During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump offered an interesting stream of consciousness. Mr. Trump mused about relocating Gaza inhabitants to other Arab nations.
He also suggested that America could buy Gaza and rebuild it into a tourist destination.
Perpetually enraged leftists and Islamists trotted out tired tropes about ethnic cleansing. The real truth is that with some modifications, the meat of Trump's plan is sensible and feasible.
The first step is to spell out the truth in cold unequivocal language. There is no such thing as a "Palestinian."
The people in what Arabs refer to as Gaza and the West Bank are displaced Egyptians and Jordanians, respectively. Relocating people to their true indigenous lands is justifiable if done humanely.
The term "relocation" evokes negative imagery of the Trail of Tears. Yet people relocate all the time.
New Yorkers in droves are escaping their misery by relocating to Florida. The difference between the great Jewish migration to the Sunshine State and the Trail of Tears is one of choice.
Involuntary relocation can be cruel. Voluntary relocation can be glorious.
Consciously uncoupling Arabs from Gaza could work if relocation were voluntary. Rather than browbeat them, just bribe the Arab divorcees with palimony.
Give them the Garden of Eden.
Give them homes worth three times what their Gaza homes were worth. Give them jobs paying triple their Gaza salaries.
Use the same marketing strategy that Apple uses to sell millions of iPhones.
The blessed privileged few get their new iPhones on day one. Everyone else agonizes and waits.
Make initial relocation available to only a select few lucky winners while the others beg to relocate.
Faced with major life changes such as moving, a fraction of people will immediately leave, figuring they have nothing to lose. Another fraction of people will refuse to leave, willing to fight to the death to maintain their home.
Most people fall in the middle.
They want a better life and would consider leaving but are scared. Once they confirm from others that the grass truly is greener elsewhere, they go.
Once the initial wave of Arabs truly find paradise in Egypt and Jordan, they will use their expensive iPhones to brag to everyone they know back in Gaza how happy they are. One year after the closed relocation window opens, the massive wave of scared but hopeful Gaza Arabs can flood the new promised land.
This leaves only the few remaining zealots willing to fight to the death. Force can handle them.
Naysayers will dismiss this approach as impossible. After all, Egypt and Jordan both said that they will refuse to take in their hated Gaza and West Bank brothers.
These proclamations are as meaningless and impotent as a vegan protest march at a Texas barbecue.
Egypt and Jordan will absolutely absorb these people. Just bribe them.
Offer to triple their foreign aid budgets. That is the carrot.
If they refuse, the stick is cutting off their foreign aid entirely. Arab governments claim to dislike American culture, but they sure do love American dollars.
Ensure the foreign aid is used to build world-class cities. These twin cities in Egypt and Jordan can even be named Palestine.
Naturally, American corporations will earn building contracts.
Once Egypt and Jordan accept the increased foreign aid, construction can immediately begin. Once the Gaza and West Bank Arabs reach paradise on Earth, they will no longer need to think about paradise with 72 virgins.
Happy people do not become suicide bombers.
When the Arabs are gone from Judea and Samaria, the Jews can move back in.
Rather than buy the land, Trump can turn a blind eye as Israel's version of "Drill, baby, drill" becomes "Build, Bibi, build." Israel can express gratitude to Trump by naming a city, a golf course, or first-born sons after him.
Eric Golub is a comedian, author and retired stockbrokerage and oil professional living in Los Angeles. His interests include football, politics, Judaism, the stock market, and Angela Lansbury's "Murder, She Wrote." He has written for the Jewish Journal, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Read more of Eric Golub's reports — here.
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