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The White House sought to alleviate the fear of long -term American military intervention in Gaza, insisting that the Donald Trump Washington plan assumes that control over the enclave does not necessarily mean putting “boots on the ground”.
Karolina Leavitt printing secretary said, although the president gave a “historic proposal for the United States Gauze“, He did not” devote “to the sending of American troops” just “.
“It made it very clear to the president that the United States must be involved in this effort to renovate,” she said on Wednesday. “That doesn’t mean boots on Earth in Gaza. This does not mean that US taxpayers will finance this effort.”
Leavit’s comments come the day after Trump caused restlessness in the USA worldwide the world with the proposal that they need now “download control“Palestinian enclaves and that his entire 2.2 million should be moved.
The plan also provoked the hostile reaction of many in the president’s own party, and some Republicans say that it ran out of his “First America” agenda.
“I thought we voted for America first,” said Rand Paul, a Republican Senator from Kentucky. “We have no job that we are thinking about another occupation for the ruin of our treasure and the shedding of the blood of our soldiers.”
Josh Hawley, a Republican Senator from Missouri, repeated his concern. “I don’t know that I think this is the best use of the United States resources to spend a bunch of money in Gaza,” he told the Jewish insider.
Some party members considered Trump’s proposal to contrary to his long criticism of American intervention in “endless” foreign wars.
Lindsey Graham, a Republican South Carolina senator, described the plan as “problematic”. “I don’t think most of the South Caroliners probably would probably be excited to send Americans to take over Gaza,” he said.
State Secretary Marco Rubio tried to calm the jerks for Trump’s proposal, saying that it was not “intended for a hostile move” but as a “offer for renovation”.
“What he very generously offers is the possibility of the United States to enter and help to remove waste, to help remove ammunition, to help renovate, renovate homes and companies and things of this nature, so that people can go back,” he said.
Other Republicans gathered behind the president. Mike Johnson, a Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, admitted that the announcement was “a surprise to many,” but insisted that he “cheered him up the world around the world.”
Johnson said, “He takes a brave, decisive action to try to secure the peace of that region. This is certainly a brave move. Far bolder than what has been done earlier before.”
In the meantime, Democrats have accused Trump of supporting the “ethnic cleansing” in the enclave and accusing the president of leaving the needs of American voters of sending funds in the far region.
“He just said that US politics would be forcibly expelled by 2 mn Palestinians from the Gaza belt,” said Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic Senator of Maryland. “It’s ethnic cleansing with another name.”
The Democratic Congress Woman of Rashida Tlahida said: “It is perfectly well cut off by working Americans from federal funds, while the financing of the Israeli government is still flowing.”