To the editor: Setting apart for argument’s sake the shredding of worldwide legislation represented by President Trump’s plan to take away the Gaza Strip’s remaining Palestinian inhabitants, take it over as U.S. property and switch it right into a resort, let’s carry it residence one other manner.
What if Trump proclaims a plan to take away and completely displace all surviving residents of the lately burned down residential areas of Los Angeles? What if he proposes a federal takeover of their properties to show them over to his developer pals to allow them to give “the world’s individuals” a chance to personal a bit of paradise on Earth?
How would that sound to Individuals, significantly to us Angelenos? Insane is one phrase that involves thoughts. Impeachment is one other.
Saif M. Hussain, Woodland Hills
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To the editor: Throughout Trump’s first time period, strategist Stephen Okay. Bannon famous that the media have been the president’s enemy however have been lazy and straightforward to govern. The perfect method was to create a narrative so outrageous that the media would observe it and subsequently preserve themselves busy, permitting Trump to implement his actual agenda.
Evidently, Trump paid consideration to Bannon and now makes use of this technique to nice impact.
Whereas America burns and Individuals are damage by the insurance policies and actions of the Trump administration, the president supplies the media with a shiny object to attract their consideration. The actual query right here is when will they be taught, and even will they ever be taught?
Edward Knight, Orange
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To the editor: Trump’s proposal that the US would seize management of Gaza, displace the Palestinians and switch the realm into the “riviera of the Center East” is the raving of an actual property developer, not a overseas coverage worthy of an American president.
Whether or not Trump was severe or not, the response from allies within the Center East and Europe was quick dismissal, conveying the impression that the US will not be a nation to be taken significantly.
Trump was elected on a pledge to work for common Individuals, together with bringing down the value of groceries. How would seizing Gaza try this?
To all who voted for him, that is the time to query your resolution and ask what has he executed for you, and what’s going to he do for you?
Joyce Kaufman, June Lake, Calif.
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To the editor: Starting in 1831, the US, with the complete approval of President Andrew Jackson, compelled 60,000 individuals to go away their ancestral properties within the South for land in present-day Oklahoma. Historical past calls this tragedy the Path of Tears. An estimated 16,000 Native Individuals perished on this obligatory evacuation.
Trump’s suggestion that the Palestinians be moved from Gaza to a “good” place someplace else smacks of historical past repeating itself. The motive for each upheavals is identical: Somebody desires the land. Within the 1800s, white Individuals coveted the land of the 5 “civilized” tribes. Now, a greedy government has his eye on making a resort in Gaza.
As an alternative of spending cash creating yet one more overpriced playground for the rich, how about utilizing these funds to assist the individuals of Gaza rebuild of their homeland?
Or, if the president doesn’t like that concept, what if he simply provides up Mar-a-Lago to the refugees? It’s a pleasant place, and I’m positive the Palestinians would recognize the peaceable setting.
Julie Schefcick, La Habra
