Today's Gaza is a wasteland of devastation. There is no way that a Palestinian would want to live there, except for reasons of self-determination. And none of the Arab powers need to have the Palestinians there, except Hamas.

It would certainly solve the problem if the 2 million Gazans would just go away. So, what to do? President Trump came up with the quick answer, the easy solution.

Let’s move the 2 million permanently out of Gaza. But where? And how? And who will take them? Unclear. A nitwit idea.

Who would move them out and do the heavy lifting? The U.S. military on a dangerous mission? Hamas remains well-armed and lethal. Does Trump expect Hamas’s fighters to disarm and vanish into the Sinai?

And who would fund the reclamation of Gaza? Who else? The U.S., of course, perhaps with the money saved by defunding USAID and the Department of Education. Nothing like America First.

In Trump’s fantasy, Gaza would become a travel destination for the peoples of the world, a Valhalla in the Middle East. Its coastline would be studded with hotels owned perhaps by Elon Musk — a Gaza Riviera where Trump’s oligarch friends could moor their yachts while sunning themselves on the Mediterranean.

The idea was so bad that the White House was quick to dial it back. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified Trump’s statement that the U.S. would “own” Gaza: “The administration does not intend to pay for the........

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