Daily Wire host: “The strategic goal in Gaza is now and has always been ethnic cleansing”
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From the February 5, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): OK. So the principle Trump's articulating at the end is the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting different results.
So people who were saying that Trump's proposals here — maybe his proposals are sincere, maybe they're just a negotiating tactic, maybe he's exaggerating, maybe it's some combination. But they're saying his proposals are insane. But Trump's response to that, his rejoinder is, no, you know what's insane? Just trying the same thing over and over and over again that has led to the exact same results for 77 years.
But what's the upshot of all of this? You heard the question, I think, from Peter Doocy — will the Palestinians be permitted to return to their homes, which don't exist anymore? But will they be permitted to return, at least in principle? And Trump says no. And there, Netanyahu does not look surprised. That looks like something they've been discussing. Trump says no. They're not gonna return. Egypt and Jordan are going to take them, which has been a big component of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations for many decades now. He says they're gonna stay in Egypt or they're gonna stay in Jordan. We're gonna find that — we're gonna make nice places for them, big, beautiful condominiums. It's gonna be great. Check out the window treatments. It's gonna be fabulous. But, no, they're not going to return.
Which you know how much I hate to say I told you so? But on this issue, I so totally told you so. For years now — and I feel bad because it's an unpleasant situation. But I feel totally, totally vindicated. The strategic goal in Gaza is now and has always been ethnic cleansing. We'll get to what that means in just a moment because a lot of people don't understand what that means.