What the US president has proposed for Gaza, before the cameras, is not a relocation of the Palestinian population in neighboring countries without more, is a forced displacement, a crime that violates international law. It is not a reconstruction, it is a will to do business at the expense of looting, colonialism and genocide.
It is not a redevelopment or a “real estate transaction”, as it has called: it is an ethnic cleaning framed in a process of dispossession, apartheid and mass murders initiated decades ago. It is a plan that neighboring Arab governments have been publicly opposed, but in which the US president insists, as a form of pressure.
Ethnic cleaning does not start today
What Trump raises is not new, it is part of the objectives of important sectors of Israeli policy. The Likud party, created in the 1970s currently led by Netanyahu, includes In your documents foundational the consideration of the “Jewish law” “eternal and indisputable” to “the earth” of the historical Palestine. Other Israeli political organizations also claim the illegal occupation and annexation of the Palestinian territory, which implies more forced displacement of the Palestinian population. This is the case of religious parties to which some ministers belong today.
But also with Israel Labor governments carried out a colonial plan that involved the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians in 1948 – the Nakba – and another 350,000 in 1967, in addition to the illegal occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the High Golán Sirios, which arrives until today. To this is added the multiplication of illegal settlements in the last thirty years and the development of an apartheid regime against the Palestinians that oppresses them and encourages their expulsion.
Ethnic cleaning and forced displacement have been on the table of the current Israeli Zionist project, as part of the objective to expand territory and maintain a Jewish majority in the so -called Great Israel.
Israeli illegal occupation, combined with a Jewish majority, is only possible with expulsion, killings or apartheid
The illegal Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory, combined with a Jewish majority, is only possible with another massive expulsion of the Palestinian population or through an apartheid regime that denies basic rights.
This was expressed, for example, the Israeli Sergio Yahni in 2007, in an interview I did in Jerusalem, and whose story story in one of the chapters of the book The wet man does not fear the rain. Yahni was a member of that minority – which has been reduced more and more – contrary to illegal occupation and in favor of rights for all, not only for Israelis:
“Israel can only be a Jewish state if it maintains the demographic or legal supremacy of the Jewish population, but for this it has or to carry out a new ethnic cleaning, such as 1948, or practicing legalized ethnic segregation, that is, the Apartheid We must assume that this is very harmful to the Palestinians and also for the Israelis. While Israel does not boost a true democratic transformation, we will not live in peace and will continue the repression. ”
Several Israeli ministers already publicly proposed in 2023 the expulsion of Gaza’s Palestinian population
Hamas attacks in October 2023 were interpreted by sectors of the Israeli government as an opportunity to boost that ethnic cleaning. That is why Netanyahu did not prioritize the release of Israeli hostages or a Negotiated output And he opted for mass destruction and “a holy war of annihilation” That is why when Israel ordered the massive displacement of the people of northern Gaza to the south many voices we noticed the risk of a new nakba.
“There is a serious danger that what we are witnessing can be a Nakba repetition of 1948 and of the Naksa of 1967, but on a larger scale, ”UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warned. In case there was any doubt, as also expressed by several members of the Government of Tel Aviv.
A report by the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, filtered to the press, proposed Already in 2023 the expulsion of the population of Gaza. The Foreign Vice Minister went further and expressed it publicly, saying that the Palestinians should settle In the Egyptian Sinai. “We will create cities of tents,” he said. Along the same lines, the Minister of Agriculture and former Chief of Shin Bet, Avi Dichter, indicated that the Nakba in Gaza was being displayed. Gaza Nakba 2023this is how it will end. ”
The extracted lesson is that great crimes can be supported as long as you do not talk about it
The financing of the eeuu genocide
All this was known by the Biden government. The US former president did not publicly defend the expulsion of the Population of Gaza, but did provide for fifteen months military aid packages to Israel -by value of tens of billions of dollars-, diplomatic protection and political support. With this, he financed and facilitated the genocide, the devastation, the massacre of more than 61,000 people and the forced displacement of almost two million. This result is what Trump now uses as an excuse to raise the temporary or definitive transfer of the population, that is, ethnic cleaning.
In addition, the US president has sanctioned the International Criminal Court this week. But nothing starts today. The Biden government criticized the Court of The Hague, accused her of acting improperly for investigating Israeli crimes, He denied his jurisdiction In this matter, he described as “outrageous” His arrest warrant against Netanyahu and said that “he would work in the direction” of Apply sanctions Against her. Both Biden and its Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, They positioned Publicly against the Court and no one from that government, nor the vice president, was distanced from that position.
For all this, the great global conversation in international human rights circuits revolves, for months, around the damage that causes the extension of Israeli impunity, achieved through the active support of the United States, which Israel conceives as its colonial platform in the East Half.
If it has come here it is because Washington continued to support Israel in full genocide, actively contributing to its development. If it has come here, it is because the European Union keeps its commercial relations intact with Israel and has not suspended trade and investments that contribute to Israeli illegal occupation, as requests The opinion of the International Court of Justice last July. If it has come here it is because several European governments – Germany to the head – have continued to justify the attacks against civilians.
The Biden government said to be willing to work to sanction the Court of The Hague and positioned itself against its orders
If it has come here, it is because the US assigns Israel, for more than three decades, the greatest annual military aid that provides a country: 3.8 billion euros a year, despite the fact that at that time the number has been tripled of settlements and settlers, and despite the successive mint of civilians in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2019, 2021.
Donald Trump is not comparable to any other previous president, but it is worth asking why in numerous sectors his words have caused much more stir than the action of genocide itself. The extracted lesson is that great crimes can be planned, supporting or facilitating as long as it does not talk about it or does not have carelessness and sadism.
As long as all the facts are assumed, the necessary roads will not be addressed for a solution. Outside our bubble, in the global south, there are many men and women who know well the dynamics of western geopolitics, because it is written about their own body, about their own skin. The crimes committed against them throw the story of the western garden and the narration of good colonizers and occupants against the native barbarians.
The resistance that exists in sectors of politics and journalism to recognize this reality is one of the greatest threats we face: that of the disability of the global north to be observed honestly in front of the mirror.
Destruction is an industry in itself -Armas, military technology, AI- and, after it, the ‘Security and Reconstruction’ contracts arrive
Trump’s shock strategy
What is announced by Trump is part of its ‘shock and dread’ strategy, used to create shock and negotiate with advantage. Before his words, Netanyahu smiled and nodded, triumphant, showing that the possibility of expulsion has always been there. The US president launches orders with which any other lower demand, subsequently, will seem relief.
He says that politics conceives as a business. He assures that the US will take control of Gaza and build homes in “The Riviera de Oriente Middle”, after removing debris and paving the terrain. Destruction is an industry in itself: it increases the benefits of arms, military technology and even companies in artificial intelligence. In addition, after it, contracts for security and reconstruction, two euphemisms to cover up neocolonialism and looting arrive. Trump verbalizes it and boasts it.
In Gaza, US military contractors already operate, and several investors bet on the illegal occupation for their enrichment. This is the case of Jared Kushner, son -in -law of Trump, who recently doubled his participation in a Israeli finance firm present in illegal settlements Israelis of the Golán Altos Syrians and the West Bank, and that benefits from the extension of illegal annexation.
For seventy -six years the Palestinian population has resisted its expulsion, illegal annexation, continued Nakba. The return of hundreds of thousands of people from southern Gaza to the North shows their resilience. 80% of the population of the Strip comes from families expelled from their lands in 1948. Since then they keep the keys of their houses stolen and appropriate by Israelis, through the Law of Absent Assets. That expulsion shocked his life and marks his biographies.
As the American Palestinian lawyer Noura Erakat has said this week, “the Palestinians belong to Palestine. They have survived 76 years of Nakba and fifteen months in their cruelest phase. They survived to return to their homes, stay and prosper. His ability to do it depends on us. ” However, inaction remains the norm, although now, with Trump, suddenly the genocide becomes too genocide.
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