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The idea that we’re going to clear Gaza out of Palestinians, that drives young men to extremist groups, to violence, to groups that are based around violence,
Murphy, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Wednesday in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." This kind of language only is going to galvanize groups that want to kill Americans,
said former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos This most recent development will hypercharge these existing trends and provide fodder for the Islamic State to tap into it and leverage it to build support, empower its rhetoric, recruit and even incite violence,
The addition of the Gaza announcement coupled with the erosion of our security services could really elevate the terrorist threat,
They will start attacking Americans to deter us from starting down this road again,
Global jihadist groups will also use a narrative of the United States occupying Arab lands as a rallying cry for new recruits,
said O’Leary, senior vice president at the Soufan Group, a global security consultancy I think every CIA station chief in the Middle East woke up this morning with a migraine headache, because there’s a potential for a generational counterterrorism nightmare here,
Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA officer who worked in the region, said Wednesday in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." I really like what he said, but in my wildest dreams... it's hard for me to believe it will happen, but who knows,
said 65-year-old Refael from Jerusalem, as quoted by AFP Trump's remarks about Washington taking control of Gaza amount to an open declaration of intent to occupy the territory,
Qassem said, as quoted by AFP They can do whatever they want, but we will remain steadfast in our homeland,
said 41-year-old Gazan Ahmed Halasa Those denouncing Trump's plan should step forward and provide a solution and answer to that problem."
In the search for solutions, we must not make the problem worse" by moving Palestinians out of Gaza
When I said this time and again during the war, that this was the solution to Gaza, they mocked me.”
Itamar Ben-Gvir, who left Benjamin Netanyahu’s shaky coalition government due to the ceasefire with Hamas, said What has changed now is that Trump has said that it is US policy to support this as an end goal,
Matt Duss, the executive vice-president at the Center for International Policy, said of the Trump proposal There was a Palestinian state. It was called Gaza. Look how that turned out.”
But it also marks a serious shift towards some of the pro-settler advisers that he has elevated, including his nominee for ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said on Fox News in January The first is what’s the U.S. role going to be post-war in Gaza? I don’t think it will look anything like what Trump suggested on Tuesday night,
said Bolton in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins So there’s a lot to decide there and I think simply rebuilding a high-rise refugee camp in Gaza is a prescription for another Oct. 7 in due course,
Remember the saying, capital is a coward. You’re not going to get private investment in a highly politically risky, non-secure situation. You have to get security before you get the investment,
The Palestinian people have the right to simply live as human beings in their own land. The @UN is fully committed to peace, stability, and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people."
António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, posted to X on Wednesday We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and all of the other weapons on the site."
