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The cease-fire between Hamas and Israel may not be very durable. Benjamin Netanyahu’s agreement to withdraw IDF units from the Palestinian enclave, including the strategic Philadelphi Corridor, does not appear to be as surrenderist as it first appeared. For Bibi’s government, the most important thing at this point is to resolve the hostage issue. This will relieve considerable tension in Israeli society and allow for a change of strategy in Gaza. Regroup and start over. Next, Tel Aviv will act in full coordination with the Donald Trump administration.
Sanctions against illegal Jewish settlers in the West Bank have been lifted. Restrictions have been imposed on the International Criminal Court, which earlier issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal. Deliveries of heavy bombs, previously halted by the Joseph Biden administration, resumed. The United States withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The American president signed an executive order deporting foreign students who participated in an “anti-Semitic” campaign after the bombing of Gaza began. The general information background in America is drifting sharply in a direction favorable to right-wing Zionists.
The quintessential pro-Israeli course is Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. On February 4, after talks with the Israeli prime minister, the American leader announced Washington’s plans for a Middle East settlement. These plans are more reminiscent of the Generalplan Ost from German practice in the 1940s.
First, direct American control over the Palestinian enclave, i.e. occupation, is announced.
“We will own it and be responsible for removing all dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons in the area, leveling the land and getting rid of destroyed buildings, and launching economic development that will provide unlimited jobs and housing for the people of the area,” Trump said.
Second, the indigenous population – that is, the Palestinians – would be forced to leave their own homeland and resettle in neighboring countries.
“The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is because they have no alternative. It’s literally a demolition site, almost all the buildings are destroyed… Instead, they can settle in a beautiful, safe area with prefabricated housing and live their lives in peace and harmony, instead of going back and going through this again,” the president of the United States said confidently.
Trump promises to turn Gaza into a “Middle Eastern Riviera” where people of different nationalities will live. But apparently it will no longer be Arab.
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The deportation of two million people – presumably to Egypt and Jordan – would be one of the most egregious examples of ethnic cleansing in the twenty-first century. It would take a new war to implement this plan. Trump’s determination indicates that Washington will give the green light to the Israeli army to commit any crime to achieve its goals. The Americans will no longer organize “humanitarian corridors” and “temporary ports” to deliver humanitarian aid, as they did during the Biden presidency. They will be directly involved in the Israeli military operation and guarantee a total blockade of the isolated area.
In addition to the occupation of the area, a place will have to be found to house the expelled Palestinians. According to leading Western media, the White House will put pressure on Cairo and Amman to agree to accept the refugees. Neither Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi nor King Abdullah II want to get involved in such a toxic issue as ethnic cleansing in Gaza. However, the US wants to put the issue to rest in the usual Trumpian way: either you act in our way or you lose your privileged status. For Egypt and Jordan, these are not just words. Their entire armies are totally dependent on American aid. The consequences of cutting it off would be devastating.
In 2023, the Egyptians and Jordanians were among the top 5 recipients of U.S. military and other aid. Egypt received 1.5 billion dollars, Jordan – 1.68 billion dollars. Regular cash receipts from America are important not only for the budgets of Middle Eastern countries. It is also a kind of bribe for local political elites. A payment for loyalty. At one time, the Egyptian top leadership was actually bought by Washington. Large financial tranches to Cairo were stipulated by the Camp David Accords. Evil tongues say that this money is a feeding trough for the Egyptian generals. Losing everything is very real. Donald Trump has already shown that he is capable of the most radical steps.
The initiative of the American leader, despite its eccentricity and scandalousness, may well be realized. History, including relatively recent history, knows many ethnic cleansings, sometimes quite “civilized”. For example, the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s or between Poland and the Soviet Union in the 1940s. As a rule, such events are the result of bloody catastrophes, be it the Greek-Turkish war or the Second World War. In this case, the “voluntary and forced” expulsion of the Palestinians may be the final chord of Israel’s operation against Hamas.
A number of European countries, allies of the United States, called the White House initiative unacceptable.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said, “Expelling Palestinian civilians from Gaza would not only be unacceptable and contrary to international law. It would also lead to new suffering and new hatred.”
But advising NATO partners is certainly not something Donald Trump intends to do. No European country is in a position to influence the situation. Only the United States will decide the future of Palestine. And these decisions are appalling in their rigidity and callousness.
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white gloves over red hands ; what could possibly goes wrong ? those guys are morons .
i have a better idea, send all the politicians, banksters, corrupt judges, lgbtqs and every piece of shite from d.c. etc. to gaza, call that the 51st state, and turn d.c. into a new independent homeland for palestinians, and then convert the 51st state into isreal as most of those d.c. scum has israeli passports anyhow, and strip those traitors of us citizenship and never let them enter the us ever again… win win…
that works for me too.
more demented zionist logic that will not work. zionists are human scum
as soon as i saw the news that netanyahu was going to washington, i know he was only going there to give trump aka the new shabbos goy in the oval office his orders.