Fox News Hosts Praise Trump’s Plan for Military Occupation in the Middle East: ‘Shooting To Be the Greatest Dealmaker in History’
President Donald Trump floated a plan for the United States to occupy Gaza for the foreseeable future, and Fox News hosts love the idea.
Trump held a joint press conference on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. The president reiterated his belief that all Palestinians in Gaza should leave the territory so the U.S. can rebuild it and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said while casually stating Palestinians should be expelled from the territory. “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, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job.”
Such an undertaking would require the expulsion of nearly two million Palestinians, followed by a lengthy military occupation in an area of the world that has largely frowned upon such things.
After the press conference, multiple Fox News hosts praised Trump for pledging massive amounts of U.S. resources to take over Gaza. Even if they did not entirely buy into the idea, they hailed him for offering it.
Laura Ingraham said that while an occupation of Gaza might be viewed as “perilously close to nation building,” she agreed with guest Charlie Hurt, who said this U.S. military occupation could be different if the U.S. extracts material benefits:
Better get paid first… I think it’s so foreign to us to hear this, that, wait a second. We actually may solve a problem, we actually may make money on it. Like that’s a bad thing for the United States to get repaid for the tens of billions of dollars just in the last few years we’ve dumped into the Middle East and trillions we have spent over the years. When we go to Iraq, we break it. And then we don’t get the oil leases or any of the rebuild. And meanwhile, we leave our equipment there, tens of billions of dollars in Afghanistan. For what?
In the following hour, Jesse Watters said he doesn’t know if Trump’s plan is a solution, but nonetheless he is willing to try it.
Trump’s shooting to be the greatest dealmaker in history. There’s one deal no president’s ever been able to make… peace in the Middle East. Is taking over Gaza the solution? We don’t know… But you’re not gonna get results by doing the same old thing over and over again.
And Sean Hannity also found Trump’s proposal impressive.
Let’s be clear. What the president is saying is Gaza can no longer be a safe haven for terrorists to launch attacks against Israel and others… He is negotiating and sending a loud message to the entire Arab world: Get engaged, end this conflict once and for all, eliminate terrorism in the area, and a new day will begin.
Watch above via Fox News.