Donald Trump is suggesting a different kind of a two-state solution, by essentially making Gaza the 51st US state, Palestinian academic and analyst tells Al Arabiya News. #Trump #Netanyahu #US
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00:00Did we hear President Trump last night essentially torpedoing any hopes of a two-state solution?
00:06No, I think he was talking about a different two-state solution, Israel and the 51st state
00:11of the United States. Because when he says that we, America, will own Gaza, what does
00:17that mean? If you take it to the final extent, it will become the 51st state. The Israeli
00:24leadership wants the whole of Palestine, historic Palestine, but he has now pitched for, as
00:31he has done with Greenland, to take Gaza into American ownership. So I think it's that.
00:38But being serious, the two-state solution has been dead for many years because Israel
00:43has killed it through its settlements, through its oppression of the Palestinian people,
00:49the separation and refusal to allow any connection between Gaza and the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
00:57And rather than the two-state solution being killed, it is this desire to kill the Palestinian
01:04people's right to self-determination. It is saying, all of this talk that the war on Gaza
01:10is saying to the Palestinians, you do not matter.