Trump dares world stuck in failure with bold Gaza plan

In his “Beyond Good and Evil,” Friedrich Nietzsche proposes what he calls a “rule as a riddle.” It goes like this: “If the bond shan’t burst, bite upon it first.” If you can’t fix a problem with conventional means, go unconventional.If something is insoluble, do something radical.It’s the same idea as the Gordian Knot — no one could untie it, so Heracles simply sliced it open.

What you don’t get, in the end, is a single piece of rope that remains intact.But the knot no longer exists.So it is with what Donald Trump did at the most dramatic presidential press conference of my adult lifetime by announcing his plan for Gaza.

As my sister Ruthie Blum put it on X, “To all those who’ve been screaming for 16 months about the ‘day after’: TAKE THAT!”You want a way forward for the area that has been decimated as a result of the terrorist war launched against an unsuspecting Israel on Oct.7, 2023 — a war Israel neither sought nor planned for nor expected to have to fight?You want to cry bitter tears over the uninhabitability of Gaza as a result of the consequences of the war that is entirely the moral, logistical and geopolitical responsibility of the terrorist organization Hamas and its sponsor in Iran?Trump’s new fantasyDry your tears, says Donald Trump.

Here’s the plan.Gazans will have to go elsewhere for a while.Gaza will be cleared.

It’s a “demolition site.” Unexploded ordinance will have to be dealt with.Many existing structures will have to be torn down.

It’s an area the size of Chicago, so it’s quite the job.Following the demo will come the rebuilding.All of this, Trump says, will be paid for by the very wealthy countries in the region, which will also be responsible for housing the displaced Gazans in one, two, four, seven, maybe even twelve comfortable sites.

Gaza will be turned into the Riviera of the Middle East.At that point, the people once resident in Gaza can return ..

.if they want to.

Otherwise it will b...