The insanity gripping the Trump administration and its approach to the Gaza genocide grows by the day. This week. we have a proposal to expel 1-million Gazans and ship them off to Libya. Earlier Israeli proposals suggested Somaliland, Somalia or Sudan. All this to be paid for not by Israel, which created the disaster, but by the Gulf oil states. Neither the African countries nor any of the Gulf monarchies reacted with any enthusiasm. In fact, they either claimed not to know anything about the plan, or to be opposed to it outright.
In this case, there isn’t even a Libyan government to approach. There are two warlords fighting a civil war. Even they didn’t respond when asked about their views on the plan.
All of this is a fraud. There is no credible plan here. This is a typical bit of obfuscation to conceal Trump’s unwillingness to actually do anything to ease the Gaza crisis. He knows (or at least someone in the administration knows) Israel has killed 300 unarmed defenseless Palestinians in the past 48 hours, scores of them children. He knows a new Israeli “offensive” will commence shortly, raising the death toll to further heights. His actual thinking: let’s relieve some of the inevitable pressure that will come from the anticipated slaughter, by offering the world a “humanitarian solution.” It’s a total sham.
Nor has he given up on his hare-brained scheme to “take” Gaza and make it some sort of US protectorate and turn it into the Mediterranean Riviera. His conception is to remove (i.e expel) the Palestinians there and then turn it into what he calls a “freedom zone“:
“Gaza has been a territory of death and destruction for many years,” Trump said. “I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good — make it a freedom zone. Let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone.”
Doesn’t the word freedom sound so wholesome. But what does it mean? Nothing. Just empty words.
It’s typical of Trump to think of “shithole” countries as suitable dumping grounds for disposable people. Get rid of the people (in Gaza) and the problem disappears (for Israel). Let it be someone else’s. And the Libyans (or Rwandans or Sudanese) are too weak or corrupt to say No.
Over half of the NBC News article lists the myriad reasons the idea is foolhardy (though in characteristically “objective” terms). Among them:
Libya has been plagued by instability and warring political factions throughout the nearly 14 years since a civil war broke out in the country and its longtime dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, was toppled. Libya is struggling to care for its current population as two rival governments, one in the west led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and one in the east led by Khalifa Haftar, are actively and violently fighting for control. The State Department currently advises Americans not to travel to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded landmines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict.”
BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, according to a report by NBC News, citing five sources with knowledge of the effort, including two people they said with direct knowledge,… pic.twitter.com/c588hGYAk2
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) May 16, 2025
Today the Finnish State media (YLE) had a story of how Israel managed to get this year the second place in Eurovision song contest, which was a surprise to all (link to yle.fi). In the voting rules was that each voter can vote at most 20 times (each vote did cost in Finland 1.5 euros). Israel had a organized a huge media campaign among Israel supporters to use that 20 vote maximum in voting 20 times Israeli song. The Israeli singer in the contest, Yuval Raphael, encouraged in the campaign in Finnish to vote for Israel. The Israeli state had financed the media campaign this year, like it did also in 2024 (link to yle.fi).
Naturally it is EBU’s fault to make such idiotic voting rules to enrich telephone companies. With a high certainty Israeli ambassador and the local Jewish leaders have condemned to the media bosses and Finnish politicians such anti-Semitic news to be given to us Finns.
Aluf Benn message “…now there are rays of hope”
I don’t understand … quite prophetic your article 16 years ago this week ☹
In Sept. 2012 Obama stopped the attack on Iran.
Eight years of failures in the Middle East under the Obama-Biden [I’m a Zionist] administration witnessed by HRC and John Kerry … such a great disappointment after his protest of the Vietnam War before U.S. Congress. Cost him the 2004 Presidential Election … warmongers triumph in America.
Now then, this is not insane, nor is it unfeasible.
This is how the Ottoman Turks carried out the Armenian Genocide; they sent the Armenians into the Syrian Desert, or as one Turk put it, ‘to nowhere.’
Somalia, the South Sudan, Libya? Obviously, great minds think alike.
Dutch “Left” Will Not Be Silenced!
Protest march of nearly one hundred thousand participate in a demonstration against the Dutch (Geert Wilders) lack of action to stop war crimes in Gaza. The end destination will be the Peace Palace, home of the United Nations’ World Court ICJ. I participated recently @Malieveld with a still surprising 5,000 demonstrators … but today … the LARGEST protest in 20 years.
More than 100,000 protesters march against war violence in Gaza today
link to pzc.nl
I wasn’t aware there were that number of humanists left in the old country. 😊
’We’re Destroying Gaza’: Netanyahu, Smotrich announced yesterday … caught Western allies by ’surprise’ … in an unruly House of Commons shouts heard of ’genocide’ as FM Lammy had no answers to supply food and aid to avert thousands of deaths in Gaza. R2P only in case of regime change by NATO … Kosovo-Iraq-Libya-Syria.
EU action blocked by Germany 🇩🇪 – Hungary 🇭🇺 – Greece 🇬🇷 and others.
So the 7 or so NeoConned initiated civil unrest led to wars and millions of refugees … the EU thanking countries like Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Türkiye, Rwanda, and recently Albania to either halt the refugee flow or keep them in famine encampments. The dark side of the Mediterranean “Riviera” similar to the Rio Grande project of Trump.
Successive Tory leaders failed in the refugee transport to Rwanda … recently Labour PM Starmer got a bloody nose in Albania of all places …
PM proposes to send failed asylum seekers to ’return hubs’ on state visit to Albania. Would expedite membership of the EU Meloni concurred.
Initiation rites to become member of the club … during the illegal Iraq War the expectation was to accept abductees and join the fight to expedite NATO membership. Great success.