History’s Case for Trump’s Gaza Plan - with Andrew Roberts

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Feb 22, 2025

Andrew Roberts, a British historian and member of the House of Lords, dives into Trump’s contentious Gaza plan and its historical precedents. He discusses the emotional toll of hostage releases from Gaza and parallels with past conflicts like the breakup of Yugoslavia. Roberts also highlights the complexities of the Gaza situation, including the geopolitical reactions and challenges of resettling Palestinians in neighboring states. Through these discussions, he urges a reconsideration of traditional approaches to conflict by learning from history.

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INSIGHT

Palestinian Sovereignty

President Trump suggests Palestinian sovereignty is void after initiating war.
He asserts their right to override Gaza's self-determination and implement population transfers.

ANECDOTE

Serbian Precedent

Serbs lost control after NATO intervention in Bosnia.
They experienced population transfers following the Dayton Accords, similar to potential Gaza scenarios.

ANECDOTE

Sudeten Germans

Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia sided with Hitler, leading to their expulsion after WWII.
This historical example highlights the consequences of losing sovereignty after wartime.

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Following a gut-wrenching 48 hours for the Bibas family and for all of us, six living hostages were released from Gaza today, including two who had been held there not for a year, but a decade. Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, and Tal Shoham were abducted on October 7, 2023. Avera Mengistu, an Ethiopian-Israeli, and Hisham al-Sayed, an Israeli Arab, had crossed into Gaza in 2014 and 2015, and were then taken hostage by Hamas.

Hamas’s decision to release more living hostages than originally planned today is believed – according to our Israeli sources – to be a response to a sustained American pressure campaign. Part of that pressure includes President Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take control of Gaza and relocate its entire population.

Two weeks since its unveiling, Trump’s Gaza proposal has continued to drive headlines and debate around the world. Though that proposal is already impacting the policy decisions of various stakeholders in Gaza, it is still largely perceived as a shocking, unprecedented idea. For this episode of Call Me Back, we sat down with a historian who argues that Trump’s plan is in fact aligned with the outcome of many modern wars.

Andrew Roberts is a British historian, member of the House of Lords, and the author of 24 books, including the New York Times bestseller, Churchill: Walking with Destiny. In a recent article for the Washington Free Beacon, Roberts writes, “peoples who unleash unprovoked aggressive wars against their neighbors and are then defeated…lose either their government or their sovereignty, or both.”

To read more by Andrew Roberts on this topic, go to the Washington Free Beacon: https://freebeacon.com/israel/the-historical-case-for-trumps-riviera/