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Are We Really About to Empty Gaza of Palestinians?, With Tony Badran
Tablet’s news editor talks to Liel about President Trump’s latest proposal and its meaning
February 5, 2025
Welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump has repeatedly made a bombshell proposal: Empty Gaza of its 1.8 million Palestinian residents, resettling them elsewhere in the Arab world, and rebuilding the devastated strip. Tony Badran, Tablet Magazine’s news editor, joins Liel to explain why Trump’s plan is deeply generous, why so many of Washington’s self-proclaimed best and brightest have gotten the Middle East wrong for so long, and about why the Abraham Accords are far from the panacea many still believe them to be.
Rootless
Are We Really About to Empty Gaza of Palestinians?, With Tony Badran
Tablet’s news editor talks to Liel about President Trump’s latest proposal and its meaning
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