When US President Donald Trump began talking 10 days ago about Gaza as a destroying site, and called for “cleaning this whole thing”, it was not clear to what extent were these unexpected observations.
But in the period before the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his oval office, he is suspended before the meeting, and at the same press conference, it is now clear that he is very serious about his proposals.
It amounts to the most extreme swoop in the American position based on Israel and the Palestinians in the modern history of the conflict; It will be seen as flying in the face of international law.
In addition to how to absorb the advertisement by ordinary people on the ground, it can have a significant effect on the ceasefire on more urgent stages and the process of release hostages, at a critical turn.
Trump and his officials frame his call to – in his language – permanently “resettling” all Palestinians from Gaza as a humanitarian gesture, saying that there is no alternative to them because Gaza is a “demolition site”.
Under international law, the forced transfer of the population is strictly prohibited, and the Palestinians as well as the Arab countries consider that this is no less than a clear proposal aimed at expelling them and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from their lands.
For this reason, Arab leaders have already rejected his ideas categorically, made with increasing frequency during the past ten days, when he suggested that Egypt and Jordan may “take” the Palestinians from Gaza.
In a statement on Saturday, Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League that such a step “could threaten the stability of the region, risk the expansion of the conflict, and undermine the possibilities of peace and coexistence between its peoples.”
It has always been a desire for the extreme right in Israel to expel the Palestinians from the occupied territories and expand the Jewish settlements in their place.
Since October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, these groups-who were part of the Netanyahu-war alliance against Hamas continued indefinitely, ultimately pledged to re-establish Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.
They continued their calls and opposed the current ceasefire and the hostages.
In his White House press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister, Trump went further than his recent growing calls to the Palestinians in Gaza that they were “transferred” to Egypt and Jordan, saying that the United States will take the region after that and rebuild it.
When asked if the Palestinians would be allowed to return, he said, “The people of the world” will live there, saying it would be “an incredible international place”, before the Palestinians also added.
His Middle East envoy Steve Wittouf summarized a lot of tone about the proposal, saying Trump, “This man knows real estate.”
Trump said it would be “the Riviera in the Middle East.”
When asked whether the American forces will participate in the seizure of Gaza, Mr. Trump said, “We will do what is necessary.”
His proposals are promoted to the most extreme transformation in the American position on the region since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the 1967 war, which witnessed the beginning of the military occupation of Israel, including the Gaza Strip.
Gaza was home to the Palestinians who fled or forced from their homes in the wars surrounding the establishment of Israel.
They and their offspring are the vast majority of Gaza population to this day.
Trump says, if it is enact, will include that the population, now more than two million people, are forced elsewhere in the Arab world or even after that, to “resettle … permanently.”
The proposals would wipe the possibility of a two -way solution in the future in any traditional meaning and will be categorically rejected by the Palestinians and the Arab world as an expulsion plan.
Many Netanyahu's political base and extremist settlers in Israel will link President Trump's words, and see it as a way to achieve a way for Netanyahu put it on stopping “Gaza as a threat to Israel.”
For ordinary Palestinians, this will be a collective action of collective punishment.
