Trump’s real-estate instincts clash with his America First worldview
Don’t be surprised if U.S. foreign policy includes a lot of real estate development when real estate developers become presidents.
This is probably the biggest conclusion of Donald Trump’s amazing proposal.
As long as Trump participates in the highest level of American politics, it also raises the latest iteration of ongoing problems.
Should Trump’s Gaza development plan include resettlement of more than 2 million Palestinians on disputed land? Neither of either?
Trump’s proposal faces the deep aspirations of the Palestinian people and is publicly rejected by Arab countries that will have to play an integral part in resettlement of those displaced people from war-torn war-torn Gaza The role of
It has also sparked protests from the international community as well as domestic critics of the Democratic president.
“Like Trump golf resorts, developing war-hardened land is not a peace plan, but an insult,” said Troy Carter, a Democratic Congressman in Louisiana. “Serious leaders seek real Solutions, not real estate transactions.”
Even Trump’s most determined Republican allies seem cautious about the president’s suggestion that U.S. troops can occupy Gaza, remove rubble and remove undeveloped Israeli decrees.
“I think most South Carolinas may not be excited about sending Americans to take over Gaza,” Lindsey Graham, who represents the U.S. Senate South Carolina, said Wednesday. “I think that might be a problem Yes, but I will remain open.”
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is more straightforward.
He wrote on X: “I thought we would vote for America first. We have no business thinking about another career to doom our treasure and spill the blood of our soldiers.”
Paul stressed the obvious contradictions in President Trump’s early days. Although Trump seized foreign aid from the United States and promised to focus on domestic attention in the United States, he also spoke about American expansionism.
His interest in getting Greenland is lasting and serious, according to government officials. His talk about making Canada the “51st state” and recapturing the Panama Canal is no longer treated like a joke.
Now, Trump is one of the most voiced right-wing critics of the U.S.’s invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, suggesting a new Middle East country-building project.
As for the specific thoughts behind Trump’s latest proposal, they may shock some people, but they shouldn’t be too shocked.
The president talked about “cleaning up” Gaza and Palestinians addressed Air Force reporters a few days after the inauguration.
During the presidential campaign, he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that Gaza might be “better than Monaco”, but that Palestinians “never used their best location in the Middle East.”
This is not the first time Trump has viewed the seemingly tricky foreign policy situation as an exciting business opportunity.
During a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in 2018, President Trump marveled at the “big beach” of the Hermit Country that one day there may be “best hotels”.
Those ambitious dreams are put on hold – Trump’s Gaza vision requires a significant commitment to the blood and wealth of the United States when it withdraws foreign participation, and will almost certainly encounter the same fate.
But Trump’s Gaza proposal does represent a clear shift in the U.S. commitment to a settlement of the Palestinian situation in both countries.
A generous explanation for the U.S. strategy is that it aims to shake the Middle East powers and force them to assume more of their own resources and political will in search of long-term solutions to the situation in Gaza.
But this strategy will bring risks.
Multi-step Israel-Hamas ceasefire hanging in balance. Palestinians can see Trump’s remarks as a sign that the United States is not interested in lasting peace, and Israel’s hard-working workers are a key part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, which may be celebrated It, to celebrate Trump’s green light, further expand Israeli settlements.
Arab countries – some of them working with the first Trump administration to establish normalized relations with Israel in the Abraham agreement – may doubt whether Trump can be a reliable negotiating partner in his second term.
Now, there is years of evidence that Trump’s focus can be shifted to a moment’s notice. Finally, he could abandon all attempts to establish lasting Middle East peace, blame the Palestinians and their Arab allies on his decision to reject the prospect of a better life from past conflicts.
It can then go back to a trade war with Canada, North Korea’s apartments, mining sites in Greenland, or other challenges that don’t divide their own parties or need to resolve hundreds of years of hatred, seemingly tricky ancestors’ concerns.
