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Trump’s plan in Gaza has stumbled on the world. Did you mean it? Now, this does not matter Martin Kittel


R.The comments were rude, frightening, dirty, bold, and much, simply obscene. “Supéfance Mondaye” was how the French paper responded on Wednesday morning. The New York Times newspaper has a “unlikely” unbearable side. The American Senator gave a voice to what will definitely become a shield in the Middle East and beyond in the coming hours and days, and this is what Donald Trump said about Gaza as an “ethnic cleansing in another name.”

On Tuesday, at the end of his meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump announced that the United States must control the Gaza Strip and remove its 2.2 million Palestinian populations to resettle it in places such as Egypt and Jordan. Trump said the United States “owns it and is responsible.” He added: “We will take it and develop it.” There will be “unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for” the people of the region ” – although the people who will accuse them are not identified. Gaza will be transferred to “Riviera for the Middle East”.

It was, at least, at least, the movement of another flat ball to a region that suffered from the massacre and destruction since Hamas’s terrible attack on Israel in October 2023, which led to 16 months of Israeli attacks on Gaza. It is not surprising, he was immediately confronted by one of the main players in any search for solutions. Within hours, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia rejected the Palestinian displacement plan, with a reaffirmation that it will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel – so far, one of Trump’s goals in the political Middle East – without establishing a Palestinian state.

This leaves this fragile ceasefire currently ongoing between Hamas and Israel is difficult to calculate. Negotiations on the second stage of the ceasefire agreement is about to start next week, including the United States, Israel, Hamas, Egypt and Qatar. Their declared goal is to agree on more hostages and prisoners, which is an unspecified extension of the current limited engineering of time and an agreement on those who rule Gaza.

Trump’s comments throw this last part of the second stage negotiations in the air. It also disrupts the rest of the process. But the risks are very high. The Israeli war can resume in a week if there is no agreement. This is the result that Netanyahu may prefer, the undisputed beneficiary of Trump’s free Trump, because he will carry his afflicted government together. The right -wing Israeli parties, some of which are Gaza as part of Israel in any case, will witness that Trump’s statements are a turning point in its favor, with traces on the West Bank as well. The Palestinians will Look at betrayal.

The collapsed buildings along the Softwe Street in Gabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2025. Photo: Omar’s age/Avene

Trump’s statements were caught by the United States and the world on the jump. But they did not completely come from blue. Before returning to the White House, Trump sometimes made similar comments. He said Gaza was a “huge demolition site”, immediately after its inauguration in January. It is a great location on the sea – the best weather. You know, everything is good. It is like, some beautiful things can be done with it. “

This looked like the Voice of the US Royal Dear Trump instead of US President Trump. The same was true in his comments on Tuesday. However, Trump always wipes the personality and political. It would be a mistake to believe that it is not, at some level, dangerous. Just last week, Trump sent his envoy in the Middle East, Steve Whitchov, a billionaire real estate developer, to hold the first visit to Gaza by an American official since the beginning of the war.

No one should reduce the importance of the trick and distraction in a snowstorm of the current Trump of trauma and advertisements on multiple topics in addition to the Middle East. However, for the president who came to his post in 2017, who did so now again after eight years, and pledged on both occasions to put the United States first, the notes on Tuesday were amazing with severe consequences if they were at all become a dangerous policy.

Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, American foreign policy has been heard in interference, engagement and occupation, especially in the Middle East itself. At that time, American forces sometimes played major roles, often under the radar or simply from the sky, in conflicts ranging from Libya to Syria, as well as in Afghanistan. But Trump’s international virtual position has always been removing American forces from the fire line, while others – as with Europe in Ukraine – demanded to increase their own obligations.

On Tuesday, though, Trump seemed open to the idea that the American forces would be deployed to impose the idea of ​​occupying it in Gaza. American forces are supposed to be responsible for attempts to remove the Palestinians by force. It challenges the belief that imagining that such an operation, which challenges without shyness to international law, and the involvement of tens of thousands of military personnel, will not participate in the United States forces in confrontation and losses, and if Iraq is any evidence, the accusations of human rights violations against the local population. Exactly the type of participation abroad, in other words, Trump has always said he opposes.

However, Trump’s second term is already different. It is very remarkable, and with Gaza’s observations on the latest example, it began to talk about the language of imperialism. He threatened to take over Greenland, restore the Panama Channel, the Canadian Attaché, and to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and now, to seize Gaza. It may be decided next week to transfer the Palestinians to Newfoundland.

The decisive question is whether any of this means seriously. “This was not a slight decision,” Trump said on Tuesday. However, it lacks detail and is not understood by its nature as an actual policy, and perhaps the president himself can certainly say that one American soldier will serve in Gaza or one US dollar is invested in developing the waterfront as well.

Moreover, seriousness can come in various forms, as Trump’s second presidency appears. Trump may not really want to occupy Gaza at all; But the fact that he said that it may be in itself a fact that other facts are returned in the Middle East and in local American policy.

In less than three weeks since she was sworn again, Trump has proven himself more wonderful politician than he was in chaotic circumstances in his first term. The dedicator of its presidential illness may be truly changing the United States, or the public may simply distract the thinking that they change it. The difference may be less than we assume.

In political culture dominated by social media instead of legislative and legal procedures, giving the impression, even in an unbearable state like Gaza, is actually more powerful and more submitted than the exact policy -making type prefer by governments such as Kiir Starmer. Trump may not hand over many millions who voted in his favor, but his ability to persuade them that he does this illuminates a worrying light in the future policy.

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