The Palestinians have a clear message to Donald Trump on Gaza: “We are here, we will not leave” Yara Hawari
He sent Donald Trump’s first few weeks in his position a clear message: He will support Benjamin Netanyahu’s vision of the constant expulsion of the Palestinians from Gaza.
This was evident even before his incompatible press conference on Tuesday with the Israeli Prime Minister, the first foreign leader to visit the United States since the president’s inauguration. As usual, Trump began his speech by listing all his alleged achievements in the region-many illegal under international law-for his previous mandate, including moving The American embassy on JerusalemRecognition of Israel’s illegal survey of the Syrian Golan, and Ibrahim agreements. Once he finishes awarding prizes for himself, he presented his future management plans for Gaza.
This was followed by a stream of contradictions: He claimed that there would be no rebuilding in Gaza and also claimed that the United States would lead efforts to rebuild; He claimed that the Palestinians would have to leave, then he said that the United States will create job opportunities for all people, and not “just a certain group of people” and that the Palestinians will continue to live there. The cognitive dissonance was clear, and there were moments when Netanyahu looked confused. Trump also put forward the idea of ”ownership” on Gaza – whether it means that the deployment of American forces has not been confirmed or not. The ambiguity surrounding this statement reflects Trump’s usual discourse, but also reflects his recent desires to expand the territory of the United States, including to Canada and Greenland.
Within a week of opening, the Americans were Click on Egypt and Jordan To take the displaced Palestinians by force, in order to “clean” Gaza. While some commentators and journalists in the main media have expressed their anger at the proposal for ethnic cleansing, they easily forget that at the beginning of genocide, the Biden administration was also floating in an idea The Palestinians were expelled to the Egyptians SinaiIn addition to providing the Israeli regime constantly with weapons that helped kill more than 60,000 Palestinians. This type of selective anger over what Trump says in exchange for what the Biden administration has already done is undoubtedly one we will see on repetition in the coming years.
However, it is important, it is necessary to understand this is not just a declaration of ethnic cleansing, but also as a desire to continue the genocide committed by the Israeli regime against the Palestinians in Gaza over the past 16 months. It is equally necessary to recognize how this genocide expands in the West Bank, where the Israeli army is located Refugee camps On the ground and the displacement of thousands of Palestinians. The Jenin Refugee camp, which was borne for weeks by the army, witnessed all its residents expelled by force, killing dozens, including children, and all of them. Biopathy neighborhoods. It is clear that this attack is an attack on the Palestinian life itself, and the goal is very simple: to rid the land of the largest possible number of Palestinians.
In the face of all this, the Palestinians were not negative – just as they were never. Over the past 16 months, the Palestinians in Gaza have also shown us how resistance to genocide appears. They refused to leave their homeland after a tremendous destruction – proverbs that we have not seen in our lives. After Trump’s comments, the Palestinians in Gaza were transferred to a challenge to social media to tell the world’s most powerful leader that they will not leave their lands. For example, a journalist residing in Gaza Abu Bakr Abed wrote: “How can another person decide my future? … We are here. We will not leave.”
This barely surprised. For more than seven decades, the Palestinian people bear the systematic killing, imprisonment and displacement from the homeland of their ancestors by the Israeli regime. However, they fought their teeth and nails. So, while Trump’s comments are collective genocide, it is clear that it reduces the Palestinian design to stay on their soil.
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Yara Hawari is the director of Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network
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