On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump shocked the world with a proposal that was, even by his standards, totally out of the blue: that all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza so that the US could take it over as a territory.

There was instant debate about whether Americans should take Trump at his word, and on Wednesday, many in his orbit tried to soften his proclamation, but the fact remains that Trump suggested — again — that the US unilaterally take over a foreign territory without any regard to what the people currently living there think.

First, it was Greenland that Trump said the US should seize. Then the Panama Canal, Canada, and now Gaza — Trump’s territorial wishlist seems to be growing by the day.

Many observers have seen this as a call back to

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