During the first period of Donald Trump, his administration installed harsh to the Palestinians, and reflected decades of American policy by recognizing the disputed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and saying that the United States is no longer considered Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank a violation of international law.
However, even this record is no longer the Palestinians to suggest Trump this week that the United States should take over Gaza – if necessary by force – and the transfer of 2 million people who live in the destroyed Palestinian pocket abroad.
“Trump does not know people in Gaza. Trump does not know people in the West Bank. People here prefer death in their homeland instead of leaving their homeland. Abed, a 21 -year -old student from Ramallah:” There is only one homeland. ” (When I heard the plan). Because it is impossible, it will not happen. “
However, besides the mood of challenge and disbelief, there was also a feeling of uncomfortable as a local population in Ramallah – a city that forms the administrative center of the West Bank – Trump organizers, and what it means for them and the Palestinian issue.
At a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Trump filmed his idea as a way to end the brutal war sparked by the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, which turned into a bloody tour Fighting In the history of decades -old Israeli -Palestinian conflict.
But for the Palestinians, the strange strange vision affirmed that Trump will encourage a government on a large scale as the most right in Israeli history, and to give a green light to extremist scientists to include the West Bank and the re -establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza.
“Our experience in Trump was terrible, and this appears to be more terrifying,” said Gasan Khatib, a lecturer at Birzeit University. “He was not talking about the cuff. He was reading a written statement. I think we needed to take seriously what he said.”
With an international condemnation of Trump's plan, administration officials have sought to retract the idea that the United States would deploy forces in Gaza. But Israeli officials welcomed his proposal to Hamas, as Israel Defense Minister Katz on Thursday directed the army to prepare a plan to allow Jizan to leave the pocket “voluntarily.”
Few threats have a deeper resonance for Palestinians from homelessness. In 1948, during the war that accompanied the founding of Israel, 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes by the Israeli forces. Nothing was allowed almost to return. Palestinians refer to the experience as a nucleus, or a disaster, and the design to avoid repetition is deeply rooted in the national soul.
“Those who left in 1948 were unable to return. They do not have an easy life in exile. Many of them have no passports. Nardin Kawa, a teacher from Naples, have no rights to people in the countries where they live.” We see them suffer. We have learned from the past, and we will not do it again. “
Even the destruction Israel This design has not changed in Gaza, most of whom are now in ruin, this design, according to Sami Karen, a 44 -year -old computer engineer from Jerusalem. “This new generation is not like our fathers,” he said. “They have a different mindset. They are more connected to the Earth.”
But the danger of displacement from Gaza was not the only threat to Trump's press conference. When asked if he would support Israel annexing the West Bank “areas”, Trump said while his administration has not yet taken position, “people love the idea” and that “perhaps” will issue an advertisement on the issue in the next four weeks. The annexation will be much simpler for Trump – who recognized Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights in his first term – to agree to take over Gaza.
For many in the West Bank, especially in more rural areas, the annexation feels that it has already happened. For decades, Israeli settlements – which are illegal under international law – expanded unnecessarily, while the new roads that bind them have criticized through the region, leaving Palestinian societies from each other.
Since October 7, locals say the situation has become more suffocated, with the high violence of the settlers, the Israeli army imposed hundreds of people in raids against militants in cities such as Jinin and Naples, and a network of checkpoints that once turned into short trips into an unimaginable Odyssey Prediction.
With Trump's return to the White House, many fear that the situation may become strict. Even before his announcement, Trump has strengthened the far right of Israel by appointing the strong Israeli supporters to the positions of senior management and removing the sanctions imposed by the Joe Biden administration on settlers who carried out attacks on the Palestinians in the West Bank.
“I think there will be more checkpoints, more people will die for no reason. Training courses have been suspended because the difficulty of mobility throughout the West Bank means that there is no sufficient number of Students who can attend.
The Israelis will feel more powerful because they are behind them. None of the United States presidents were good for us. . . They were always against the Arabs. “
Others said they hope that international pressure might reduce the Trump effect – at least in terms of his plans for Gaza. The Arab countries have refused to invite the American president to take them in Ghazan, with countries such as Jordan and Egypt, saying that doing so will undermine the hopes of the Palestinians in establishing their state and the security of their countries.
But Ibrahim Dallasha, director of the Horizon Center for Political Studies in Ramallah, said that even if there was a refusal by the Arab states to eventually take the Palestinians, this led to thwarting the idea of Trump's resettlement in the end attempts to expand the fragile shooting that informs It is three weeks old in Gaza.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu, who is under pressure from his far -right allies, pledged to resume the fighting, while standing next to Trump that Israel would return to war to ensure complete victory over Hamas.
“I don't think it is executed. But whether it is executed or not, it will lead to a very dangerous deepening of the conflict.” “Not only does the situation here make more complicated, but also has traces on regional stability. It cultivates seeds for a more bitter conflict.”
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