'Scott Adkins in a fat suit' Box

One of the most ridiculous narratives about Gaza we're seeing in the news today is that the plan to remove all Palestinians from the territory is a brand new idea that was conceived by Donald Trump. Israeli think tanks and intelligence services were pushing the plan to move Gaza's inhabitants to Egypt within days of the October 7 attack. The Biden administration tried unsuccessfully to get Cairo to facilitate this agenda. Kicking the Palestinians out of Gaza to neighboring Arab states has always been the plan; it didn't just emerge out of nowhere when Trump became president. And yet you'll see everyone on both sides of the mainstream partisan divide furiously pushing this narrative that this is all Trump's idea, whether they support or oppose the ethnic cleansing agenda. If they support it they talk it up as some brilliant outside-the-box innovation nobody's ever thought of before, and if they oppose it they completely erase from history the fact that it was being advanced under the Biden administration in the early days of the onslaught. I just saw Alan Dershowitz babbling about how we should all "thank Donald Trump for coming up with the first new idea in many, many years about how to solve this problem," but it ISN'T a new idea, and Trump DIDN'T come up with it. Driving Palestinians out of their historic homeland has been the Zionist vision for the region since before Israel was even established as a state, and all of its actions from 1948 on have born that out. This has always been about ending the existence of Palestinians in Palestine. And that's all it has EVER been about. Not October 7. Not hostages. Not fighting terrorism. Not self-defense. This is about driving Palestinians out of their homeland so that their territory can eventually be fully and officially absorbed by Israel.