U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks on Tuesday evening that the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip” are “cruel, immoral and impractical,” Mark Mellman, the president and CEO of Democratic Majority for Israel, stated on Wednesday.
“One of DMFI’s founding principles is support for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Mellman stated. “While terrorist attacks by Hamas, Hezbollah and others have made that goal more difficult to achieve and pushed the timetable farther into the future, we remain committed to that approach.”
It is important to remain focused on phase two of the ceasefire and hostage release deal, according to Mellman. “Instead, the president is calling for the forcible relocation of two million Gazans,” he stated.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a staunch Trump supporter, was among the U.S. lawmakers who told Jewish Insider that president’s plan was imprudent. “I don’t know that I think it’s the best use of United States resources to spend a bunch of money in Gaza,” he told the publication.
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