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This is so ridiculous. It is so beyond – you cannot uproot a people from their land. That is literally the cornerstone of modern international law,
Palestinian-American human rights attorney Noura Erakat, of Rutgers University, told The Independent We're going to take it, we're going to hold it, we're going to cherish it. We're going to get it going eventually, where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the Middle East. It's going to be for the people in the Middle East,
[So ... So] frankly, I don't take it seriously,
It’s outside the box, but that’s what he always is,
Rubio told Scott Jennings I believe we’ll have a parcel of land in Egypt and a parcel of land in Jordan [to house Palestinians forced out of their homes],
Trump said as he joined the Jordanian leader in Washington Biden also proposed this, but the Egyptians pushed back hard and said, ‘there's no way we're going to absorb them into the Sinai’. And so it was abandoned as a plan,
Erakat said, referring to a Times of Israel report in 2023 indicating International humanitarian law prohibits the permanent forced displacement of the population of an occupied territory. When such forced displacement is carried out with criminal intent, it is a war crime. If carried out as part of widespread or systematic attack on the civilian population, reflecting state policy, it is a crime against humanity.”
Human Rights Watch used different language when the international civil liberties watchdog said of the plan last week We're not going to buy anything. We're going to have it,
he said of the land itself I’ve watched it so long, all the death and destruction of Gaza. A civilization’s been wiped out in Gaza,
It is staggering that a President of the United States would sanction and rubber stamp ethnic cleansing."
Andy McDonald, MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East added It shows just how detached he is from international norms, but it's imperative that the rest of the world resists and rejects that as a way forward,
Diplomacy cannot be an excuse for silence in the face of ethnic cleansing,
Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South, told The i Paper Nobody can any longer claim they didn't know, and don't know what's going on - a genocide,
No, they wouldn't because they're going to have much better housing.
Asked by Fox News host Bret Baier if Palestinians would have the right to return back to Gaza, Trump said If you have a look at what we’ve achieved already, it’s been a tremendous start to the relationship,
We of course, will use all of the human assets at our disposal. Australians will always stand up for Australia’s interests, and we will do that - we’ll continue to put the case,
We have to recognize, first of all, the massive hypocrisy in saying that Gaza is unlivable, and therefore the Palestinians cannot live there, when it is U.S. weapons and Israel’s actions that made it unlivable in the first place ― in the case of Israel’s actions, at least, with an intent of doing so,
said Josh Paul, co-founder of A New Policy who resigned from the Biden administration over its Gaza policy Forcible displacement, when carried out with an intent to permanently remove a people from a land on the basis of their identity is ethnic cleansing,
the letter stated, citing Article 49(1) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which the U.S. and Israel are both parties to The suffering of millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S.’s unconditional support for Israel throughout is harmful ― not only to millions of Palestinians, but also to Americans, to Israelis, to Arabs throughout the region, to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike,
said FCNL’s Odeliya Matter Palestine is not just an idea – it is a place. It is a homeland to the Palestinian people,
the letter read, including concern over Israel’s ongoing attacks in the occupied West Bank
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