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Transcript - President Trump Proposes an Alternative Future for Gazans

(Roll Call) President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference after talks at the White House on Feb. 4, 2025: Trump: "The bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations and they are absolutely unbreakable....Over the past 16 months, Israel has endured a sustained aggressive and murderous assault on every front, but they fought back bravely....What we have witnessed is an all-out attack on the very existence of a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland. The Israelis have stood strong and united in the face of an enemy that has kidnaped, tortured, raped and slaughtered innocent men, women, children and even little babies." "In our meetings today, the prime minister and I focused on the future, discussing how we can work together to ensure Hamas is eliminated.... Gaza...has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades....We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this, and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and frankly bad luck." "This can be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth. It could be one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, twelve. It could be numerous sites, or it could be one large site....The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative....They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony instead of having to go back and do it again." "If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years. I'm hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all....And I have to stress, this is not for Israel, this is for everybody in the Middle East - Arabs, Muslims - this is for everybody....You can't keep doing the same mistake over and over again....They've tried it for decades and decades. It's not going to work. It didn't work. It will never work. And you have to learn from history. You just can't let it keep repeating itself." Netanyahu: "In Gaza, Israel has three goals: destroy Hamas's military and governing capabilities, secure the release of all of our hostages, and ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel. I believe, Mr. President, that your willingness to puncture conventional thinking - thinking that has failed time and time again - your willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas will help us achieve all these goals." "Israel will end the war by winning the war. Israel's victory will be America's victory....Working together, we will win the peace....We can't leave Hamas there because Hamas will continue the battle to destroy Israel....You can't talk about peace...if this toxic murderous organization is left standing any more that you could make peace in Europe after World War II, if the Nazi regime was left standing and the Nazi army was left standing. If you want a different future, you've got to knock out the people who want to destroy you."
2025-02-06 00:00:00
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