‘Trump is a lunatic’: Palestinian in Gaza Mocks is taken over by the US President | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Horning on a wooden reed, 72-year-old Fathi Abu al-Saeed moves the streets of the ruins of Al-Cathy Street in the al-Cadiba-Summary Ritual since he returned from displacement in the Al-Mawas Coastal region after 19 January Gaza stopping fire. Carefully crossing the debris that left 15 months of ruthless Israeli bombing, he raised the reed, pointing to the demolished house.
“See that bunch of useless ruins?” He says. “It’s more precious than the United States and everything in it.”
His audience – a group of children, including some 50 children and grandchildren – listens carefully, motionlessly forecasts of heavy rain and strong winds. Others join them – children from displaced families who have also returned, not untouched homes, but to the ruins of what it used to be. Nowhere else, they renew their lives among the wrecks.
Each morning Abu al-Saeed exchanges words of resistance with neighbors. But today US President Donald Trump Recent objections about gauze – His fantasy about the cleansing of the Palestinian population to build a “Riviera in the Middle East” – it offers new material for its sarcasm and defiance.
“Trump speaks as if he is a king who divides the earth,” the mockery of Abu al-Saeed. “Maybe he should move his Israeli friends somewhere outside Palestine and leave Gaza alone.”
Trump’s CommentsWhich led to the widespread condemnation, it emphasized the plan for the relocation of the Palestinians in Gaza elsewhere, while now they would “take over” and “own” territory. Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who faces an order for the arrest of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Gaza – Trump claimed that Palestinians deserved it better than their alleged “bad luck”.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to return Trump’s proposal that Palestinians would move “permanently”, saying that he would need to live somewhere else in “temporary” while the enclave was restored.
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During the 15 months of Israeli bombing, more than 60 percent of Gaza infrastructure, including hospitals, universities and schools, was destroyed. Washington, according to the previous US administration, was the largest Israeli support, sending $ 17.9 billion In military assistance during the first year of the war – the largest annual total amount ever.
“This is a conversation about a madman,” says Abu al-Saeed. “And as we say to the Arabs,” If the speaker is a madman, let the listener be healthy. “
By rejecting Trump’s comments as absurd, Abu al-Saeed shook his head. “It’s the best fantasy ever dreamed of world leader,” he says, crossing between disbelief and laughter. “Any healthy person who knows Palestinians understands that leaving our homeland like death itself. Did Trump really think we would pack up after all that?”
For Abu al-Saeed, the idea of mass displacement is personal. His father was forced from Jaffa – which is now part of Israel – Zionist militia in 1948 when Israel was formed and his mother’s family was expelled from the nearby village of Sarafand. He grew up on the stories of that first disaster – Nakba – and now lives through the second.
“We already know what it means to lose everything,” he says, gesturing in the ruins. “But we also know what it means to hold on.”
War Displaced 90 percent gauze 2.3 million people. Many returned, not standing homes, but in wreckage – clearing the debris, rescuing what they could, or set tents on the ruins.
“We didn’t even go under genocide,” says Abu Al-Saeed, his voice stable. “It’s not about anywhere else – it’s our homeland. Our country. Every brick here is worth more than anything I can offer now.”
For a week Trump pressed Egypt and Jordan to absorb the Gaza population, setting up their remodeling plan as a job creation project. But even his allies in Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dabi and beyond rejected the idea.
“Trump has to think we live in a hotel that can be closed,” laughs Abu al-Saeed. “But Gaza is not a real estate project – that’s our country.”
It hits the reed along the ruins. “This country is mixed with our sweat and blood. No one will go here – regardless of threats or promises.”
“Is he crazy or just stupid?”
Sitting on a pile of debris, surrounded by eager children, Abu al-Saeed turns to his 10-year-old granddaughter Mohammad, hugging.
“Trump says we should leave Gaza and move to Egypt or Jordan. What do you think?”
The boy burst into laughter. “Is he crazy or just stupid? Why should we leave? Gaza is part of Palestine!”
The other children are leaning, the voices have risen, “Who leaves their home? We will stay, renew and fight for it.”
Abu al-Saeed laughed. “There is your answer, Trump. Even our children know better than you.”
Through the war, bombing attacks, starvation tactics and attacks on hospitals killed more than 17,400 children, ordered thousands of more.
“What is the logic like?” Abu al-Saeed pie. “They starve us, bombard us, and then they seem surprised when we refuse to leave?”
Citing an unbreakable connection that Palestinians feel with their country, he adds, “You know what will never happen again? We are leaving.”
Trump, he believes, does not understand Palestine or their fight. “Israel is built on a lie” country without a nation, “he says.” But we are here and we stay. “
His eyes are tight. “For Trump, as for Netanyahu, the only solution is to disappear Palestinians.”
Correcting his back despite his age, Abu al-Saeed says, “But we won’t.”
This part was published in collaboration with Egab.
