Historians have two theories about the Holocaust, and there still isn’t a consensus on which is most correct:
1. Intentionalism: Hitler planned the Holocaust all along. When the Nazi leadership talked about deporting Jews, from the very start they were doing so as a conscious prelude to mass murder
2. Functionalism: the Holocaust wasn’t planned ahead of time, the Nazis made it up as they went along, it evolved through a bottom-up process of bureaucratic innovation. Initially, when the Nazis said “deportation to the East”, they literally meant just that; the Nazi officials who were receiving the deportees struggled to work out what to do with them, and adopted mass murder as a local bureaucratic solution to their problem. Hitler had explicitly ordered the mass murder of communists, he hadn’t done so for Jews, but they decided to apply his communist murder order to the Jewish deportees as well. The Nazi leadership soon learned of this local innovation and decided to tacitly endorse it rather than condemn it
Do people actually think that’s what is going to happen here though? I don’t think the Gazans are actually going anywhere, I think this is just an unrealistic proposal from Trump that will never be implemented, maybe it’s even some kind of negotiating strategy: Trump may think if he opens negotiations with the Arab states with some ultra-radical proposal, they’ll concede more in the end than he if hadn’t made it, even though this proposal will never be agreed. But suppose against the odds, Gaza does actually end up depopulated with its inhabitants moved to Egypt or Jordan or wherever - will the Egyptians/Jordanians/Americans/Israelis/etc end up murdering them all once they get there? That seems unlikely.
1. Intentionalism: Hitler planned the Holocaust all along. When the Nazi leadership talked about deporting Jews, from the very start they were doing so as a conscious prelude to mass murder
2. Functionalism: the Holocaust wasn’t planned ahead of time, the Nazis made it up as they went along, it evolved through a bottom-up process of bureaucratic innovation. Initially, when the Nazis said “deportation to the East”, they literally meant just that; the Nazi officials who were receiving the deportees struggled to work out what to do with them, and adopted mass murder as a local bureaucratic solution to their problem. Hitler had explicitly ordered the mass murder of communists, he hadn’t done so for Jews, but they decided to apply his communist murder order to the Jewish deportees as well. The Nazi leadership soon learned of this local innovation and decided to tacitly endorse it rather than condemn it
Do people actually think that’s what is going to happen here though? I don’t think the Gazans are actually going anywhere, I think this is just an unrealistic proposal from Trump that will never be implemented, maybe it’s even some kind of negotiating strategy: Trump may think if he opens negotiations with the Arab states with some ultra-radical proposal, they’ll concede more in the end than he if hadn’t made it, even though this proposal will never be agreed. But suppose against the odds, Gaza does actually end up depopulated with its inhabitants moved to Egypt or Jordan or wherever - will the Egyptians/Jordanians/Americans/Israelis/etc end up murdering them all once they get there? That seems unlikely.