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The White House tried to claim the fears of a lengthy US military intervention in Gaza, and insisted that Donald Trump’s plan for Washington did not necessarily mean to put “boots on the ground”.
The press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the president had a “historical proposal for the United States Gaza“He had” not committed “to send us” just “.
“It became very clear to the President that the United States must be involved in this re -bundle effort,” she said on Wednesday. “That means no boots on the floor in the Gaza. It does not mean that American taxpayers will finance these efforts. “
Leavitt’s comments come to Trump a day Caused turmoil in the USA and all over the world with a proposal that the United States should “Take over”The Palestinian enclave and that its entire population should be resettled by 2.2 million.
The plan also provoked an enemy reaction of many in the president’s own party, with some Republicans said that he was bended from his “America First” agenda.
“I thought we first voted for America,” said Randa Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky. “We have no business activities to consider another profession in order to make our treasure fail and shed our soldiers’ blood.”
Josh Hawley, a Republican senator from Missouri, repeated his concerns. “I don’t know that I think it is the best use of the United States resources to spend a few money in Gaza,” he told the Jewish insider.
Some party members saw Trump’s proposal as a contradiction of his many years of criticism of the US intervention in “endless” foreign wars.
Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, described the plan as “problematic”. “I think most South Caroliners would probably not look forward to sending Americans to take over Gaza,” he said.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio tried to calm Jitter about Trump’s proposal, and said that it was “not meant as an enemy step”, but as a “offer for reconstruction”.
“What he offers very generously is the ability of the United States to help with the removal of ruins to help with the removal of ammunition to help with the reconstruction of the reconstruction of houses and companies and things of this kind, so that people are again can go in the way. “, He said.
Other Republicans gathered behind the president. Mike Johnson, Republican spokesman for the House of Representatives, admitted that the announcement was welcomed “surprised by many”, but insisted that it was “cheered on by people around the world”.
Johnson said: “He took brave, crucial measures to try to ensure the peace of this region. It is certainly a brave step. Much more braver than what was previously done. “
The Democrats meanwhile accused Trump of supporting “ethnic cleansing” in the enclave, and accused the president of giving the needs of American voters to send money to a distant region.
“He only said that it will be the US policy to violently push 2 million Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip,” said Chris van Hollen, a democratic senator from Maryland. “This is ethnic cleaning by another name.”
The Democratic Congressman Rashida Tlaib said: “It is perfectly good for him to cut off the working Americans from federal funds, while the funding of the Israeli government continues to flow.”
