“The entire region is shaken now, and it's good,” Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Effie Defrin told reporters. “Because for more than seven decades, eight decades, we have repeated the same mistakes.”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza has “shaken the entire system” of regional thinking on how to approach the Palestinians, a former general in the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Effie Defrin told reporters at an event hosted by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) that Trump’s plan to rebuild Gaza while Palestinians are housed in third countries has scrambled the approach of Arab leaders throughout the region.
“He actually shook the system. He shook the box,” Defrin said. “The entire region is shaken now, and it’s good. It’s good for the cause. Because for more than seven decades, eight decades, we have repeated the same mistakes and same solutions to the old problem without any progress.”