在一个惊人的提议中，总统唐纳德·特朗普美国国务卿赖斯星期二说，美国将“接管”加沙地带，“平整场地”并进行重建，此前她曾表示，居住在那里的巴勒斯坦人应该离开。
他在与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡一起举行的新闻发布会上说，“相反，他们可以在其他地区或国家占据一个拥有家园和安全的美丽地区，并在和平与和谐中度过他们的一生”。
“美国将接管加沙地带，我们也将在那里开展工作。我们将拥有它，并负责拆除现场所有危险的未爆炸弹和其他武器。平整场地，清除毁坏的建筑。把它拉平，”他说。
“创造一个经济发展，为该地区的人民提供无限数量的就业机会和住房，”他补充说。“做一份真正的工作。做点不一样的。”
“我们应该带着人道主义的心去其他感兴趣的国家，他们中有许多人想这样做，并建立各种领域，最终将由生活在加沙的180万巴勒斯坦人占据，结束死亡和破坏，坦率地说，厄运，”他说。“这可以由邻国的巨大财富来支付。可能是一、二、三、四、五、七、八、十二。它可能是许多网站，也可能是一个大网站，”他说。
“但人们将能够生活在舒适与和平之中，并将确保——我们将确保一些真正壮观的事情得以完成。他们会得到和平。他们不会像这个由优秀人民组成的文明所经历的那样被射杀、杀害和毁灭。巴勒斯坦人想回到加沙的唯一原因是他们别无选择。
“我确实看到了一个长期的所有权位置，我看到它给中东的那个地区，也许是整个中东带来了巨大的稳定。和我交谈过的每个人，这不是一个轻易做出的决定，”他继续说。“我交谈过的每个人都喜欢美国拥有那块土地的想法，在一个没有人知道的真正宏伟的地区开发和创造数千个就业机会。”
当被问及谁会住在那里时，特朗普回答说，“世界人民”，他说，“加沙地带的潜力令人难以置信。”
“历史，你也知道，就是不能让它一直重演。我们有机会做一些了不起的事情。我也不想装可爱。我不想成为一个聪明人。但是在中东的里维埃拉，这可能是真的...宏伟，”他说。
早些时候，在椭圆形办公室，当他也提出这个想法时，一名记者问搬迁的巴勒斯坦人是否有权返回。
“他们为什么想要回来?”他回应道。
“我希望我们能做一些非常好的事情，非常好的事情，让他们不想再回来，”他说。他们为什么想回来?那个地方简直是地狱。这是地球上最恶劣、最恶劣、最艰苦的地方之一，”他说。
当被问及向加沙派遣美国军队时，特朗普似乎对这种可能性持开放态度。
“就加沙而言，我们会做必要的事情。如果有必要，我们会那样做，”特朗普说。“我们将接管那个地方，我们将开发它，创造成千上万的就业机会。”
内塔尼亚胡在特朗普之后发表讲话，称赞总统为实现他们的目标提出了“新想法”，他说其中包括确保加沙不会对以色列构成威胁。
他说:“总统先生，我相信，你愿意打破常规思维，打破一次又一次失败的思维，你愿意用新的想法跳出框框思考，这将有助于我们实现所有这些目标。”。
当被问及他认为巴勒斯坦人应该从加沙搬迁是否表明他反对两国政策时，特朗普说没有。两国政策是美国几十年来的外交政策方针。
“这并不意味着两国或一国或任何其他国家。这意味着我们想拥有，我们想给人们一个生活的机会，”他说。“他们从来没有生活的机会，因为加沙地带对生活在那里的人来说是一个地狱。太可怕了。”
总统认为，他的提议将有利于整个中东地区，而不仅仅是以色列。
“我必须强调，这不是为了以色列，”他说。“这是为了中东的每一个人。阿拉伯人，穆斯林，这是每个人的。你必须从历史中吸取教训。你不能一遍又一遍地犯同样的错误。加沙现在是一个地狱，”他说。
“我已经研究过了。几个月来，我非常仔细地研究了这个问题，我从各个不同的角度看了这个问题，”他说。“这是一个非常非常危险的地方。而且只会越来越糟。我认为这个想法得到了极大的赞赏——我指的是来自最高领导层的赞赏。”
他说，他“有一种感觉”,尽管约旦国王和埃及总统反对他“清理”加沙并让他们接纳巴勒斯坦人的想法，但他们“会敞开心扉，给我们所需的土地来完成这项工作。人们可以在和谐与和平中生活，”他在特别新闻发布会结束时说道。
Trump says US will 'take over' Gaza: 'We'll own it'
In a stunning proposal, PresidentDonald Trumpsaid Tuesday that the U.S. will "take over" the Gaza Strip, "level the site" and rebuild it, after earlier saying Palestinians living there should leave.
"They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety, and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony" in other areas or countries, he said at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out," he said.
"Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area," he added. "Do a real job. Do something different."
"We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this, and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and frankly, bad luck," he said. "This can be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth. It could be one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, 12. It could be numerous sites, or it could be one large site," he said.
"But the people will be able to live in comfort and peace and will get sure -- we'll make sure something really spectacular is done. They're going to have peace. They're not going to be shot at and killed and destroyed like this civilization of -- of wonderful people has had to endure. The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative," he said.
"I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East. And everybody I have spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly," he continued. "Everybody I have spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know."
Asked who would live there, Trump responded, "the world's people," saying, "the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable."
"History, as you know, just can't let it keep repeating itself. We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. And I don't want to be cute. I don't want to be a wise guy. But the Riviera of the Middle East, this could be something that could be so ... magnificent," he said.
Earlier, in the Oval Office, when he also raised the idea, a reporter asked if Palestinians relocated would have the right to return.
"Why would they want to return?" he responded.
"It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return," he said. Why would they want to return? That place has been hell. It's been one of the meanest, one of the meanest, toughest places on earth," he said.
Asked about sending U.S. troops to Gaza, Trump appeared open to the possibility.
"As far as Gaza is concerned, we'll do what is necessary. If it's necessary, we'll do that," Trump said. "We're going to take over that place and we're going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs."
Netanyahu, delivering remarks after Trump, praised the president for his "fresh ideas" to accomplish their goals, which he said included ensuring Gaza is not a threat to Israel.
"I believe, Mr. President, that your willingness to puncture conventional thinking, thinking that has failed time and time and time again, your willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas will help us achieve all these goals," he said.
Asked if his view that Palestinians should be relocated from Gaza is a sign that he is against the two-state policy that has been the foreign policy approach of the United States for decades, Trump said no.
"It doesn't mean anything about a two-state or one state or any other state. It means that we want to have, we want to give people a chance at life," he said. "They have never had a chance at life because the Gaza Strip has been a hellhole for people living there. It's been horrible."
The president argued that his proposal would benefit the Middle East as a whole and not only Israel.
"I have to stress, this is not for Israel," he said. "This is for everybody in the Middle East. Arabs, Muslims, this is for everybody. You have to learn from history. You can't keep doing the same mistake over and over again. Gaza is a hellhole right now," he said.
"I've studied it. I've studied this very closely over a lot of months, and I've seen it from every different angle," he said. "And it's a very, very dangerous place to be. And it's only going to get worse. And I think this is an idea that's gotten tremendous -- and I'm talking about from the highest level of leadership -- gotten tremendous praise."
He said he had "a feeling" that despite Jordan's king and Egypt's president opposing his idea to "clean out" Gaza and have them take in Palestinians, they "will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done. And people can live in harmony and peace," he said, as the extraordinary news conference ended.
