When US President Donald Trump started talking 10 days ago about Gaza as a place to demolish, urging “cleansing the whole thing”, it was not clear how many remarks were beyond that.
But in the lead to the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he comments in his oval office before the meeting, and at the press conference itself, it is now clear that he is deeply serious in his proposals.
They represent the most radical progress in the established position of the USA -ao Israel and Palestinians in the recent history of the conflict; And he will see how he flies before international law.
In addition to the announcement to be absorbed by ordinary people on the field, this could also have a significant impact on the immediate phase process of letting out and releasing hostages at a critical moment.
Trump and his officials frame his call in – in his language – permanently “move” all Palestinians from Gaza as a humanitarian gesture, saying that there is no alternative for them because Gaza is “the place of demolition”.
According to international law, attempts for forcibly transmission of the population are strictly forbidden, and Palestinians, as well as the Arab nations, will see this as nothing less than a clear proposal aimed at their expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their country.
Because of this, Arab leaders have already categorically rejected his ideas, made with an increase in frequency in the last 10 days, when he suggested that Egypt and Jordan could “take” Palestinians from Gaza.
In a statement on Saturday, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Administration and the Arab League said that such a move could “threaten the stability of the region, the risk of expanding the conflict and to undermine the prospects for peace and coexistence among its peoples.”
It has long been the desire for the ultimateralist far right in Israel to expel Palestine from occupied territories and expand Jewish settlements in their place.
Since October 7, 2023, on Israel, these groups of which were part of Netanyahu’s coalitions-they said that the war against Hamas continued for a period of time, ultimately advocating the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in Gaza’s belt.
They continued the calls and opposed the current agreement on the tribute and layout of the hostages.
In his press conference with the Prime Minister of Israel, Trump went further from his recent growing calls to Palestine in Gaza to “move” to Egypt and Jordan, saying that the United States would then take over the territory and renew it.
Asked if he would return to Palestinians, he said that the “world people” would live there, saying that it would be an “international, incredible place” before adding “Palestine”.
His envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, summarized most of the tone around the proposal that day, saying Trump “this guy knows real estate”.
Trump said it would be a “Middle East Riviera.”
Asked if the American troops would be involved in the Gaza takeover, Mr. Trump said “we will do what is needed.”
His proposals are the most radical transformation in the US position in the territory since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the 1967 war, which is the beginning of the Israeli military occupation of the country, including the Gaza tape.
Gaza was already home to the Palestinians who escaped or were forced from their homes in wars that surrounded the creation of Israel.
They and their descendants make the vast majority of the population gauze to this day.
Trump’s suggestions, if they were adopted, would include the population, now more than two million people, forcing elsewhere in the Arab world or even wider, Trump says, to “move permanently”.
Proposals would delete the possibility of a future solution with two countries in any conventional sense and Palestinians will categorically reject them and the Arab world as a plan of expulsion.
A large part of Netanyahu’s political base and an ultra -nationalist movement of immigrants in Israel will primarily in the words of Trump’s words, considering them fulfilling the funds that Netanyahu puts it to stop “Gaza is a threat to Israel.”
For ordinary Palestinians, this would be a massive act of collective penalty.
