Former UK PM: 'Mar-a-Lago is a fantastic place for Gazans'

Former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, described Mar-a-Lago in Florida as a 'fantastic place' to relocate millions of displaced Gazans, but said this couldn't happen because the land is owned by someone, as is the case in Gaza. His comment at the World Government Summit in Dubai follows US President Donald Trump's remarks about "owning" the besieged Strip and displacing Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said US President Donald Trump’s famous Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida would be a “fantastic place” to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, amid Trump’s controversial plans to take over the Strip and expel its population.

Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Wednesday, Johnson said: “I actually happened to be giving a speech in Florida the other day and I looked at the beach at Mar-a-Lago and I thought: ‘This is absolutely a fantastic place if you wanted to resettle millions of people from the Middle East, absolutely beautiful’.”

Mocking the US president’s plans to “take over” the besieged Gaza Strip, expel its Palestinian population to parts of other countries and redevelop Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East”, Boris added: “I think he’s inviting everybody to say, ‘Look, this place plainly does have great potential. It does have a wonderful location.’”

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