Let Donald J. Trump cook.
On Tuesday night, President Trump gave an absolutely stunning, ground-breaking, timeline-changing press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he announced his plan for the Gaza Strip. He made the announcement that the United States would take over the Gaza Strip.
And people promptly went insane.
First, all of the conventional wisdom, all of the State Department-approved decades-long conventional wisdom, has led to full-scale disaster in the Middle East. It has led to an intractable, multi-decade problem of a radicalized Palestinian population that supports terrorism rather than any regime that would actually allow for peace, prosperity, and the building of a livable life.
Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people. Today, by polling data, the Palestinian people still support Hamas after the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip in…
