Washington – President Donald Trump The voters promised to voters an administration that would not waste a valuable American life and a treasure of taxpayers in distant wars and construction of the nation.
But only weeks after his second round in the White House, the Republican leader presented plans to use American power to “take charge” and rebuild Gaza, threatened with Claim control of the Panama Canal And the idea that the United States floated I could buy Greenland from Denmark, which has not shown interest in separating from the island.
The rhetorical change of America first To the United States everywhere is leaving even some of its comfortable allies, and wondering if it is really serious.
“The search for peace must be that of the Israelis and the Palestinians”, ” A bewildered senator Rand Paul, the Republican of Kentucky and Trump’s ally, published Wednesday on social networks. “I thought we first voted for the United States. We have no business contemplating another occupation to condemn our treasure and spill the blood of our soldiers. “
The shocking statement of the president on Tuesday that he wants to eliminate approximately 1.8 million Palestinians from Gaza and rebuild the territory with war scars in the “Riviera del Middle East” With the American property “in the long term” he raises new questions about the direction of Trump’s foreign policy during his second mandate that breaks the norm.
Is Trump’s imperialist talk destined to seem hard on the world stage? Are you simply trying to give Israeli prime minister? Benjamin Netanyahu Cover with extreme right members of its ruling coalition who oppose progress with the second phase of the high fire agreement with Hamas? Is the proposal for the acquisition of Gaza a monitoring of land by a president who sees the world through the prism of a New York real estate developer? Or is it possibly a bit of everything up?
Whatever the answer, Trump’s game in Gaza has perplexed Washington, and the world, while trying to make sense to the doctrine of the president’s foreign policy.
President’s advisors looked for Wednesday to mode neighboring Arab nations.
Both his main diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, moved away from Trump’s suggestion that the Gazanes would be relocated “permanently.”
Rubio said Trump’s proposal to take “property” of Gaza and rebuild the area It must be seen as a “generous” offer.
“It was not understood as a hostile movement,” Rubio said during his visit to Guatemala. “It was understood as … a very generous movement.”
Rubio added that the moment was “similar to a natural disaster.” People will not be able to live Gaza in the coming years because there are ammunition, debris and debris without exploiting.
“Meanwhile, obviously people will have to live somewhere while rebuilding him,” he said.
Trump would not rule out the possibility that US troops be deployed to carry out their plan.
But Leavitt minimized the prospects that Trump’s plan would come with a cost for US taxpayers or Trump would deploy US forces.
“The President has made it very clear that the United States must participate in this reconstruction effort, to guarantee stability in the region for all people,” Leavitt told the White House journalists. “But that does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza. It does not mean that US taxpayers finance this effort. “
The White House still has to explain with which Trump authority could carry its Gaza proposal. The administration has not clarified how Trump would approach the rigid opposition to any relocation of the population of Gaza of the Arab allies, including Egypt and Jordan, who hopes to go to the Palestinians.
Even so, they insist that Trump is only looking for a response to the generational struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians who has convulsed the region for decades and frustrated many of his predecessors of the White House.
“Madness is doing the same again and again and waiting for different results,” Leavitt said. “President Trump is a thinker outside the box and a visionary leader who solves problems that many others, especially in this city, say they are insoluble.”
The expansionist talk in Gaza is developing while Trump has begun an effort to close the United States Agency for International DevelopmentThe federal agency that provides crucial help that finances education and fight against hunger, epidemics and poverty abroad. Trump sees him as a poster son of government waste and the advance of liberal social programs.
That divided screen has won some of Trump’s democratic detractors.
Senator Chris Coans, D-Del., Described Trump’s proposal “offensive, crazy, dangerous and silly.” Worse, he said, “runs the risk that the rest of the world thinks that we are an unbalanced and unreliable partner because our president makes crazy proposals.”
Coans added that it was particularly irritating that Trump floats the idea at a time when he also insists that Usaid be dismantled in the name of the fight against government waste.
“Why would demons abandon decades of well established humanitarian programs, and now we would launch one of the world’s greatest humanitarian challenges?” Coons said.
Trump’s impulse was rejected round on Wednesday by European and Middle East Allies, including those who are asking that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have not been homeless for war have been left without.
The Arab League, the regional group of 22 members, said the proposal “represents a recipe for instability.” British prime minister Keir Starmer said that the Palestinians displaced in Gaza “must afford the home.” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the displacement of the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza would be “unacceptable” and “against international law.”
Senator Lindsey Graham, Trump’s ally, said that “the idea that Americans enter the field in Gaza is not a stress for each senator.”
“So I would suggest that we return to what we have been trying to do, which is to destroy Hamas and find a way for the Arab world to take care of Gaza and the West Bank, in a way that would lead to a Palestinian state that Israel can Live with him, ”said Graham.
But even when his Gaza proposal was criticized, Trump continued to insist that he has broad support.
“Everyone loves,” Trump said in a brief exchange with journalists.
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The writers of Associated Press Jill Lawless in London, Matthew Lee, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and Farnoush Amiri and Stephen Groves in Washington contributed to this report.
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