The first president of the United States, Donald Trump, thought about his day of inauguration on January 20th on January that the Gaza belt was a “phenomenal place”, where “beautiful things could be done”. Then on January 26, an almost immediate proposal followed, where he told reporters that Palestinians should move to Egypt and Jordan to “just clean” the enclave.
The question is whether it is a serious proposal and whether any displacement of Palestinians will be temporary or permanently was unclear, because Trump is still occasional comments on the subject.
But then, on Tuesday, appearing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House – in the first official visit of a foreign leader from the inauguration of the new president – Trump dropped the bomb, declaring that the US would “Download” and “your own” gauzehoping that Palestinians would “go to other countries” there in what would basically mean ethnic cleansing.
On Wednesday, his press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, said Trump did not commit to American troops on the field in Gaza and that people who live there will be “temporarily moved”, providing several other details about the plan that was widely rejected by Palestinians, Arab states – including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia – and many countries internationally.
Here’s all you need to know about Trump’s proposal and whether he is serious or his plan is possible at all.
Why did Trump announce his gauze announcement? And what does he really want?
Determining Trump’s true intentions is often difficult. The man who has published a book called the Arts of the Agreement is proud of his negotiating sharp, and can be difficult to distinguish between what is his initial position and what is the ultimate goal – or even if the ultimate goal currently exists.
“Donald Trump’s attempt at psycho-analysis is an exercise in vain,” said Jasmine El-Gamal, analyst of politics in the Middle East, for Al Jazeera. “No one knows what’s in Trump’s head.”
Continued, “It’s hard to imagine to believe [the US] He can get in, push people, and as Trump said, to call a ‘world people’ to live there. It is absolutely fantasy … In the meantime, it is important that you continue not to normalize such ideas, but to review the real reality in the field of Arabic positions. “
The announcement could be an attempt to make Israel’s true right -winger – who invited to the illegal Israeli settlement Gaza – happy after anger for his support for the truce to end the Israeli war on the enclave.
This could also be interpreted as an attempt to strengthen the Arab states strongly for the renewal of Gaza – Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz framed the plan as potentially one of many. “[Trump’s announcement] It will bring the whole region to come up with its solutions, “Waltz said.
How much is a feasible idea to take over Gaza now?
Trump’s comments shocked even his most important supporters-eel-gamal, he cited the Republican senator of southern Caroline Lindsey Graham as an example. Graham doubted support, even from Trump’s Make American Great Base again, for American troops on the field in Gaza, a point made by several other Republicans.
And then there is a reality of 2 million Palestinians who would be emigrated from their country – with a large majority having no desire to leaveAs you can see the immediate return to the north of Gaza of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were displaced in the south of the territory during the war.
No doubt would be armed resistance to any efforts to ethnically clean up Palestine from Gaza, and despite Israel, which broke through Gaza over 15 months of struggle – killing more than 61,000 Palestinians – his army was unable to demolish the Palestinian resistance forces.
In fact, despite the Hamasu losses, the group had allegedly recruited as many fighters as he lost and repaired most of his infrastructure.
Tariq Kenney-Shawa, US Policy in the Palestinian Research Center Al-Shabak, said there are numerous reasons why mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza will not play the way Trump says, and that he will drain the president’s chances of scoring goals, such as normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
“Now” Downloading “Gaza would not only further interfere with the chances of American interests in the region fulfilling, but would fly against the heart of America itself,” Kenney-Shaw said.
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a strict American isolationist who is popular with Trump’s base on Wednesday, did so in a post on social media, saying: “I thought we voted for America first. We have no job that we are thinking about another occupation for the ruin of our treasure and the shedding of the blood of our soldiers.
Hamdi, a journalist, advisor and political advisor, said it was hard to imagine that Trump’s supporters supported the presence of American troops in Gaza. “Instead, Trump is advocating for a compromise that are regional forces that are warm Israel form a regional” peaceful “force to restrain gauze,” he told Al Jazeera.
What is the position of American Arabian allies?
El-Gamal pointed out that US partners in the region Quickly rejected Trump’s proposal directly.
“Saudi Arabia was so much intended to broadcast the same message that Published a statement At 4:30 in the morning their time. They did not wait until working hours to say that it was a non-stanter, “El-Gamal said.” This cannot happen without the approval and participation of the Arab countries, so the question is what is the alternative to this plan? “
King Abdullah of Jordan should visit the White House next week. The Leavitt printing secretary indicated that the monarch could change and accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza, just as other world leaders had left in conflict with Trump since he repeated the Presidency.
Is the foreign download of gauze a new idea?
Israeli politicians have long had a fantasy to take Gaza.
Israel previously built illegal settlements in Gaza before former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon moved them in 2005. Israel has since quickly expanded illegal settlements on the occupied west coast and occupied by East Jerusalem.
Sharon justified the exclusion of Gaza, claiming that Jewish Israelites would never represent a majority in Gaza. Israel, however, continued to control the approach of Gazi and the airspace over it, carrying out the siege of 2007, which led to the enclave compared to “open -air prison”.
At the beginning of the war against Gaza, a leaked document from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, he proposed the movement of the Palestinians from the territory to the Egyptian Sinai Desert.
Netanyahu played this idea in public – ethnic cleansing is against international law – but his supporters, including ministers in the Government, continued to push the idea. And after Trump’s announcement, the Israelis welcomed the idea from the whole political spectrum.
“This idea is so pointless, but this is what Israelis have been pushing for a long time,” said Diana Butba, a former advisor to the Palestinian liberation organization and expert in Israel-Palestine.
“It’s not unique to Trump,” she told Al Jazeera.
How does Trump use?
In March 2024, Trump’s son -in -law Jared Kushner suggested that Israel should remove the Palestinian population from Gaza and clean the tape, saying that “the gauze property on the coast could be very valuable.”
He added that the population could be taken to Egypt or to the desert of Naqab (Negev) in southern Israel – Israel supports the first and refuses to consider the latter.
Kushner is a tycoon of real estate that, during Trump’s first presidential term, was in charge of managing the peaceful process of Israel-Palestine, which has been effectively corrupt for about two decades, analysts say.
During his recent address, Trump repeated some of Kushner’s feelings.
“[We’ll] Include it in an international, amazing place. I think the potential for Gaza’s belt is amazing, “he said.
“And I think the whole world, representatives from all over the world will be there and will live there,” he added.
Butba believes that Trump does not respect the well -being of Palestinians, their history or culture.
“Who are you to decide that we want a Riviera in the Middle East that completely releases our history?” She was established.
“[The majority] The Gaza Gaza population is not even from the gaza belt and they just want to return to their homes [in what is today Israel]. Why is this not a more practical option? “
Is Trump’s plan a part of Netanyahu’s goal to eradicate Hamas?
True, the “eradication” of Hamas is often cited as a goal and reason to destroy the delicate in Gaza, but observers say that the real motivations of Israel are different.
“This is an excuse by the Israelites. They have always insisted on this type of ‘Divine claim’ Gazi. This returns before October 2023,” said political advisor Hamdi.
“In this regard, the Israelis welcome Trump’s announcement [about expelling all the people in Gaza]. However, Trump also imposed a break of fire, which many of the Israelis are not at all. My instinct is not inclined to support the continuation of the war and wants to find a way to empty Gaza without one. “
Hamdi also suspected Hamas could be completely eradicated.
“Many people are still supporting Hamas. We have seen this after the end of the fire. The idea of ’resistance’ is older than Hamas, and Hamas is simply a newer manifestation of this while Palestinians are trying to stop the ruthless Israeli impetus to get them out of their homes,” he said.
“This is now being asked many in Washington. If they go there [as Trump has said] The resistance could shoot them. Are they now – and the American public – ready for another Vietnam? “
