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Video: Trump's Gaza Plan Is "Not Forcible Eviction, Not Ethnic Cleansing"

(Fox News) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu interviewed by Mark Levin - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview aired on Feb. 8: "We got the Abraham Accords because we went around the Palestinians. Because the Palestinians - whether they are Hamas or their competitors, the Palestinian Authority - they both want to see the end of Israel. The only difference is Hamas says, let's do it immediately by terror and military means, and the other guy says, no, let's do it by lawfare, by the ICC, let's put pressure on Israel to withdraw to the indefensible lines where we're nine miles wide." "We are not going to have an organization committed to our destruction nine miles from the sea. All they have to do is cut us in half and we're dead....After Oct. 7, after the massacre, that's gone. Nobody is going to do that. Nobody is going to give them a Palestinian state. They just had one. It's called Gaza. Under Hamas. That was in effect a Palestinian state. What happened with that? It was used as a springboard in an attempt to destroy us." "I think that President Trump's proposal is the first fresh idea in years and it has the potential to change everything in Gaza....Gaza is basically a small area, 25 miles from Tel Aviv, which Hamas has used as a springboard for continuous terrorist attacks against Israel. We come in, we smack them and we leave. And we do it again, and they do it again, and it doesn't go anywhere. Now we're going to do something else. We're going to finish Hamas off - and what happens then? Do we leave the people there with all that devastation?" "Everybody describes Gaza as the biggest open-air prison in the world. You know why? Because they're not allowed to leave?...And in comes President Trump and he says, 'Open the gate, let them leave. And I'll find a place of destination for temporary relocation.'...Not forcible eviction, not ethnic cleansing....All that President Trump is saying is, 'I want to open the gates and give them an option to relocate temporarily while we rebuild the place physically and while we also rebuild it in terms of deradicalization.'" "Two things that President Trump has been blamed for are totally false. He never said he wants American troops to do the job. We'll do the job. Hamas attacked us. We'll take care of them. We'll finish them off. The second thing, he didn't say that American taxpayers' money is going to do the job. He said he'd get independent financing for it, and I'm sure he will. So I think this is a very, very good, new approach. I think we should pursue it." "Once you give them the option, they'll leave. You know how I know that? Because I got requests from people in Gaza before the war who wanted to leave, but they were locked in because their neighbor, Egypt, wouldn't open the door. Some of them would bribe the gatekeepers in Egypt, so the very rich got out, but those who wanted to leave couldn't leave. Give them an option. I think that's the right thing to do."
2025-02-09 00:00:00
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