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Critics Deride Trump's Idea, But What Are They Offering Palestinians?
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - President Trump's idea that the U.S. might relocate two million Palestinians from Gaza and then rebuild the strip isn't going to happen soon, if ever. But the idea does have the virtue of forcing the world to confront its hypocrisy over the fate of the Palestinian people. Note that Mr. Trump expressed admirable sympathy for the Palestinians and their plight. Gaza "has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades and so bad for the people anywhere near it," he said Tuesday. Who could disagree with that? He went on to say, "we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this." Is his idea so much worse than the status quo that the rest of the world is offering? The famous "two-state solution," with a Palestinian state next to Israel, won't happen as long as Hamas still runs Gaza and could run the West Bank. The best the world can come up with is to let Gaza remain a hell-hole where Hamas will revive its reign of terror, and Palestinians who want something different will be tossed off buildings.