Trump Reveals Plan For The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza
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Well that didnât take long. President Trump has said he wants to âclean outâ Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. It would also align perfectly with longstanding Israeli agendas to remove Palestinians from their homeland so that their territory can be seized and settled by Jews.
Speaking with the press on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he talked to Jordanâs King Abdullah II about taking in large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza, and said he plans to speak with Egyptâs president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about doing the same.
âIâd like Egypt to take people and Iâd like Jordan to take people,â Trump told reporters, saying the Gaza Strip is âa real messâ and âliterally a demolition siteâ.
âYouâre talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,â Trump said.
The president said that this new arrangement could be either temporary or long-term, but one would have to be extremely naive to believe that either Israel or Washington plan on emptying out Gaza of its inconvenient population, rebuilding it, and then bringing them all back to shiny new homes. Israel has a very extensive history of grabbing land from Palestinians and then refusing to give it back, which is why there are so-called ârefugee campsâ for displaced Palestinians that are as old as the state of Israel itself.
âJust five days into his second term as president, Trump left no doubt about what his intentions are for Gaza,â Joe Lauria wrote for Consortium Newson Trumpâs comments, adding, âHe tried to present what he was saying as humanitarian concern, but only the most ill-informed person about Gaza would not see that he is talking about committing the crime of forcibly relocating a population.â
Trump supporters will no doubt defend his stated plans as a compassionate effort to rescue Palestinians from unfortunate circumstances, because Trump supporters are chowder-brained bootlickers who would defend literally anything their president did. But make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, and would fulfill the darkest desires of the most depraved political factions in Israel.
Mere days after the Hamas attack on October 7 2023, Israelâs Intelligence Ministry produced a document proposing the removal of Gazaâs population to Egyptâs Sinai Peninsula. At around the same time, an Israeli think tank called the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a paper arguing that âThere is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.â
Since that time both the Israeli government and the Israeli media have gotten much less shy about saying that ethnic cleansing is the plan for Gaza. A few weeks ago multiple far-right Knesset members wrote a letter to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz demanding the âcomplete cleansingâ of northern Gaza using siege warfare and attacks on civilians to drive the population out of the area. In November of last year, former Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon stated unequivocally that Israel was indeed in the process of ethnically cleansing Gaza. In October, the Israeli outlet Haaretz published an editorial titled âIf It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing, It Probably Isâ.
One narrative Israel and its apologists like to pushis that this forced mass displacement would be âvoluntary migrationâ, which is ridiculous nonsense. Obviously if you make a place completely uninhabitable and refuse to rush massive amounts of aid to them so that they can live, you are forcing them to relocate as surely as if youâd forced them at gunpoint. Giving people the choice to relocate or starve is not giving them a choice at all.
Israelâs plan for Gaza once its ethnic cleansing agenda is complete is of course to begin building Jewish settlements there. Last year Israeli forces sparked a minor controversy by sneaking extremist settlement movement leader Daniella Weiss into northern Gaza so that she could scout the land for future use. Back in April a Knesset member named Limor Son Har-Melech stated on Israeli televisionthat there are secret plans within the Israeli government to settle Gaza after military operations are complete. This past November numerous Israeli officials attended an event brazenly titled âPreparing to Resettle Gaza,â just in case you needed it spelled out even more clearly where all this appears to be headed.
Trumpâs comments help illuminate what he meant when he gushed about all the wonderful things that could be done with Gaza when speaking to the press the other day.
âGazaâs interesting, itâs a phenomenal location,â he said on Monday. âOn the sea, the best weather. Everythingâs good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. Itâs very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.â
It remains to be seen if Jordan and Egypt can be bribed or coerced into participating in the empireâs ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, but either way the last word I would use to describe those plans is âfantasticâ.
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