Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Trump's fantastical Gaza flip

Beneath the outlandish packaging, Trump has inadvertently surfaced uncomfortable truths about Gaza the international community has been reluctant to confront.

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Elise Labott
Feb 08, 2025
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Less than a day after Donald Trump dropped his bombshell proposal for U.S. "ownership" of Gaza, the familiar dance began in Washington. White House aides scrambled to explain their boss's latest unorthodox idea while allies and adversaries alike struggled to make sense of a plan that would fundamentally resha…

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