Is this supposed to be a generous offer?

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger says the Gazans should be moved into the Sinai desert. A Palestinian state “could be constructed for them”. Oh, and who would build the nice city? Why, funny you should ask. Britian, the EU and the US can build a city for the Palestinians in the Egyptian desert. There (brushing hands together). That was easy.

According to Metzger, the plan would be to “take all the poor people from Gaza to move them to a wonderful new modern country with trains buses cars, like in Arizona - we are now in a generation where you can take a desert and build a city. This will be a solution for the poor people - they will have a nice county, and we shall have our country and we shall live in peace.”

Metzger was quoted as telling the paper that the plan was new and he had not presented it to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

“I have thought about it with some wise people only in the last two weeks, and I think it is a great idea - nobody spoke about it before.” He expressed his intent to discuss the matter with Olmert and anticipated that the idea would find popularity among Israelis. He prefaced his comments by pointing out that he could not advise on political matters as he is a religious leader in Israel, noting that according to the law he “cannot be involved in political situations.”

Unbelievable. Where does one even begin with this kind of thinking?