Gaza peace protesters rallied Americans by the hundreds of thousands to oppose President Joe Biden and vote “uncommitted” in Democratic primaries. They heckled Vice President Kamala Harris and disrupted her events. On Election Day, Donald Trump prevailed in the majority-Arab town of Dearborn, Michigan. And across the country, many young voters stayed home or even voted for Trump — likely because, in part, they were disenchanted that the Biden administration had been insufficiently tough on Israel.

How’s that working out now?

Trump, hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, made the stunning declaration that he wants all Palestinians removed from Gaza — permanently.

“All of them,” Trump said. “I mean, we’re talking about probably a million-seven people, a million-seven, maybe a million-eight. But I think all of them. I think they’ll be resettled in areas where they can live a beautiful life and not be worried about dying every day.”

And what would become of Gaza after all Palestinians were evicted? At a formal news conference with Netanyahu in the East Room a couple of hours later, Trump unveiled his next proposal: “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. ... We’ll own it.”

Huh?

“You are talking tonight about the U.S. taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that?” an incredulous Kelly O’Donnell of NBC News asked. “Are you talking about a permanent occupation?”

“I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump answered, as though the Palestinian enclave were a hotel property on the market. “Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent.”

Greenland, Panama, Canada and now Gaza: The sun will never set on Trump’s colonial empire.

A moment later, the president said he was also considering evicting the Palestinians from the West Bank and awarding that territory to Israel. “We’re discussing that,” Trump said when asked about giving Israel control over biblical “Judea and Samaria,” which includes the West Bank. “And people do like the idea.” He promised an announcement “on that very specific topic over the next four weeks.”

From the river to the sea, Palestine will cease to exist. As uncommitted voters now know: Elections have consequences.

Trump’s elimination of all Palestinian land went even farther than Netanyahu’s expansionist designs — but the prime minister liked what he heard. “President Trump is taking it to a much higher level,” he said at Tuesday’s news conference. “I think it’s something that could change history and it’s worth us really pursuing this.” Netanyahu took multiple opportunities to bash Biden and to gush over Trump for sending him weapons that Biden had withheld, and for lifting Biden’s sanctions against Israeli settlers accused of violence in the West Bank.

Trump was proposing an act of towering cruelty. The world still hasn’t figured out what to do about the existing Palestinian refugees — 1.5 million of whom live in refugee camps in the region. Now, Trump plans to make refugees of some 2 million additional Palestinians. Or perhaps 5 million more, if he’s also planning to evict them from the West Bank.

But Trump presented his plans to remove Palestinians from their homeland as a humanitarian gesture. “Gaza is not a place for people to be living,” he reasoned during his Oval Office session. Though he hasn’t actually visited the place, “I’ve seen every picture from every angle, better than if I were there. And nobody can live there.”

And so, the benevolent Trump continued, there would be “massive amounts of money supplied by other people” — but not the United States — to resettle these Palestinian refugees in other countries, particularly Egypt and Jordan.

Both Jordan and Egypt have flatly rejected any such plan, for it would destabilize if not topple their governments. But Trump is not accepting their repudiation: “They say they’re not going to accept. I say they will.”

As he rolled out plans to destabilize allies and dislocate millions, Trump also mentioned that he thinks he should be rewarded with a medal — from Norway. “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize,” he said at the session with Netanyahu in the Oval Office, in response to a reporter’s question. “It’s too bad. I deserve it.”

The Palestinians will be out of luck, but the United States will have some prime waterfront property on the Mediterranean. “I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy,” he said. “But the Riviera of the Middle East, this could be ... so magnificent.”

And who will live in the former Palestinian territory? “The world’s people,” Trump explained. “I think the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable.”

Just not for the Palestinians.