Trump’s plan for Gaza ridiculed as unserious. So why did he float it?

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Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada as the 51st state – and now a rebuilt and redeveloped Gaza Strip?

President Donald Trump’s bombshell proposal Tuesday for the United States to “own” a Gaza depopulated of its 2 million Palestinians and make it the “Riviera of the Middle East” is the latest – and perhaps most shocking – example of a new American manifest destiny.

All of Mr. Trump’s expansionist musings have been received by an incredulous world with varying degrees of suspicion, dismissiveness, and rejection. But the idea of an imperial America taking over a piece of Palestinian homeland – with American boots on the ground if necessary – and refashioning it into a glitzy Mediterranean playground is eye-popping.

Why We Wrote This

While President Donald Trump has ridiculed past U.S. military deployments and nation-building efforts, he has consistently been drawn to Mideast diplomacy. But his proposal to “own” and develop the Gaza Strip and displace its population has many questioning how serious he is.

And not productive, say some Middle East experts.

“This is the least serious of all of these ideas” of territorial expansion and U.S. ownership, “but in the moment it is the most destructive,” says Aaron David Miller, who has served as a senior adviser on Arab-Israeli issues to both Republican and Democratic administrations.

“It’s done to disrupt, it’s done to keep people off balance,” he adds, “but all it really does is undermine U.S. allies and partners and make it harder to realize [Mr. Trump’s] own goals for the region.”

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