President Donald Trump’s Gaza remarks align with his policy of erasing Palestinians as a political community, says UCL Middle East historian Dr. Anne Irfan.
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00:00On Monday President Trump said, and we just had a clip of it there, that the
00:04Palestinians who left Gaza would have no right of return after leaving. What do
00:09you make of all of this? Well it's unfortunately unsurprising it's
00:14consistent with what we've been hearing from Trump in general not only in the
00:19last three weeks but to be honest over the entirety of his political career
00:24during his first term as well which is erasure of the Palestinian people as a
00:29political community with national rights, denial of the fact that those rights are
00:36enshrined in international law.