Much of the 6 am hour of Wednesday’s edition of CNN This Morning was devoted to criticism and mockery of President Trump’s suggestion that the US could take ownership of Gaza, converting the area into the Riviera of the Middle East, while relocating its population.
But to her credit, host Kasie Hunt did allot the hour’s final 10 minutes to a discussion with Dan Senor, an expert on Israeli affairs and someone, as Hunt described, who often speaks with the principals involved in negotiations.
Rather than expressing unqualified support for Trump’s proposal, Senor explicated it in these terms:
The Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the West Bank, and most notably from Gaza, from which Israel unilaterally withdrew in 2005, has never worked. Invariably, the areas have been used to commit violence against Israel, culminating in the massacre of October 7th,…
