MAJORITY OF ISRAELIS BACK TRUMP’S PLAN TO RELOCATE GAZA’S POPULATION: POLL

Tue 04 February 2025:

Approximately seven out of ten Israelis support the idea that “Arabs from Gaza should relocate to another country,” according to a poll conducted by the Jewish People Policy Institute.

According to the poll, 43 percent of all Israelis believe former US President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer Palestinians in Gaza elsewhere is “practical” and should be pursued. Among Jewish Israelis, this view is held by a narrow majority of 52 percent.

An additional 30 percent of Jewish Israelis described the plan as “not practical, but desirable”.

Meanwhile, Arab Israelis largely oppose the idea. More than half (54 percent) of Arab respondents described the plan as “immoral,” compared to just 3 percent of Jewish Israelis. Overall, 13 percent of all Israelis consider the proposal immoral.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Washington on Sunday to become the first foreign leader to visit US President Donald Trump since his return to the White House.

The trip comes as phase 1 of the ceasefire rolls out in Gaza, with weekly prisoner swaps that by 1 March should see 33 Israeli captives released from Gaza in return for just under 2,000 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons, many of whom have never been charged.

On Monday afternoon the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration was “readying” a $1bn arms sale to Israel that would include bombs and other military hardware like armoured bulldozers. The administration has asked congressional leaders to approve the transfers.

In the two weeks he’s been in office, Trump has already lifted the suspension of 2,000-pound “bunker-busting” bombs to Israel, and he has also removed the sanctions the Biden administration placed on some extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank that have torched Palestinian homes.

Observers have been concerned by Trump’s insistence on Egypt and Jordan taking in Palestinians and his proposal to “clean out” Gaza. An invitation to Jordan’s King Abdullah II to visit the White House later this month has many speculating that Trump will further pressure the monarch to take in Palestinians.

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