Welcome to the sparkling 25-mile-long Gaza Coast. Please acquaint yourself with one of the most glorious resort areas on the Mediterranean this side of Tel Aviv. We've driven out the suicide bombers, you can still find the occasional Kaffiyeh cloths as swimsuit cover-ups, and some of the Palestinians we've driven out along with their Hamas overlords may someday come back if they promise not to murder people.
If you happened to see Donald Trump's news conference with Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, you probably felt the full weight of what they told the world about their plans for the Gaza strip. Anywhere else in the world, land like the Gaza Strip, a 25-mile-long coastal strip on the Med, would be a profit center for any country. Indeed, if you doubt, see it for yourself.
The Mediterranean coastal communities are beautiful from Egypt, Israel, Türkiye and Italy. Gaza could be equally beautiful with 40 kilometres (24 miles) of prime coastal access.
— Patrick Coleman (@P_Coleman) February 5, 2025
What's missing? Freedom from Hamas oppression.
See the coastline of Türkiye: pic.twitter.com/Lq2qX6DFKt
In Gaza, the beaches are a wasteland. The inept and greedy terrorists whose cards have been punched by the Israelis following the October 7 attack are no longer in charge and now the leaders of the civilized world are drawing up plans for how to revive it.
Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would take over the Gaza coast and it could become "The Riviera of the Middle East."
It wasn't too long ago that some people in the Palestinian terror-tory had the same vision.
Someone posted on X a 2011 tourist video about what the Gaza coast could look like.
Tourism in Gaza:
— David Saranga (@DavidSaranga) February 1, 2024
In 2011 the Tourism Ministry of Gaza released this campaign - this is what Gaza could look like.
Gaza's coastline along the Mediterranean Sea offers beautiful beaches where you can relax, swim, and enjoy the sea breeze…the city is famous for its hand-woven… pic.twitter.com/yVml2ZOJde
In Donald Trump's head, having all that beachfront property without developing it is a lost opportunity for any country. He and Bibi Netanyahu announced Tuesday that the U.S. could take it over and restore civilizational sanity.
And the world's heads exploded.
In his piece about this, my PJ Media colleague Robert Spencer wrote:
The most momentous announcement of this most momentous of press conferences was Trump’s declaration that Hamas would not be permitted to regain control of Gaza and that, in fact, the U.S. "will take over the Gaza Strip... we will own it." He also reiterated his insistence that 1.7 million Palestinians would be relocated to Egypt and Jordan, explaining several times that this was necessary because the failed policies of the past should not and must not be applied yet again.
As Trump said in the presser on Tuesday, the world just can't go back and make the same mistake over and over again. Hamas was a disaster, the Palestinian state has been a failure, and he announced that the U.S. would go in, clear all the mines and explosives, remove the bombed-out buildings, and begin the task of rebuilding.
ART OF THE DEAL: The entire, ‘we own Gaza’ is a real-time negotiating tactic. You can see it on Bibi’s face. Trump doesn’t want Gaza but his shoring the narrative and changing the game. pic.twitter.com/faHI1RmOPb
— @amuse (@amuse) February 5, 2025
After Trump suggested that the U.S. take it over, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib said her homeland would not join civilization but remain a broken hell hole. I might have taken liberties with my summation of her thoughts.
From the river to the sea, say goodbye to your death cult.
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) February 5, 2025
I guess Tlaib didn't get the word about her side losing the war.
It's hard to overstate the importance of this announcement. Whether or not this is a typical Trump negotiating tactic, he has completely flipped the tables and made the world rethink what to do with Gaza. Trump told the world's leftists, who for years have tried and failed to carve out a civilization in Gaza, that the world is done trying and that it's time for the big boys to take over.
And suddenly, that seems like a plan that could work.
