Donald Trump wants to be the saviour of the Middle East, but his childish plans to force Gaza into peace will wreak havoc across the Middle East, according to an expert. Today the president sent shockwaves across the world when he announced the US would "take over" the contested Gaza Strip. Leaving reporters stunned, he proposed moving all Palestinians from the razed territory, move them to surrounding countries, while turning the remaining land into some kind of business hub theme park.

During a joint press conference with a smug Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said current conditions in Gaza made it uninhabitable; a situation ordered by the man standing next to him. "You can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location," Trump asserted, adding: "I think it should be a location that's going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it's all death in Gaza.". Trump has a plan which he claimed would stop Gaza's macabre history from becoming its future. "I do see a long-term ownership position", he said, suggesting that America would take control over the territory indefinitely.

Though Trump's suggestions appear out of this world, he is experiencing a very mortal conundrum - a desire to stamp his legacy on the world, according to international security and intelligence expert and author Professor Anthony Glees. The professor, who works at the University of Buckingham, believes Trump is facing his own mortality and wants to make a lasting mark on history. He told The Mirror: "Before he goes the way of all flesh, Trump clearly has a Messianic urge to make peace and heal the wounds of a deeply troubled world. He wants to use the fact that the USA is now the world's superpower to achieve this. Is this mad, is this bad or is it the start of a new world order, a new American century where people are effectively bullied into living in peace with each other?".

But the president is failing to realise the impact and the ensuing insecurity his words are leading to in the rest of the world. Prof Glees said: "Trump is spreading chaos all over the place, like a thoughtless farmer spewing manure all over the roads.". Experts have long stated the sole solution to the raging, decades-long conflict is to give the Palestinian people their own land and sovereignty, an argument that Prof Glees supported. The two-state solution has long been accepted as the best hope for peace between the two nations and would see an independent Palestinian state established beside Israel. It has long been the official position of the UK and the UN, and until today, the US.

Trump believes his new solution would be a way of creating lasting peace in a region that has not had a period without bloodshed in centuries. Palestinians will not even consider peace until they have their own home, Professor Glees explained. He continued: "By displacing 2m Gazan Palestinians even if Egypt and Jordan would accept them (which they've always said they would not) you'd not get peace. If the US colonised Gaza you'd not get peace. The Palestinians won't think about peace until they get a homeland and the Israelis ought to understand that better than anyone else, to be honest. Trump says he wants peace, and I believe he does. He also doesn't want the US involved in foreign wars.".

Trump clearly hasn't thought this through, and his proposal is actually a "recipe for another 80 years of war", the professor argued. "The only conceivable way Trump could move populations around is by using US force to do so. That'd involve American in the further 80 years of war", he said. One solution that would actually work, the professor said, is to offer the Palestinians "Green Cards so they could go and work in the USA". But Trump has repeatedly come down hard on immigration, so he wouldn't be able to sell that to his supporters.