Now Donald Trump wants to own the Gaza Strip.The President proposed on Tuesday that the U.S. should “own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing 2 million Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

Although the president had been talking about the idea for weeks, there had been no meetings on the subject, and senior members of his government were taken by surprise.

The White House on Wednesday defended President Trump’s proposal for the United States to take control of the Gaza Strip amid blowback from Arab leaders and some Republicans. Press secretary