera of the Middle East'
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would take over war-ravaged Gaza and create a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere, shattering decades of U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and drawing regional condemnation.
Middle East latest: Israel starts planning for Palestinians to leave Gaza
Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza. That's despite widespread international rejection of President Donald Trump’s plan to empty the territory of its population.
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A Paradigm Shift for the Middle East
ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...
History Suggests Trump Faces Long Odds in Trying to Broker Middle Eastern Peace
More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.
Russia says Trump's 'shocking' remarks on Gaza fuel Middle East tensions
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks about resettling the Palestinians from ...
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The Path to a Transformed Middle East
DENNIS ROSS is Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Professor at Georgetown University. A former ...
3 Takeaways From Trump’s Middle East Shocker
Trump has now gone much, much further, declaring this week that the United States would “take over” Gaza, drive some 2 ...
Airlines cautiously return to Middle East
Global airlines have started lifting suspensions on flights to and from Middle East after the ceasefire between Israel and ...
What to know about the Trump family’s deals in the Middle East
The region has become a hot spot for the family’s business. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, noted last year that ...
A real estate developer’s guide to the Middle East
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has a basic idea about everybody on the planet; he believes that people just want to live ...