I actually agree with the Arab world on this one

Headline:

Arab World and International Leaders Reject Trump’s Gaza Plan
Trump’s plan for the United States to take over and redevelop the Gaza Strip while relocating its residents has found few supporters abroad.

The Arab world and many world leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s plan, outlined on Feb. 4, for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip.

Key nations, including U.S. allies, have rejected it outright.

Saudi Arabia reiterated that it won’t normalize its relations with Israel without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

Its foreign ministry also opposed Trump’s plan to resettle Gaza’s current residents elsewhere.

France’s foreign ministry, opposing the plan, was quoted in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as saying, “[The plan] would constitute a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, but also a major obstacle to the two-state solution and a major destabilizing factor for our close partners Egypt and Jordan as well as for the entire region.”

Jordan’s King Abdullah rejected any attempt to annex land and displace Palestinians, according to the Times of Israel.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in the British Parliament, “[The Palestinians] must be allowed home, they must be allowed to rebuild, and we should be with them in that rebuild on the way to a two-state solution.”

Spain and Russia both reiterated support for a two-state solution.

The terrorist group Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since Israel’s 2005 pullout, opposed the proposal, with spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri calling Trump’s remarks “ridiculous and absurd.”

Hamas began the war that led to Gaza’s devastation with its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel in which 1,200 people, primarily Israeli civilians but also foreign nationals and hundreds of Israeli troops—were killed, 251 taken hostage, and thousands wounded.

Can't say I give a shit what Starmer thinks (I'd rather hear what Farage thinks), but going in and nation-building is some neocon shit right there, Don. What's gotten into you? I thought MAGA was anti-neocon. Don't you remember the Gulf War, and all the warnings about quagmire and mission creep and snipers and IEDs? All the stuff that happened to our occupying troops in Vietnam? We'd be condemning our builders to slow, random death. No, let the Arabs build if they have the will and the self-organizational skills to build without killing each other. The people of that part of the world used to be capable of glorious feats of philosophy, science, architecture, and so much else. To return to that, though, they first need to transcend the current culture of anger, ignorance, and death. I don't know whether that's possible, any more than I see the US taking care of its national debt in my lifetime.

Of course, this could just be some of the old 4D chess or A/B testing from the 2016 era. Maybe Trump's real aim is something else. In negotiations, start way higher than what you really want, and bargain down: in that way, what you really want will seem reasonable. But what does Trump really want? We recently saw the same thing with Greenland and Panama.