Time again for the old professor to drop some history on my readers….today’s talk centers around the 1830s and what was to be known as the Trail of Tears…..for those that have no idea….
Guided by policies favored by President Andrew Jackson, who led the country from 1828 to 1837, the Trail of Tears (1837 to 1839) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. Land grabs threatened tribes throughout the South and Southeast in the early 1800s. Across the United States, the Federal Government consolidated and relocated tribes to reservations forcing them to surrender their lands in pieces by negotiating one treaty after another with the tribes. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, the impetus for the Trail of Tears, targeted particularly the Five Civilized Tribes in the Southeast. As authorized by the Indian Removal Act, the Federal Government negotiated treaties aimed at clearing Indian-occupied land for white settlers. The Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole were among the resettled tribes.
(nps.gov)
Then after all the tribes were gone the US sod the stolen land to white settlers….
I bring up this painful but mostly forgotten piece of American History because one of Trump’s idiotic proposals….his idea smacks of Jackson’s policies….
President Trump on Thursday insisted Jordan and Egypt will take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza despite fierce objections from the two Arab nations.
Trump’s recent suggestion to “clean out” Gaza of its Palestinian population and send them to Jordan and Egypt raised fears that the US may support the ethnic cleansing of the territory, but his idea was met with quick rejection from Amman and Cairo and the wider Arab world.
When asked on Thursday about the Egyptian and Jordanian response to his proposal, Trump said, “They will do it. They will do it. They’re gonna do it, okay? We do a lot for them, and they’re gonna do it.”
Trump’s calls to remove Palestinians from Gaza were welcomed by the more hardline elements of the Israeli government who are openly in favor of ethnic cleansing and the establishment of Jewish settlements, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said he’s working to make Trump’s vision a reality.
Smotrich and others frame their desire for ethnic cleansing as “voluntary migration,” but the Israeli military campaign has left most of Gaza uninhabitable. Some media reports have said the Trump administration is discussing the idea of “temporarily” relocating Gaza residents during reconstruction, but many would likely be hesitant to leave over fears Israel wouldn’t let them back.
So is this yet another hair brain scheme to help Israel expand its burgeoning empire?
While writing this post more on this situation appears….
Trump said wants the U.S. to empty the Gaza strip of its nearly two million inhabitants, and develop it like a property owner. In fact he said he wanted the U.S. to “own it” and did not rule out sending our troops to get the job done. Here’s the video.
President Trump doubled down on his remarks about “cleaning out” Palestinians from Gaza ahead of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. Trump told reporters at the White House that he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians, the New York Times reports. “They have no alternative right now” but to leave Gaza, Trump said, adding that the resettlement could be permanent. “It is a big pile of rubble right now,” Trump said of Gaza. “I don’t know how they could want to stay. It’s a demolition site. It’s a pure demolition site.”
CNN reports that Trump asked, “Why would they want to return?” and ignored a reporter who cried out, “Because it’s their home.” “I think we need another location,” Trump said, per the AP. “I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.” Asked if he was still committed to his 2020 plan that called for a Palestinian state, Trump said, “Well, a lot of plans change with time.”
Last month, the leaders of Egypt and Jordan “flatly rejected” Trump’s call for them to take in more Palestinians, the AP notes. After Trump’s latest remarks, the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the United Nations said world leaders should respect people’s desire to remain in Gaza. “Our homeland is our homeland, if part of it is destroyed, the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people selected the choice to return to it,” Riyad Mansour said, per the Times of Israel. “And I think that leaders and people should respect the wishes of the Palestinian people.”
And then the ‘stable genius’ from Wharton made is biggest POS….
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we’ll do a job with it too,” Trump said at a news conference with Netanyahu. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.” The BBC reports that the remarks “elicited several gasps from reporters.”
Trump pledged to “create an economic development that will supply an unlimited number of jobs and housing for the people of the area,” Politico reports. Asked about the US controlling Gaza for an extended period, Trump said, “I do see a long-term ownership position,” per the AP. “Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land,” he added. He said the US could send troops to the area if necessary. Trump said a redeveloped Gaza could look like the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Last year, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, said, “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable.”
Trump said “Palestinians, mostly” would live in the redeveloped Gaza, but it would be “an international, unbelievable place” that would attract “the world’s people,” the AP reports. Netanyahu praised the idea as “something that can change history” and said Trump is
“the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.” The New York Times reports that pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the White House, chanting “Donald Trump belongs in jail” and “Palestine is not for sale.”
Seriously?
The last time US troops got involved in this area it did not end well….just ask Reagan….oh wait you cannot for he is dead.
No matter how you try to cut it it is still the same thing that Jackson did….the theft of land.
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“lego ergo scribo”
Trail of Tears: Jackson forever condemned for this horror but actually he saved the people of the tribes. War of 1812 over and America moving to SW. Steam engine resulted in river boats and trains. Thousands of whites coming west for mining, agriculture, industry, trade domestic and foreigh (port of New Orleans) city building and the whole explosion of America’s nationhood. Native Americans were in the way. Jackson’s move probably saved them from the bloodbath that would have surley come without the removal. Now, this is not to excuse the removal or minimize the suffering but to share an aspect of Trail of Tears never really considered.
Seriously you are trying to put lipstick on that pig? I would bet the a Choctaw would not agree with synopsis. chuq
Why did I know this reply was exactly what my comment would provoke and it misses the point ? Not trying to excuse anything. Just that few people can imagine what westward expansion would create horrors in SE America for native Americans which was avoided. Can you imagine what would have happened to Native Americans if they were not removed from the white population explosion of their lands by Jackson ? Perhaps more horrible than Far West suffering of later years ? Certainly a holocaust avoided by Jackson’s tragedy. Don’t you read that I am not excusing or minimizing the cruelty.?
I know what you were saying I just do not agree that it saved them….they were evicted from their homes and thousands on the forced march…..I do not see that as saving. But I get your point but this more of a comparison than an in-depth history lesson. chuq
OK
Off topic, but perhaps more important: Elon Musk and the crew of young ‘hotshots’, having been given full administrative access to the U.S. Treasury’s disbursement program that controls payouts to citizens (think SS, Medicare,and all the other citizen payments), are now reprogramming the software base that runs the disbursements. Some punk college dropout, 25 years old, is rewriting the software and pumping it into the system with no oversight and no quality testing and no safety testing. Here’s the scenario I see: The code they’re writing will use AI to search the internet for comments criticizing Trump and his crew of tyranny-wanna-bes. When a dissenter’s remarks are found, the Treasury software will then automatically cut off all payments to that person and his supporters – SS, Medicare, family aid, health aid, all of it – for disloyalty to the sick bastard the Republican voters put into the Oval Office. That could be a pretty effective way to shut people up, to exert control over the entire populace. Never mind Gaza and the Panama Canal and Greenland. The real criminal work is being done here, in Washington, and the fucking press and the dumbass Democrats need to start fighting back and fighting hard – no more of this playing fair and wringing hands and bemoaning their fate. They need to get their heads out of their asses and start fighting like their lives depend on it. Because from what I see, their lives, and mine, do depend on getting rid of the Trump crowd – permanently.
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I think it maybe too late for the Dems….they have let the GOP have a free ride for decades and now they want to do something about it. I fear they are blowing smoke with their most recent rhetoric. chuq
The Indigenous in America lost the wars – let them get over it. The administration will do what the administration wants and there is nothing and nobody to keep them from doing it — so why bother to worry about it?
Native Americans have never given up and I will be goddamn if I will either….you may do what you like but if you give up then that is on you. chuq
We will not give up– we will be forced to give up once we are all rounded up and dealt with……
I am an American I still have the right to oppose when it is needed….that will not change for me chuq
Rights will soon be a thing of the past.
Probably but we still need to fight for them. chuq
I hope Trump supporters look at where prices are going, notice how their government programs and benefits are under attack, and ask why pouring resources, time and money into the Middle East is the right focus for our country right now…the worm is turning very quickly – I hope they are prepared for it
I see that they are walking back is thoughtless comment. chuq
Yes, it’s a “chaos” policy: throw everything out there, cause chaos and confusion, then clean it up…some say it’s a simple “misdirection” technique to keep the spotlight off of the most nefarious things being done at the same time…appreciate how you are covering this stuff so well
Thank you John….I have always thought it was misdirection and tried and true Trump technique. chuq
News today he is still saying his original statement so Rubio is either talking out his butt or running interference for Trump….I suspect the later. chuq
Gaza has huge oil and natural gas reserves that have never been developed and exploited. That’s what Trump and Musk are after. https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves
Best wishes, Pete.
Yep and to help Israel anyway they can. chuq