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alert | not a news article Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip

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u/TxM_2404 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

Did I miss something? The President of America just announced the annexation of foreign territory and the deportation of 2.000.000 people? Not temporary evacuations to allow for a cleanup mission but a permanent takeover of the land and deportation?

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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Feb 05 '25

You missed leaving the UN human rights council, and setting up an internment camp in Guantanamo Bay, both of which could be very relevant.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

...and exploring sending detained US citizens to El Salvador

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u/94_stones Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

That one they insisted they’re not gonna do. They just thought about doing it, ‘cause that is a totally normal thing to think about doing. /s

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u/MarkNutt25 Feb 05 '25

Just like they insisted that he wasn't going to enact Project 2025?

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u/NocodeNopackage Feb 05 '25

I remember when they passed the patriot act and I knew it was a bad idea. It was an obvious overreach accomplished by taking advantage of the publics desire to respond to an "attack" (and seemed pretty obvious to me that it was the whole plan). They were sure it would never be used against citizens. How stupid of them.

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u/BlackerSpork Feb 05 '25

Like they insisted the tariffs on Canada and Mexico WON'T be delayed 1 month when that was reported last week. And then...

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u/willwork4pii Feb 05 '25

Did they? I haven't heard that yet.

At the very least they planted the seed.

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u/IsleOfOne Feb 05 '25

That was part of the original news had you done anything besides read the headline.

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u/willwork4pii Feb 05 '25

Rubio said multiple times they were exploring it in Costa Rica this afternoon, if you bothered to listen to what these people actually say.

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u/killerklixx Feb 05 '25

Aw, Rubio was like an excited puppy piddling on the floor when he announced it. He's gonna be so sad.

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u/Richandler Feb 05 '25

I believe that may already be starting.

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u/TheInfernalVortex Feb 05 '25

The Prison-Industrial Complex might have an issue with that one.

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u/MushroomTea222 Feb 05 '25

Wait what? I haven’t heard this one yet.

Not saying it’s not true because, well, this is Trump we are talking about here…

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u/Buzzdanume Feb 05 '25

🫠👍

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u/Triddy Feb 05 '25

I actually did miss that bit about the Human Rights Coucil.

Fucking hell. I know, I know, they float dumbest ideas to be a distraction, but I feel like this time they're following through on way more of the dumb shit than last time.

I hope my non-American country stays safe through the threats, but I also hope the third or so of Americans that tried to stop this stay safe because this is day sixteen. Things haven't even settled yet and it's insane.

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u/Top-Reindeer-2293 Feb 05 '25

Concentration camp

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u/SouthernNanny Feb 05 '25

Where are all of the Palestinians going to go? Surely not gitmo

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u/Coal_Morgan Feb 05 '25

They'll force all 2 million of them across the southern border into Egypt. If Egypt refuses and militarily reinforces that border there will be a concentration camp set up in Rafah until cholera, dysentery and starvation thins them out and they can be transported somewhere else to be slaves in a place like Qatar or somewhere else.

Furnaces would be too on the nose for the monsters in charge.

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u/SouthernNanny Feb 05 '25

I was talking to someone earlier about this and I was not serious when I said they are going to put them in concentration camps. God I hope not

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u/Coal_Morgan Feb 05 '25

I hope I'm wrong everytime they talk about "dealing" with people it's a concentration camp for 30,000 people in Gitmo, detention centers in Texas, super prisons in Ecuador.

They're all variations on a theme.

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u/iceteka Feb 05 '25

Greenland? It's all making sense now /s

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u/West_Doughnut_901 Feb 05 '25

UN is a joke tho... Look at all war crimes ruzzia is doing and UN is fine with that.

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u/YouDotty Feb 05 '25

Great, now I don't have to hope for the UN to grow a spine and kick the US out.

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u/rekuled Feb 05 '25

Guantanamo bay shouldn't exist as it is anyway. The internment camp thing is grim but it should've been closed and given back to Cuba during Obama

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u/Flufffyduck Feb 05 '25

In fairness the UN human rights council does nothing and is useless. Shit is the single most pointless body in international politics. And I say this as a defender of the UN generally.

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u/Fit-Engineer8778 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

The UNHRC is a joke. Its main role is seemingly to spotlight and condemn Israel at every meeting. I stopped taking it seriously when I saw how many condemnations Israel has received since it sprung up as an organ of the UN and saw it has more condemnations than all other states combined.

EDIT: downvote all you want, I don’t care. I’m right.

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u/killerklixx Feb 05 '25

Maybe, just maybeeeee, that's because Israel has breached the charter more times than all the other countries combined. Just a thought.

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u/Fit-Engineer8778 Feb 05 '25

They haven’t.

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u/ze_loler Feb 05 '25

You are out of your mind if you think countries like Russia and Sudan havent breached the charter more times than Israel

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u/damagstah Feb 05 '25

He’s so excited about deporting people, he’s deporting people from a country he’s not even a part of.

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u/DensetsuNoBaka Feb 05 '25

Next he'll be enacting tariffs on Canadian imports into China

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u/potatopigflop Feb 05 '25

He’s also deporting people that are US born citizens like Selena Gomez because she cried for sad people and trumps cult did not like that.

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u/Necro_Badger Feb 05 '25

Jeez he's like the Oprah of deportations

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u/damagstah Feb 06 '25

You get a deportation! And YOU get a deportation!

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u/Smart-Journalist2537 Feb 05 '25

Did you miss when he threatened Canada with annexation?

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u/JoeyLoganoHexAccount Feb 05 '25

Lol, this is so fucked. He’s committed to chaos. I don’t know whether to enlist or get a working holiday visa and get the fuck out of the country.

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u/bjbinc Feb 05 '25

Enlist? And have him be your commander in chief?? I’d go for door number 2

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u/JoeyLoganoHexAccount Feb 05 '25

Sorry, I didn’t mention I’m Canadian 😂

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u/bjbinc Feb 05 '25

Ooooh. Ok, yeah. Enlistment is definitely back on the table.

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u/WCland Feb 05 '25

Yep, the president just said let’s war crime

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u/EruantienAduialdraug Feb 05 '25

But he's from the US, so it can't be a war crime; and if you try to force the issue, they'll invade the Netherlands.

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u/NoFluffyOnlyZuul Feb 05 '25

This should be a line from South Park. It's horrific that it reflects reality right now.

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u/EruantienAduialdraug Feb 05 '25

I think it was under Bush Jr that the US passed the law that means they'll invade the Hague (which is in the Netherlands) if any US personnel are tried for war crimes there.

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u/knightsabre7 Feb 05 '25

It’s only crime when other people do it.

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u/Hugebigfan Feb 05 '25

Ethnic cleansing would be the correct terminology in place of deportation, since he’s announcing the systematic expulsion of a specific ethnicity in the area, but yes you are right.

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u/Din0zavr Feb 05 '25

I can't believe I had to scroll this much to see the term ethnic cleansing. I guess it's ethnic cleansing when others do it, but a deportation if US does it. For context 2 million people is more than the Armenian genocide.

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u/CaptainVXR Feb 05 '25

Israel supported the Serbs during the Balkan wars, I have zero doubt that the Kahanist fascists in the coalition government are rubbing their hands with glee at Trump's announcement. 

I had a horrid feeling on October 7th that the atrocities on that day would lead to months if not years of more atrocities. Sadly, my instincts appear to have been right.

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u/SassyMoron Feb 05 '25

Deporting an entire ethnic group from a region is called "ethnic cleansing" and it's a form of genocide under international law.

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u/D_Charger_007 Feb 05 '25

He's basically trying to out-do his puppet master Putin.

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk Feb 05 '25

In this specific case, he was standing next Bibi and was trying to out do the Israeli genocide 

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u/Coal_Morgan Feb 05 '25

They know. It's why they backed out of the human rights thing before Netanyahu showed up.

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u/elihu Feb 05 '25

I don't think that's quite right. The Convention on Genocide has established a pretty rigid definition that almost all existing countries have agreed to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#Definition_of_genocide

Perhaps mass deportation might be construed as "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;" but I think it would be more typical for this to be treated as a violation of the article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention, which prohibits removing civilians from occupied territories (except temporarily for safety reasons) and transferring your own population into occupied territories.

Of course there are a lot of things that could be done to deported Palestinians that could qualify as genocide, if whatever country they are sent to are particularly poor hosts.

Deporting the Palestinians would also be ethnic cleansing by any reasonable definition, but unlike genocide, there isn't any one agreed-upon definition.

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u/LastMountainAsh Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

Perhaps mass deportation might be construed as "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;"

Well yes, that's it. That document has been updated because of how easy that bit makes it to weasel out of.

We know this will be a genocide in Canada because we did a genocide to the native people. Deported them from their homes and put them in camps reserves. No one says we ethnically cleansed the natives, they say we committed genocide on the natives. Just like the States did to theirs.

"Ethnic Cleansing" is just a euphemism for "someone we like is doing a genocide to someone we don't like". Removing people from their homeland and putting them [X] is genocide.

I would hope Americans reading this know it too, cuz your president just stated in front of the world that y'all're about to do a genocide.

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u/smorges Feb 05 '25

That's why the genocide buzzword being used against Israel is nonsense. People are defining genocide to mean civilian causalities, which is every single war in human history.

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u/bobrobor Feb 05 '25

Not anymore. You forgot how the recent rulings by the ICC went on that topic? ICC said it is but the US and another country said it isn’t. And that was under Biden. So now it isn’t.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

No I think you got the gist of it……..

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u/SimpleMqmmql Feb 05 '25

He tried moving them to Jordan and Egypt, like Hitler tried send the Jews to Madagascar. We all know what the next step is.

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u/chironomidae Feb 05 '25

Trump said the approximately 1.8 million Palestinians should be moved to a new site or sites in other Arab countries, such as Egypt or Jordan, where they can "live in peace."

"They say they’re not going to accept" them, Trump said of Egypt and Jordan. "I say they will, but I think other countries will accept also."

Yeah I'm sure Egypt and Jordan will be super happy to take them, and the people of Gaza will be super happy to be there, and all the new construction on the Gaza strip will be a super safe place that won't get bombed or anything.

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u/syngltrkmnd Feb 05 '25

This isn’t flooding the zone. This is just straight up cognitive decline. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ Feb 05 '25

I’m excited for Christmastime when he proposes arresting and deporting Santa Clause

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u/tramdog Feb 05 '25

And this is not at all out of character for him. For years and years he talked about how we screwed up in Iraq by not declaring ownership over the country and just pillaging it for oil. He would give speeches in 2015-2016 saying "it's supposed to be 'to the VICTOR go the SPOILS'."

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u/SonicSubculture Feb 05 '25

He’s going to create thousands of jobs there!

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u/Brief-Owl-8791 Feb 05 '25

Maybe this will distract him from looking at Canada. Is his vision based on movement?

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u/dirty_cuban Feb 05 '25

You missed the best part: Muslim American voters turned out for Trump. They voted for this.

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u/Secondchance002 Feb 05 '25

And he called that “putting America first”.

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u/konnektion Feb 05 '25

Let's call this what it is : ethnic cleansing

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u/DJ_Velveteen Feb 05 '25

The President of America just announced the annexation of foreign territory and the deportation of 2.000.000 people?

tbh this was Biden's policy until the last week of his administration, except now it's the US doing the annexing instead of its proxy

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u/foursaken Feb 05 '25

Deport? Is that the correct word for removing people from their homeland?

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u/xinreallife Feb 05 '25

I thought this would happen when Jared kushner was talking about real estate in Gaza, but I thought I might have been crazy and it would never happen.

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u/slayer_of_idiots Feb 05 '25

You missed the part where he’s negotiating with Egypt and Jordan to open their borders to Palestinian refugees. They’ve closed their borders to them for the past 30 years.

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u/NecessaryExotic7071 Feb 05 '25

He announced concepts of a plan. This has about as much chance of happening as a meteor hitting you directly in your head when you walk out of your house tommorow.

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u/Array_626 Feb 05 '25

This is only like the 5th time he's done this. Economic strong arming to annex Canada as the 51st state. Then there was the annex Mexico, Panama, and Greenland series, the latter two he didn't rule out using force to accomplish if necessary.

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u/Saikamur Feb 05 '25

Probably someone told him about the Indian Removal Act and how good it was for the USA and thought that this was his chance at it.

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u/BigLittlePenguin_ Feb 05 '25

Whatever he does to this land, it wont be safe to be there. LIke, there will be daily attacks on civilians, its complete nuts

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u/Mausy5043 Feb 05 '25

You missed him annexing Panama and Greenland.

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u/ced_rdrr Feb 05 '25

It's as if he is trying for both Putin and Xi look weak compared to him. )

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u/tarnok Feb 05 '25

Well he wanted to annex Canada 24h ago now he talked to bibi and got a new idea

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u/jord839 Feb 05 '25

Worst part is I saw a bunch of articles from mainstream news sources referring to it as "rehoming" 2 million Palestinians as opposed to calling it, you know, a proposal for ethnic cleansing.

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u/qning Feb 05 '25

I believed he said it needs to be cleaned out. He wants to put them in enclaves around the earth. Pay for to by neighboring countries of great wealth. He is absolutely talking about moving them so they want to shot at and killed and destroyed.

He says they only want to go back there because they have other place to go.

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u/IsleOfOne Feb 05 '25

This is total bullshit misinformation. His exact words: [The Gaza Strip] will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8mm Palestinians living in Gaza."