President Donald Trump’s Gaza remarks align with historic plans to expel Palestinians, says UCL Middle East historian Dr. Anne Irfan
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00:00Does all of this sound to you like there is a carefully considered master plan or do you
00:05get the impression that President Trump is trying out various theories, various solutions
00:11and sort of venting them and seeing what the reaction's like?
00:15Well, I think it's important to keep in mind that whether or not Trump is being serious
00:22when he says this, there is a very long history of different plans and moves being made to
00:28try and expel the Palestinians en masse from Gaza in particular and Palestine in general.
00:34And even in what he said last week, when Trump talked last week about, he euphemistically
00:39talked about relocating the Palestinians, essentially expelling them, that already engenders
00:45and emboldens a whole pre-existing set of discourses and plans that have been around
00:51in Israel for a long time about forcibly taking the Gaza Strip.