Dear Ttbn,

All well with this plan, but why expose it now at this particular most sensitive time when Israeli hostages are trickling out?

Let us finish getting all hostages out first, including stage 2 which also ends Israel's war so it can lick its wounds, for otherwise the remaining Israeli hostages there will die. Then afterwards Trump can make and implement whatever plans he likes for Gaza, no problem.

Even this coming Saturday's planned release of 3 wounded and/or elderly hostages is now in jeopardy and uncertain.

Just look up Lebanon in the sixties in Google images & read what happened to it !

Trump's plan has been labeled as "ethnic cleansing". Will there be a Trump resort and golf course, for when Donald visits?

It should be called out for what it is. The residents of Gaza have always been at war with Israel. It is their heritage, and like Monty Python's black knight, the aggression and hatred will always be with them. Trump has suggested the only solution that will end the conflict.

Hi Fester,

For political reasons the state of Israel was imposed on the Middle East by the victorious allies post WWII. There was no consideration given to the Palestinian people. A remnant population of Jews had peacefully coexisted with Arabs in the region prior to the formation of the state of Israel for a couple of thousand years. In fact Arabs (Muslims) accepted Jews as cousins through Abraham, so there was not a great deal of hostility. In the last 70 years the Israelis have grown stronger, thanks mainly to American support, which has allowed them to engage in an expansionist policy, which continues to exacerbate an already volatile situation.

It would seem Hamas's objective 7th October was to grab hostages to give it a stronger bargaining position with the Israelis, it failed. We can see the results of a determined Israeli counter objective of obliteration of the Palestinians through total destruction. What comes next, nobody knows.

Hi Paul,
The agreement with Saudi Arabia would've put an end to a Palestinians state, that's why they acted to put an end to it, Saudi Arabia then came out and tied that agreement to the creation of a Palestinian state.

Trumps not going to clear 1.9 million people out of Gaza.
It's an opening gambit, one that's now taken the problem out Gaza of Netanyahu's hands, which will lead to the end of Netanyahu.
Netanyahu didn't know what Trump was going to announce in advance.

Trump doesn't like Netanyahu.
A few weeks back he posted a Jeffrey Sachs interview extremely critical of Netanyahu.
http://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-836924