Afrasianet - US President Donald Trump is adding Gaza to the list of areas he wants to "seize" recently, in a precedent that some have described as "moral bankruptcy" and others have called it "pure madness", but it stems from a pattern of thought in which Trump embodies his complete bias towards Israel.
In his meeting in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took more than he expected when President Trump spoke to him about "permanently evacuating Gaza of all Palestinians," which he failed to do by force of fire and carnage.
Trump presented this "fantasy" argument to the Israeli prime minister, who has been issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for possible war crimes in Gaza, and to Israel, which is being tried before the International Court of Justice for genocide against the Palestinian people.
Netanyahu returned ecstatic from Washington's trip where he was supposed to bow to pressure from the US president, with another gift after his host imposed sanctions on the ICC itself, declaring a "national emergency to deal with the threat it poses."
Given his remarks before and after arriving at the White House, President Trump's proposal to "cleanse Gaza" of Palestinians was not outside the storms he provoked by talking about buying or seizing Greenland, annexing Canada, restoring the Panama Canal — by force if necessary — renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, and imposing tariffs, tariffs and sanctions in all directions.
Earth.. Just another investment
By the facts of history, geography, and the nature of the protracted conflict, Gaza is not Greenland or Panama, and the New York Times columnist Peter Baker (January 5) notes in his comment on Trump's decision on Gaza that the US president "in his second term in the White House is putting forward brazen ideas about redrawing the world map along the lines of nineteenth-century imperialism."
In his approach, the US president evokes a purely American legacy when he talks about the displacement of Gazans and the establishment of the "Riviera of the Middle East", as the idea of removing a people and seizing its historical lands is related to real estate deals of the kind that appeals to them as a real estate developer, an idea that accompanied those coming to the New World after Christopher Columbus, and also accompanied the Zionist movement and its settlement project in Palestine.
The United States did not arise as a homeland, but as a homeland or "melting furnace" – like Israel – and was originally based on a theory of utility or interest that is not based on moral rules, history, or respect for the right or roots of the people.
Virginia on the East Coast was the first citizen to migrate to the New World. The city and then the entire state were named after the company founded by European adventurers, expatriates, fugitives, dreamers, and partners in the Old World, and its business expanded tremendously, at the expense of the indigenous population. The land was just an overseas investment project.
The owners of the land - the American Indians - seemed an obstacle, but these companies are not amenable to civilizing or serving those who pounced on them from the East, nor to engage in the fever of the New World that undermined their old world, so the idea of extermination, displacement and seizure of land appeared by expansion as far as the horses of those coming from the East and the power of their weapons and the abundance of their bullets, which is also what the Zionist movement did under Western auspices in Palestine.
Later, the American state was established by force of arms and ethnic cleansing, then expansion and purchase, and then by a mighty power of capital made by enormous resources, thanks to the "thieving barons", as the famous English historian Paul Johnson calls them in the book "Colossus" published in New York in 2001, which means the large owners of companies who controlled the decision and the state.
The United States has become a "hyperpower" country with unlimited resources, inheriting ancient empires, decomposed of history, emotions, the strength of the bonds that bind people or a nation to a homeland or land, or identity in its cumulative historical sense.
Therefore, neither Trump nor other American presidents understand to varying degrees the emotional attachment of the Palestinians to their land, history and holy sites, nor do they understand the attachment of the American Indians to their land, and they do not like to talk about the past except fabricated Israeli myths, but rather they like to talk about the future from their point of view, and the logic of benefit and interest as a result of the United States experience in its emergence.
A gift to Israel
Analysts describe Trump as more "extreme" in antagonizing the Palestinian right than his predecessor, Joe Biden , who considered himself a "Zionist", and the Trump administration - according to them - aims to change the scene in the region more radically, and liquidate the Palestinian cause.
The Biden administration has supported Israel in its brutal war on Gaza, while Trump "crudely" completes the task of "clearing Gaza" of its Palestinian population and relocating them to Sinai, Jordan, or elsewhere.
Trump's statements during his election campaign – in a seemingly acceptable way – about stopping the war, or pressuring Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire before his inauguration, were just a contradiction to his Democratic predecessor, who gave Israel everything, but did not dare to imagine the proposal made by Trump.
In his first term (2017-2021), Trump gave Israel more than it was waiting for, when he recognized Jerusalem as the "unified and eternal capital of the Jewish state" and recognized its illegal annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan, and during his reign settlement expansion in theWest Bank reached its peak, and during his reign it was granted the "deal of the century" that left the White House without completing its pillars, as he envisioned it.
Trump returns in his second term with a plan to "seize" that deal, which has not been completed in a more "brutal" way, and thus he is not only denying history, violating international law or torpedoing the "two-state solution", but he is trying - according to analysts - to destroy the entire Palestinian existence and the entire issue.
Haley Sweifer, chief executive of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said: "The idea that the United States will take over Gaza is not only extreme, it is completely detached from reality. In what world does this happen?".
U.S. presidents have been absolutely supportive of Israel, but none of them dared to say that "Israel seems too small on the map, and I've always thought about how it can be expanded," or calling for the displacement and occupation of its population, ideas that Trump is completely out of the box.
Peter Baker, a political analyst at the New York Times, said, "President Trump was enjoying Netanyahu's praise for his willingness to think outside the box, but when it came to Gaza, Mr. Trump's thinking was so out of the box that it wasn't clear that he even knew there was a box."
Netanyahu returned ecstatic from his trip to Washington after Trump talked about the displacement of its people (Anatolia)
"Absurdity" and extreme pressure
While Israel welcomed Trump's announcement, his statements sparked an international storm of criticism and outrage, noting in their entirety that he denies the principle of a two-state solution, peace and the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, and violates international law as a plan for forced displacement.
For its part, the United Nations stressed that "international law prohibits any deportation or forced transfer of a population living on occupied territory," while the European Union stressed that "Gaza is an integral part of the future Palestinian state."
Democratic lawmakers launched an attack on President Trump, with Representative Chris Murphy saying Trump had "completely lost his mind," and Representative Jake O'Chinkos calling the Trump's announcement "reckless and unreasonable."
Analysts considered that Trump's "sudden and improvised statements" are not verifiable, and are nothing more than a kind of "maximum pressure" policy that he has exerted in recent days in all directions, and that his statement Friday that he is in no hurry to implement the plan to control Gaza comes in this direction.
Netanyahu may be the biggest winner from Trump's statements temporarily, as they provided him with a roof of safety in his internal crisis, and gave him a margin to circumvent the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and perhaps resume his war on Gaza, and freed his hand in the West Bank, but the widespread international rejection of the Trump plan confirms the growing momentum of the Palestinian cause and proves the steadfastness of the people of the Gaza Strip, which President Trump sees as just an investable "waterfront" and whose people see history, identity and irreplaceable homeland.