US president Donald Trump has announced that the United States intends to take control of the Gaza lane. According to him, the Palestinians should settle permanently, and the United States would rebuild Gaza.
– I don’t want cute. I don’t want to wise, but the Middle Eastern Riviera could be something really wonderful, Trump said after meeting Israel Prime Minister in Washington.
This thing tells you if Trump Gaza’s proposal makes any sense.
1. Trump has been paving for his proposal earlier
Trump has previously talked about the transfer of Gaza elsewhere. His son -in -law has also talked about real estate to be built in the area.
Trump’s Gaza proposal is a continuation of his Middle East’s Peace Plan in 2020. At that time, he envisioned how investments and construction would help Gaza flourish. Palestinians’ forced transfers were not part of the plan.
A year ago also Trump’s son -in -law Jared Kushner praised the possible value of Gaza’s seaside properties. Kushner pondered Harvard University In an interview with the Middle East program, the idea that Israel could move people elsewhere and clear the area.
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2. Trump’s proposal is unprecedented
Donald Trump has already presented imperialist ideas for connecting the Greenland, Canada and Panama Canal to the United States. In Gaza, his thinking goes even further.
Population’s forced transfer from Gaza would be contrary to international laws. That would be ethnic cleaning.
In conflicts, the civilian population may not be expelled or exhausted from the occupied area unless their own safety requires it.
Despite the ban, there are more than 122 million people who have escaped for conflicts, persecution or violence, says UN statistics from 2024.
The Gaza proposal is also unprecedented from Trump because he is now considering sending the US Army to the area. In practice, Gaza would become a US colonial.
3. Trump can implement his proposal with the power of
Despite the opposition, Trump can try to roll through it. Trump has already shown in the first days of his term that he does not work in a contract -based world.
Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza and transform the area into an attractive construction site is so exceptional that it does not find an example of history, says US researcher.
– Under international law, they cannot do this, but then the question is what countries could prevent this from happening, political researcher Benjamin Radd The University of California says to Reuters news agency.
Radd also says that it is possible that Trump has already been secretly negotiating with the Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia.
4. Trump would need for exhaust transfers the help of neighboring states
The biggest problem in the proposal is that no Middle East country has declared to be willing to accept the Palestinians and they do not want to leave.
Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanjahu are talking over the head of the Palestinians, says the Middle Eastern researcher Timo R. Stewart.
“Washington wants to decide on the transfer of millions of Palestinians, rather than even pretending to be heard of them,” Stewart says.
There are about 2.1 million people in Gaza. According to Trump, they should move to Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere in the region.
There is already in the world about seven million Palestinian or their descendants who have had to leave their homes. Most of them live in the area of Gaza.
5. Just nobody supports Trump’s proposal
The proposal is a pleasant to the extreme of the Israeli right, which has long been driven by the expulsion of the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also expressed his support for Trump.
Virtually everyone else opposes the idea: Western partners in the United States, Arab countries and Palestinian administration.
Hamas, an extreme organization in Gaza, said today that the proposal would incite violence in the Middle East.
In the United States, politicians are also critical of the vision. Opponents can also be found in Trump’s own party Republicans. At its extreme, the proposal would take American soldiers to Gaza.