Aspirations:
At first sight, Trump’s outlandish idea appears to offer the far right the end goal of controlling Gaza.

Mitchell Barak, an Israeli pollster and former political aide to senior Israeli figures, including Netanyahu, told Al Jazeera:
1. “Trump went much further than anyone expected,”
2. “In the short term, what Trump has delivered is better than what Smotrich and Ben-Gvir could have hoped for.”

Ben-Gvir quickly said the possibility of ethnically cleansing Gaza might be enough to persuade him to forget past grievances and return to the government.

He told Galey Israel Radio on Wednesday:
1. “We have a huge opportunity and we must not miss it,”
2. “There were those who worked on it in Israel long before and earned nicknames like ‘messianic and delusional’.”

Nachala claimed to be readying itself to seize Gaza as soon as its people, under the terms set out by Trump, were ethnically cleansed.

However, Barak pointed out:
1. “They’re [Israel’s far right] not going to decide how this thing will end;
2. Trump will, and part of his plan is to find a solution for Palestinians.
3. That could still involve some kind of two-state solution,” referring to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Barak warned:
“If Trump has the power to depopulate Gaza, he also has the power to relocate Israelis from the settlements,”