Donald Trump wants America to take over Gaza and for all Palestinians to leave so it can be turned into a “Riviera of the Middle East.” 

The idea, unleashed in a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister at the White House, is a complete upending of decades of Middle Eastern policy that could involve American troops on the ground. 

Today, Hussein Ibish from the Arab Gulf States Institute on the implications of Trump’s words and what might come next.  

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Hussein Ibish, senior scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington D.C.