Speaking of the two Israeli neighbors, Aaron David Miller, a former US Middle East peace negotiator, said on CNN: “It’s not a real estate deal for them, it’s not even a humanitarian issue for them. It’s an existential issue.”

By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick, Jeff Mason and John Irish WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's proposal for the U.S. to take over war-ruined Gaza and create a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere has shattered U.

Trump has now gone much, much further, declaring this week that the United States would “take over” Gaza, drive some 2 million Palestinians from their home there, potentially use U.S. troops to crush extremists bunkered amid the explosives-strewn ruins and then …