Boris Johnson proposed to accept Palestinians from Gaza in Mar-a-Lago!

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has criticized US President Donald Trump’s proposal to deport Palestinians from Gaza and resettle them in other countries, describing the idea as neither realistic nor legal.

Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Johnson used Trump’s luxury Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as an example of resettling Palestinians, saying it was a great place to house millions of people.

“I was giving a speech in Florida the other day, and I looked out over Mar-a-Lago and thought… This is a great place if you want to resettle millions of people from the Middle East, it’s really beautiful,” Johnson said.

But he then pointed out that Mar-a-Lago is owned by someone, just like Gaza, saying, “That’s not going to happen because someone else owns it… Gaza is owned and legally inhabited by people who have a right to be there”.

Johnson, who attended Trump’s inauguration last month, said Trump’s Gaza plan could be an attempt to make people reconsider the potential of the Palestinian territory, which has been subjected to intense Israeli bombardment for 15 months since October 7, 2023.

The ongoing Israeli bombardment, now halted by a ceasefire, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and destroyed two-thirds of Gaza’s infrastructure.

“It’s not my job to analyze what the president says, but I think he’s inviting everyone to say, ‘Look, this place has absolutely great potential… It’s in a great location,” Johnson said.

Trump appeared determined on Tuesday to continue with his plan to seize Gaza and turn it into what he described as the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

“We’ll take it, we will keep it, and we will develop it,” he said in his Oval Office, sitting next to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, who has flatly rejected Trump’s proposal, while the Jordanian monarch stressed that his opposition, and that of the entire Arab world, to Trump’s plan is steadfast.