Leave Gaza to Palestinians
India, Feb. 6 -- President Donald Trump, who has pledged to end America's wars on foreign soil, told a joint news conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US could take over the Gaza Strip and develop it as the "Riviera of the Middle East", adding to the list of territories such as Greenland and the Panama Canal that he wants to wrest control of. His words, sometimes befitting a real estate tycoon more than a president of the US, would have been music to Netanyahu's ears, because a precondition for such a takeover was that two million Palestinians would have to move out of Gaza. This proposal, outlandish according to many, welcomed by Netanyahu, and immediately opposed by Palestine and its allies, only added insult to the injuries of the Palestinians, who have watched close to 50,000 people die in the Israeli attacks of the past 15 months and could have significant ramifications for power relations in West Asia....
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