Posted on 01/20/25
| News Source: JPost
President Donald Trump, while signing a slew of executive orders in the Oval Office on Monday night following his inaugural parade event, was asked if he was confident he could keep the ceasefire in Gaza and complete the three phases of the deal.
"I'm not confident," Trump replied. "It's not our war. It's their war. I'm not confident, but they're very weakened on the other side."
Trump said he looked at a picture of Gaza and said it's like a "massive demolition site" and that it's "really got to be rebuilt in a different way."
The President said Gaza is a "phenomenal location on the sea" with the best weather.
"You know, everything's good," he said. "Some beautiful things could be done with it, but it's very interesting, but some fantastic things could be done with Gaza.
On the future governance of Gaza, Trump said, "You certainly can't have the people that were there. Most of them are dead."
"But they didn't exactly run it well. They run viciously and badly," he said. "You can't have that."
Trump is expected to lift the Biden administration's freeze on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in his first days in office, Walla News reported on Monday, citing an interview with the Israeli envoy to Washington.
Trump is also expected to reverse sanctions the Biden administration imposed against Israeli settlers accused of violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.
However, Trump said that he thinks Saudi Arabia will end up joining the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab nations.