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Take Trump's Plan to Relocate Gazans Seriously, Not Literally
(Telegraph-UK) David Christopher Kaufman - A truly novel solution - the proposed relocation of Gazans to other parts of the Middle East, as now suggested by Donald Trump - was immediately dismissed as offensive and unworkable. But nothing even close to a forced "transfer" is on the table here. As with so much in Trump-world, the trick is to take the president seriously, not literally. Focus on the essence of his messaging: that it's time for the Arab world to take responsibility for looking after people they profess to care about. The point here isn't that Trump necessarily wants to force Gazans from Gaza. Instead, mechanisms must be devised to allow Gazans who want to leave to at least be given the option of doing so. No one should be forced to live under the rule of craven Islamist fundamentalists who starve their own citizens of basic resources and use them as human shields. We certainly would not expect this from people in the West - so why do we demand it of Gazans?