Lethal fantasies of driving people from their land haunt the Middle East. Trump is fuelling them
- Posted on February 7, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Lethal fantasies of driving people from their land haunt the Middle East. Trump is fuelling them
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Rarely has a US president proposed an idea more repugnant than this Gaza plan, with its appeal to old enmities, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland