India, Feb. 5 -- US President Donald Trump has said that all Palestinians should permanently leave the Gaza Strip and move to "nice homes" in Egypt and Jordan, and declared the US will take over the land and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East". He has also said that within the next month, the US will take a position on Israeli sovereignty over West Bank.

The unprecedented US proposal on Gaza that critics alleged amounted to a call for "ethnic cleansing" brought a huge smile to Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, widely seen as the man responsible for the devastation of Gaza, the reason Trump cited for his decision to take over the strip, while sparking outrage across the Arab world.

Netanyahu was visiting Trump in the White House on...