Too good to be true?
Trump Ally: Six Countries Have Agreed to Take in Thousands of Gazans
As tensions simmer, Trump’s Gaza gambit, fact or fantasy, keeps the world guessing.
Ariel Sandel, head of Donald Trump’s election campaign in Israel, dropped a bombshell on Galey Israel today, asserting that six nations have signed on to absorb hundreds of thousands of Gazans under a U.S. immigration plan advancing at breakneck speed. Sandel, tight-lipped about the identities of the countries, though he claims to know three, hails it as Trump’s visionary push, citing a BBC journalist’s quip: “We call his plans delusional, yet he delivers.”
The claim ties into Trump’s February 4, 2025, White House meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, where he floated turning Gaza into a tourist hub post-U.S. takeover, suggesting Egypt and Jordan as potential hosts. Both nations have rebuffed the idea, wary of domestic backlash and historical tensions. Since March 2025, Israel has facilitated about 1,000 voluntary Gazan exits to third countries, though no direct link to Trump’s scheme is confirmed.
Critics, including Arab leaders and the UN, decry it as potential ethnic cleansing, flouting the Geneva Conventions. With Gaza’s population at 2 million, the plan’s scope remains unverified, U.S. and international bodies offer no corroboration.