The thoughtful right of the US president on the country of other people is very well known to Africans.
Statement of United States President Donald Trump that he planned to throw out all Palestinians out of Gaza’s belt and turn it into a US “Middle East Riviera” rightly pulled a condemnation from around the world, including, including, ironic, from the Western peoples that supported Israeli genocidal bombing that is a devastating territory. Many point out that ethnic cleansing violates international law and that for any reason the Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibit the forcible displacement of the civilian population.
This is all true, but as an African, I am drawn to a slightly different aspect of Trump’s Declaration: His thoughtful right to someone else’s land. The claims that he has the right to take a gauze should not be isolated from the claims he presented in Greenland and the Panaman territory. Everyone springs from the same root, the one who has nurtured half a millennium of the European colonial exacerbation.
White fantasies about the rights to the countries of other nations can be monitored all the way to Alkakova from 1479, which determined the principle that an area outside Europe could be requested by a European country and followed by within 50 years Treaty of Tordesillas and Saragossa with a contract with which Portuguese and Spanish sought to divide the globe between themselves. From this, a clear line to the infamous Berlin conference of Western Africa 400 years later, attended by the United States and all the main European forces that have established a legal request for Europeans to take all Africa to the one who could take it.
It was in Berlin, “Effective Occupation” doctrine – Basically demanded that the occupation of the force show that they could implement their rule and protect the free trade to legitimize their claims – articulated. The precedent of using the protection and development of capitalism to justify colonial occupation is today reflected in Trump’s claim that it will renew and internationalize the gauze, creating jobs and prosperity for “All”. Basically, Trump inadvertently tries to base his colonial claim on the science of science: that he can impose American rule, in this case by expelling the natives and will enable the boom trade.
To be fair, Trump is only based on the ideas that have been circulating for months, mostly from Israel, which seek to justify continuous occupation under the gauze conversion section into Dubai or Singapore. In May last year the Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, allegedly discovered exactly such a plan This would retain Israeli control over the territory and justified it with the implementation of “Marshall’s Plan”, which would turn it into a “significant industrial port in the Mediterranean” and made it part of the “huge free trade zone”.
As Africans can confirm, ideas that sacrifice local sovereignty and the rights to the altar of international free trade regions are rarely handled for the natives. The structures that needed to enable the free trade that the Berlin conference established 140 years ago gave birth to the horror that was the free state of Congo – a true hell that demanded lives up to 13 million Congoles in 23 years. The conference was also full and militarized what became known as Scramble For Africa, accompanied by the brutal wars of conquest, illness and campaign of extermination. More than a century later, Africans still live with influence.
Nevertheless, around the world, the memories of the Berlin conference and the destruction he created faded. In 2017, addressing the Berlin Humanitarian Congress, then the ICRC Operation Coordinator, Mamadou Sow, started his remarks Noticing “I’m from Africa. And it is very interesting to be in Berlin for Congress. ” The joke fell. He would later comment on x That it was a day when he “realized that most educated Europeans know little about their colonial history.” People today can blame the Africans themselves for its consequences, just as Palestinians are routinely guilty of the result of Israeli occupation and blockage. How often do we act False restraint This Israel left Gaza’s belt in 2005, hoping that the new independent country would become Singapore of the Middle East, but that Hamas turned it into a terror base?
But the lesson is clear. Gaza recolonization, whether Israel, now or any coalition of states, is neither sustainable nor moral. There is no alternative to local Palestinian sovereignty. The African countries are to rely on the history of Berlin and say in one voice: never again!
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