To the editor: Setting apart for argument’s sake the shredding of worldwide legislation represented by President Trump’s plan to remove the Gaza Strip’s remaining Palestinian population, take it over as U.S. property and switch it right into a resort, let’s deliver it dwelling one other approach.
What if Trump declares 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 buddies to allow them to give “the world’s individuals” a chance to personal a chunk 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 Ok. Bannon famous that the media have been the president’s enemy however have been lazy and simple to control. One of the best strategy was to create a narrative so outrageous that the media would comply with it and subsequently maintain 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 offers the media with a shiny object to attract their consideration. The true query right here is when will they study, and even will they ever study?
Edward Knight, Orange
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To the editor: Trump’s proposal that america 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 critical or not, the response from allies within the Center East and Europe was fast dismissal, conveying the impression that america just isn’t 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 do this?
To all who voted for him, that is the time to query your determination and ask what has he completed 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, america, with the total approval of President Andrew Jackson, pressured 60,000 individuals to depart 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 necessary 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 a substitute 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 presents 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
