President Trump had previously proposed the resettlement of the Arab Muslim colonists in Gaza, dubbed by some as the ‘Palestinians’, but this time in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, he laid out more of a proposal in which the United States would take control of Gaza and the population would be resettled.

While Gaza does have various advantages, it was used as a port in Roman times, and might be usable as a naval base, and in the right hands would make for some nice beachfront property, this is likely to be more of an attempt to reboot negotiations by starting from the strongest possible American position.

After negotiations stalemated by escalating Arab Muslim demands, President Trump’s proposal certainly reboots them from a whole new perspective. The assertion that America would take Gaza and might sign off on Israeli declarations of sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria, confronts the Arab Muslim states with a whole new paradigm, and one that would potentially force them to actually make some concessions.

Or President Trump could actually be serious.

Still much like the talk of annexing Canada and reclaiming the Panama Canal, he’s starting with the toughest possible position, and that’s not a bad place to be when conducting negotiations.