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Stop Spewing ‘Fanatical Bulls…’ Rashida Tlaib Tells Trump

CrossFireArabia
February 5, 2025

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump’s recent controversial proposal for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, saying: “Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.”

“This president can only spew this fanatical bulls because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing. It’s time for my two-state solution colleagues to speak up,” Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress, wrote on X.

Palestinian-American U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib: "Palestinians aren't going anywhere. This president [Trump] can only spew this fanatical bullshit because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing. It's time for my two-state solution… pic.twitter.com/gX8syzXHeD
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 5, 2025

Earlier, rebuffing Trump’s comments on Gaza during a Monday White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tlaib said the president is “openly calling for ethnic cleansing while sitting next to a genocidal war criminal.”

“He’s perfectly fine cutting off working Americans from federal funds while the funding to the Israeli government continues flowing,” she added, referring to Trump’s federal funding freeze ordered last week.

During his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt should take in Palestinians from Gaza, calling the enclave a demolition site and uninhabitable.

He later doubled down on his proposal at a press conference with Netanyahu, saying the US “will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” according to Anadolu.

“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, (and) create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area,” Trump said as reported in the Turkish Anadolu news website.

Jordan, Egypt, and other regional players strongly rejected the proposal, while both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas condemned Trump’s remarks and rejected any attempt to displace Palestinians from their homeland.

Hamas called Trump’s proposal “a recipe for generating chaos and tension,” adding: “Our people in the Gaza Strip will not allow these plans to pass.”

Forcibly displacing a population without justification under international law constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

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China Scoffs at Trump’s Gaza ‘Take Over’ Plan

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February 5, 2025

China on Wednesday rebuffed US President Donald Trump’s plans to over “take over” Gaza, saying it opposes forced displacement of Palestinians to neighboring countries, state media reported.

Beijing “has always believed that ‘the Palestinians governing Palestine’ is the fundamental principle for postwar governance in Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters.

“We oppose the forced displacement and relocation of the population in Gaza,” Lin stressed, rejecting Trump’s controversial plans to take over the Palestinian besieged enclave.

The statement from Beijing came after Trump announced a plan for the US to “take over” the Gaza Strip and “develop it after relocating Palestinians to neighboring countries.”

Trump made the remarks in a joint news conference in Washington with visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” he said. “We’re going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it’ll be something that the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”

Trump gave no details on how the US would carry out the resettlement plan.

China’s Foreign Ministry, in contrast, said it hopes “all relevant parties will take the ceasefire in Gaza and post-war governance as an opportunity to push the Palestinian issue back onto the correct track of political resolution based on the ‘two-state solution,’ in order to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East,” according to Anadolu.

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Trump Wants The US to “Take Over” Gaza!

CrossFireArabia
February 5, 2025

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will visit Israel, Gaza, Saudi Arabia and other places in the Middle East.

“I love Israel. I will visit there, and I’ll visit Gaza, and I’ll visit Saudi Arabia, and I’ll visit other places all over the Middle East,” he said during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

“Why would they want to go back?” Trump says about Palestinians in Gaza while he sits next to the smiling man mostly responsible for the destruction in Gaza.

He called for the U.S. to take over Gaza after “resettling” Palestinians in other countries.

That’s ethnic cleansing. pic.twitter.com/ro9Lcy9FEQ
— Nazanin Nour (@NazaninNour) February 5, 2025

“The Middle East is an incredible place, so vibrant. It’s just one of the really beautiful places and with great people. And I think a lot of bad leadership has taken place in the Middle East that’s allowed this to happen. It’s just terrible,” he said.

“And that includes on the American side, by the way. We should have never gotten in there a long time ago, spent trillions of dollars and created so much death,” he added.

Trump’s remarks came as he hosted Netanyahu at the White House as the first foreign leader since his inauguration.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman calls for Netanyahu to be held criminally responsible for their crimes against Palestinians…

Saudi Prince also called for an end to the illegal occupation and the recognition of the “State of Palestine” with the 1967 border and… pic.twitter.com/ucWBa0VUSj
— Pelham (@Resist_05) February 5, 2025

Netanyahu’s visit came amid a fragile ceasefire in Gaza that took hold on Jan. 19, halting Israel’s war, which has killed more than 47,500 people and left the enclave in ruins since an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s health authorities.

Nearly 1,200 people were killed in the cross-border attack led by Hamas, according to Israeli figures.

During the news conference, Trump made controversial remarks, saying the US will “take over” the Gaza Strip, which came shortly after he suggested a permanent resettlement of Palestinians outside Gaza according to Anadolu.

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US Protestors Slam Trump For Hosting a ‘War Criminal’

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February 5, 2025

Pro-Palestinian groups gathered Tuesday outside the White House in Washington, DC to protest Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump.

The demonstration came as Trump hosted Netanyahu in the Oval Office for talks.

Netanyahu’s visit to the US capital comes as a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas continues to hold in Gaza, where more than 47,500 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023.

Waving Palestinian flags, the protestors chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “Stop hosting a war criminal.”

They also held signs saying “Prime Minister of Genocide,” “Netanyahu is a War Criminal” and “Israel Kills.

🪧Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Trump protested outside the White House in Washington, DC

🗣️ Among the protesters who spoke to Anadolu were religious Jews who called Netanyahu a war criminal and those who complained that their taxes were funding… pic.twitter.com/RO82RSd8zO
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) February 5, 2025

The protesters also called for the arrest of Netanyahu, who is facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Netanyahu ‘should be at The Hague’

Matthew Watterman, who protested Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump, told Anadolu that the US has backed 15 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza and decades of Israeli occupation and war crimes against the Palestinian people.

“We believe that Netanyahu coming here, to our city to ask for yet more of our tax money to be used to commit atrocities against the Palestinian people is something that has to be protested, has to be resisted,” he said.

Watterman said Americans do not want their tax dollars used to “commit atrocities.”

“We don’t want our taxes used for genocide. We don’t want them used for occupation. We don’t want them used for colonization,” he added.

Another protester, Dolia C., said Netanyahu is a “war criminal.”

“He shouldn’t really be here. He should be at The Hague,” she told Anadolu.

Palestinians deserve their rights, freedom and their land back, she stressed.

Trump should stop ‘this brutal occupation’

Yitzchok Deutsch, a rabbi, said it is “ridiculous” for “a war criminal” to claim that he is representing the Jewish religion.

“This is totally false. We are standing now after 15 months of a terrible genocide, unimaginable genocide, broadcasted live on TV and social media,” Deutsch told Anadolu.

Netanyahu is using religion to justify “all these crimes,” he added.

“We are here with a message to President Trump: If you would like to be the president of peace in the world, you should stop this movement of Zionism, stop this brutal occupation which has been taking place for over 76 years,” Deutsch said.

Trump said Monday that he cannot guarantee that the ceasefire in Gaza will hold and told reporters in the Oval Office that he has “no assurances” that the truce will remain in force.

“I’ve seen people brutalized. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. No, I have no guarantees that the peace is going to hold,” he said.

Before meeting with Netanyahu, Trump reiterated his suggestion of moving Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, saying “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza.”