With Israel facing multiple and potentially growing crises at its borders, Donald Trump lit a new Saturday with comments on the permanent relocation of the Palestinian population of Gaza to other countries.
Calling Gaza a “demolition site”, the president of the United States said he raised the problem with the king of Jordan suggesting that Arab countries should host and build homes for the Palestinians so that they could “may live in peace for a peace for a change”.
“We simply clean all that,” according to reports, Trump told reporters on Air Force One.
It was not clear if his words are an indication of a real change in the policy of the United States or simply reflections. However, the comment bounced around Middle East Sunday.
Islamic Jihad: one of the militant groups that participated in the attacks on October 7, 2023 More than 1,200 people And, and that he still has Israeli hostages in Gaza, he issued a statement saying that he condemned “in the stronger terms possible, the deportation of our people … out of their land.”
The group said that Trump’s comments reflect an “extreme Zionist agenda” and a denial of the Palestinian identity.
A high Hamas official also dismissed the notion out of control.
“The people of Gaza endured death to avoid abandoning their homeland, and will not leave it for any other reason,” said Sami Abu Zuhri in a statement.
In fact, among the few positive reactions to Trump’s comments have caused the leaders of Israel’s extremist settlers, who have made the elimination of the Palestinians of Gaza and the western West Bank occupied their most important political objective.
The leader of the Religious Zionism Party of Israel, Bezalel Smotrich, who is also the country’s finance minister, described Trump’s proposal as “an excellent idea.”
Gaza in ruins after 15 months of war
Human rights groups, such as Amnesty International, They have repeatedly accused Israel of ethnic cleaning by deliberately trying to destroy the Palestinian society with a fierce 15 -month bombing campaign in Gaza in response to the attack led by Hamas on October 7.
Since then, more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health authorities there. The UN says that more than two thirds of the buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged.
Israeli leaders, as well as the politicians of the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States, have rejected the genocide claim.
The Trudeau government has also said that it does not agree with the arguments presented by South Africa in the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
‘There is no Palestinian … that could accept his deal’
Despite accepting a high three -phase fire earlier this month, including an exchange of hostages and prisoners, the Israel government has refused to articulate a vision for postwar gaza or say how it believes that the territory should be governed.
Hamas released four Israeli soldiers on Saturday in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners in the second exchange of the Gaza truce of the week. The video released by the Israeli army showed that women hugged their parents, with smiles and tears, while the vitorial crowds that waved Palestinian flags greeted some of the Palestinians released in the West Bank occupied by Israel.
For Arab nations, particularly Jordan and Egypt, who have long -standing peace treaties with Israel, the perspective of being forced by Western countries or Israel to host Palestinians from Gaza has been seen for a long time as intensely destabilizing and politically unacceptable.
On Sunday, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that his country’s opposition to what Trump floated was “firm and unwavering.” The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it rejects any attempt to get the Palestinians from their lands, whether temporary or long term.
The agency of relief and works of the UN (Building) already has more than 2.3 million Palestinians living in Jordan.
“There is no Palestinian as far as I know I can accept his treatment,” he said Yohanan TzoreffPrincipal Researcher of the Institute for National Security Studies of Israel in Tel Aviv.
Tzoreff, an Israeli, was involved in the implementation of Oslo agreements for more than 30 years, and worked closely with the murdered Israeli Prime Minister Yitzat Rabin in the peace process, often serving as his Arab language translator.
“The idea of creating refugees, the idea of transferring people from one area to another area is one of the complicated problems in Arabic history and especially Palestinian history,” Tzoreff told CBC News.
“If (Trump) talks about it publicly and declares something, you put all the Arab people in the Middle East in the position that they will do everything that your idea cannot accept.”
The Palestinians determined to start again
During the weekend, the second exchange of Palestinian Israeli hostages and prisoners occurred, with four women soldiers from the Israeli defense forces who returned to Israel and 200 Palestinians were released from prison.
In the days passed since the Alto El Fuego was implemented, there have also been incredible scenes of Palestinians who try to return to their neighborhoods decimated in Gaza, determined to start again instead of abandoning the territory.
On Sunday, a sea of people who numb in the tens of thousands of thousands aligned behind the Israeli control points and the obstacles next to what Israel calls the Netzarim corridor, trying to return to the cities and neighborhoods in the north of Loop.
According to the terms of Alto El Fuego, it was supposed to have hundreds of thousands of civilians to return on Saturday, but Israel has accused Hamas of turning on aspects of the agreement, and in response prevented people from returning to the north.
Among those who expected, the response to Trump’s displacement suggestion was universally negative.
“This is our country, our land and the land of our ancestors,” said Sayyah Al-Siqali, 60, a cameraman who works for CBC News. “We do not respond to an American president.”
“(Trump) cannot displace and force immigration to people in their lands,” said Samir Al-58-year-old.
“Or we are all martyred or return to our cities; leave our cities, leave our country is impossible.”
The neighbors of Israel have been worried for a long time for their government triggering another forced displacement of Palestinians.
Before, during and after the foundation of Israel in 1948, more than 700,000 people fled or were expelled from their homes in what the Arabs call Nakba, or catastrophe.
Later, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee after the 1967 war, when Israel captured the territory west of the Jordan River and occupied East Jerusalem.
Many of the displaced ends up in Gaza, as well as in refugee fields in occupied West Bank.
The fate of whether their descendants can return to their ancestral homes in Israel have been among the most thorny problems faced by peace negotiators.
“I don’t know who his advisors (from Trump) are and with whom he is talking with … but they think they have to think again,” said Tzoreff, an analyst based in Tel Aviv.
Although the previous Biden administration was very criticized for not using its influence with the Netanyahu government to obtain a high fire before, it rejected massive displacement as a policy to resolve the Israel-Palestine crisis.
In one of his final public events, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated that Israel’s “genuine security” could only be achieved by recognizing a Palestinian state.
The new administration of the United States can point out the change in politics
In his short time as president, Trump has not made such statements, but his choice for the United States ambassador to Israel suggests that the new administration could abandon the solution of two states such as the preferred United States policy.
The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, a fervent supporter of Israel, It has been summoned Saying that there is no Palestine and that the concept is used as “a political tool to try to force the land away from Israel.”
Huckabee has also said that if there must be a state for the Palestinians, it must be carved out of land that belongs to the Arab neighbors of Israel, not Israel.
Trump received praise from the families of the Israelis Hostages in Gaza, for using his influence to push the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas to the current Alto El Fuego Lenate.
But expulsion, forced elimination or uprooting from the Palestinians of Gaza represents an idea that has repeatedly led to more conflicts, no less.
It is not clear to what extent Trump plans to press it.
