cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25698405

from #Reuters
By James Mackenzie and Doina Chiacu
February 6, 20251:46 PM EST

“We will not sell our land for you, real estate developer. We are hungry, homeless, and desperate but we are not collaborators,” said Abdel Ghani, a father of four living with his family in the ruins of their #Gaza City home. “If ( #Trump) wants to help, let him come and rebuild for us here.”

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    It is unclear whether Trump will go ahead with his proposal or, in keeping with his self-image as a shrewd dealmaker pattern of being a manipulative bullshitter who doesn’t care whether anything he says is true or not, has simply laid out an extreme position as a . [sic, sentence ends here in original]

    Yeah, random Reuters reporter, I probably would have needed to stop writing that sentence right there to go throw up in self disgust too.

    His first term in 2017-21 was replete with what critics said were over-the-top foreign policy pronouncements any objective observer would call “lies”, many of which were never implemented.

    I feel like he’s going to make a big show out of being shitty to Palestinians because that’s what his voters want, but I feel like his administration is going to have a hard time finding anything to do to them the previous administration didn’t already allow to happen. We’ve been at the point of dropping bombs on bombed out rubble for months already.