BREAKING: Trump reportedly in talks to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya, using frozen Libyan assets as payment. This isn’t a “deal.” It’s bribing unelected Libyans to advance ethnic cleansing with their own money. Here’s a thread with everything you need to know 👇
1. The reported plan involves moving 1 million Palestinians to Libya- equivalent to the US absorbing 46 million people. Yet the article makes of housing or infrastructure. Administration officials are more focused on transportation by air/sea/land than where or how they’d live?
2. But..This isn’t a new idea! It stems from a 2025 article by Israeli-American analysts published in @TimesofIsrael outlining how to exploit Libya’s division. The proposal explicitly targets Haftar’s Eastern Libya as the dumping ground for Palestinians who would serve as
@TimesofIsrael 3. Why now? Libya’s competing governments - neither democratically elected - are desperate for international legitimacy and access to frozen assets. The Trump administration sees this power struggle as leverage to advance ethnic cleansing disguised as “resettlement.”
@TimesofIsrael 4. Just last week, the US nearly sent migrants to Libya before a judge blocked the move. Both Dbeibah’s government and Haftar’s forces denied involvement, yet negotiations continue behind closed doors as State Dept held talks w both sides in Washington. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/0...
@TimesofIsrael 5: Life for refugees in Libya is horrific. @amnesty has documented systematic torture, sexual violence, and extortion in Libya’s detention centers. Palestinians would be thrown into a country where even Libyan citizens face arbitrary detention and torture.
@TimesofIsrael @amnesty 6. Beyond this, don’t lose sight of one fact. This ‘deal’ or any like it would constitute a forced displacement larger than the Nakba of 1948. It’s not a peace plan or a solution - it’s the complete erasure of the Palestinians’ right to EVER return to their homeland.
