On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which the International Criminal Court sought alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, was warmly received by President Trump in the White House.
Netanyahu, a sponsor for a long time Trump, transmitted to satisfaction when the two men met with the journalists and Trump declared that the Palestinians, expelled from their homes by the brutal war in Israel in Gaza, should be “reappeared” in third countries. This statement is effectively support from the calls of the Israeli right (including senior government officials) expel the Palestinians who date back to decades and have accelerated since October 7, 2023. Trump even said that the United States “take control” Loop.
The president's comments should not be taken lightly. They are only the last of a series that has recently made to get the Palestinians from Gaza, chillingly talking about the need for “clean“The territory and asking The leaders of Egypt, Jordan and even Indonesia to assume them. If they are implemented, this plan would result in a massive and even more shedding of blood and destabilization in the region, and would involve the US troops who occupy and colonize the Palestinian land in violation of the violation of the law.
If someone doubts the severity of Trump's statements. There is no doubt that Netanyahu could consider them a green light to finish what at least is Gaza's ethnic cleaning, whether it is carried out by Israeli or American soldiers. In fact, on Thursday, the Israeli army was tidy to prepare plans for the “voluntary game” of the Palestinians of Gaza.
Trump was careful to express his plan in humanitarian terms, as did Israeli officials when they talk about expelling the Palestinians, using euphemisms such as voluntary departure or voluntary migration, but do not make mistakes: they would imply the forced displacement of about 2 million people. Forced displacement and resettlement are war crimes, even when they are made under the pretext of humanitarian intention.
Meanwhile, in the field in Gaza, Israel's army has continued to kill and wound The “eradication” of Hamas. On Sunday, Israel failed to meet a deadline to send a negotiation team to discuss Phase 2 of the Alto El Fuego. Netanyahu seems to see fire as a tactical pause and has little or no intention of making it permanent.
In the heart of Trump's Middle East politics there is an illusion that was shared by President Biden and fed by Netanyahu: Israel can obtain the benefits of peace and at the same time occupy and marry the Palestinians. Actually, Netanyahu's fantasies of integrating Israel into the Middle East normalizing their relations with regional governments such as Saudi Arabia are nothing more than a mirage born of arrogance and ignorance.
Even if Trump were to negotiate an agreement between the two countries, it would not mean that Israel was really accepted by its neighbors and common people in the region. The efforts of Trump and Biden to integrate Israel into the Middle East under Abraham's agreements without addressing the oppression of Israel of the Palestinians have been followed by the most fatal period in recent history in Palestine/Israel.
Any illusion of peace created by the high fire in Gaza or Abraham's agreements is just that: an illusion. The underlying cause of violence in the region, 77 years of Israeli oppression and dispossession of Palestinians of the Palestinians. At least or until it is addressed, there will never be genuine or lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israelis.
We, like Palestinians, especially the people of Gaza, have suffered too much and suffer horrors that no people should endure. But it must be clear to the Israelis, the Americans and the entire world that we will never give up to injustice, and we will never stop fighting for our freedom.
Trump and Netanyahu's plans for Gaza and the Palestinian people must be categorically rejected by the international community and all people of conscience.
Mustafa Barghouti is the leader and co -founder of the Palestinian National Initiative based in the West in the West.
