Diplomatic reporter
President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States can “take over” and “possess” Gaza, which resettle its residents in this process, has been shocked and condemned.
Comments come as a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, and amid questions about the future of Gaza after the conflict.
The United Nations estimates about two thirds of the buildings that were destroyed or damaged after 15 months of fighting.
Trump’s mysterious proposal can indicate the largest transformation in American policy in the Middle East for decades, which increases a large -scale international consensus on the need for a Palestinian state – consisting of Gaza and the occupied West Bank – alongside Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the idea “deserves attention to” but it was highly rejected by Arab nations and some American allies.
Why did Donald Trump said this now?
If Donald Trump is right in one thing, then this is that contracts of American diplomacy over Israel and the Palestinians failed to resolve the conflict.
The proposals of peace and presidents came and went, but the problems have faded. Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 and the war in Gaza, which it raised was the hideous results.
Trump made his millions as a real estate developer, and with this hat, he made a completely valid note: if it is possible to rebuild Gaza, from scratch in some places, it is not logical that hundreds of thousands of civilians be veiled in passengers.
The task of rebuilding Gaza will be huge. Ammunition and mountains should be removed from the debris. Water and energy lines should be repaired. Schools, hospitals and shops must be rebuilt.
Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Wittouf, said this may take years – and while this continues, the Palestinians will need to go somewhere.
However, instead of exploring ways to keep them close to the house, it is almost certain in the camps in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, Trump says they should be encouraged to leave – permanently.
Trump believes that in their absence, the Popular “Riviera in the Middle East” will rise from ash, providing thousands of jobs, investment opportunities, and eventually, the place of “the people of the world to live.”
Why Trump’s controversial comments?
Where do you start?
Even for the president who spent most of his first term in the eastern United States – including moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights – this was an amazing proposal.
In the fiercest of their imagination, no American president has never believed that resolving the Israeli -Palestinian conflict would include assuming a large part of the Palestinian territories and spoiling its inhabitants.
To be clear, doing so by force will be a serious violation of international law.
Some Palestinians may choose to leave Gaza and rebuild their lives elsewhere. Since October 2023, up to 150,000 already.
But others cannot or do not, either because they lack the financial means to do this or because their association with Gaza – part of the land they call Palestine – is simply very strong.
Many Ghazan are ancestors of people who fled or were driven by their homes in 1948 during the establishment of the State of Israel – a period called by the Palestinians Nakba, the Arabic word of the catastrophe.
Thinking about another person will be very painful for many, and they will cling to their reduced life in the rest of Gaza with fierce design.
For the Palestinians who dream of their own, alongside Israel, the loss of part of it will feel as if it was amputated.
Gaza has been physically separated from the West Bank since 1948. The previous rounds of negotiations, as well as the “Peace Vision” of Trump, included plans for tunnels or railways that may link the two.
Now Trump tells the Palestinians to give up Gaza once and forever.
Although it does not seem to defend the forced deportation of civilians – against international law – Trump clearly encourages the Palestinians to leave.
Palestinian officials have already accused Israel of banning the supply of tens of thousands of caravans that could help Ghazan to stay in less damaged parts of the region during the reconstruction elsewhere.
The Arab countries that Trump says to accept up to 1.8 million refugees in Ghazan, especially Egypt and Jordan, have expressed their anger.
Both have enough problems without this added burden.
What is the current situation of Gaza?
Egypt occupied Gaza for 19 years before Israel seized it in the 1967 war.
Israel still considers it under international law, which collapses Israel. She says that the occupation ended in 2005, when it dismantled the Jewish settlements unilaterally and withdrew its army.
About three quarters of the United Nations members recognize Gaza as part of the sovereign state of Palestine, although the United States does not do so.
It was cut off from the outside world due to the Israeli walls and the Israeli marine siege, who never felt that it was a truly independent place.
Nothing nor no one moves inward or outside without Israel’s permission, and an international airport – was opened in a lot of noise in 1998 – by Israel in 2001 during the second Palestinian uprising.
Israel and Egypt imposed the siege on Gaza, citing security reasons, after Hamas won the Palestinian elections in 2006 and removed its competitors from the region after the severe fighting the following year.
A long time before the recent war, the Palestinians considered Gaza an open prison.
Can Trump control Gaza if he wants to do so?
It goes without saying that the United States does not have a legal demand for the region and it is not clear at all how Trump intends to impose American rule.
As with his upcoming allegations about the control of the United States over Greenland or the Panama channel, it was not yet clear whether Trump really means this or whether the comments represent the position of opening negotiations, before a set of negotiations in the future of Gaza.
Various plans for post -war governance in Gaza have been discussed.
In December, the main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, agreed to form a joint committee to supervise its administration – an agreement that has not reached anything yet.
At other times, discussions focused on establishing an international peacekeeping force, and may consist of forces from Arab countries.
Last month, Reuters reported that the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Israel discussed the formation of a temporary administration in Gaza until the reformed Palestinian Authority (PA), which already had control in parts of the West Bank, was ready to take over.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly insisted that the Palestinian Authority will have no role in the post -war administration in Gaza.
In a limited sense, American shoes are already on the ground. An American security company has worked about 100 preceding American special forces for the human being, a vital checkpoint south of Gaza City, and the vehicles of the Palestinians, who return to the north, have derived weapons.
Egyptian security personnel were also seen at the same checkpoint.
These can be the first, initial signs of an extensive international presence – and possibly led by the United States – in Gaza.
But this is hardly the acquisition of the United States, something that requires widespread military intervention in the Middle East – a kind of things that Trump has long told voters that he wants to avoid.
Can there be traces of a ceasefire on Israel important?
Negotiations began in the second stage of the ceasefire two weeks ago between Israel and Hamas barely, but it is difficult to see how Trump’s bomb notes will help.
If Hamas feels that the final producer of this entire process is Gaza is deadly – not only without Hamas, but among all the Palestinians – it may conclude that there is nothing that can be talked about and adheres to the remaining hostages that took it on October 7, 2023.
Netanyahu’s critics accused him of searching for excuses for bombing negotiations and resuming war. They are committed to the conclusion that with these comments, Trump is a ready partner.
On the other hand, the right -wing supporters of the Israeli Prime Minister expressed his consent of the acquisition plan in the United States, which may reduce the risk of the resignation of the cabinet and make Netanyahu’s direct political future more guaranteed.
In this sense, Trump Netanyahu gave a strong incentive to keep the ceasefire.
What did Donald Trump say about the West Bank?
When asked whether he agreed that the United States should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, Trump said he has not taken a position yet, but he will have an advertisement within four weeks.
This observation caused the warning of the Palestinians, who will inevitably be considered another nail in the coffin for a two -state solution.
The realization of the legitimacy of Israel’s settlements in the West Bank will be a great dependency step. Most of the rest of the world consider them illegal under international law, although Israel opposes this.
During the previous rounds of peace talks, the negotiators realized that Israel would get large settlement blocks as part of a final agreement, perhaps in exchange for small pieces of Israeli territory.
In 2020, Trump mediated the Ibrahim agreements, which obtained the historical normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates (Emirates) and Bahrain.
The United Arab Emirates has signed that the agreement to understand Israel will not include parts of the West Bank – an understanding that may now be in danger.
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