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Annexing Gaza, Trump's latest delusion

Writer's picture: Jean-Marc AdolpheJean-Marc Adolphe

Palestinian children line up at a food distribution point in Deir-al-Balah, Gaza Strip, November 28, 2024. Photo Abdel Kareen Hana / AP



In order to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, Trump wants to turn the Palestinian territory into American property.


We keep repeating: Les humanités is not the same old thing. When Donald Trump announced his intention to “clean house” in Gaza by deporting nearly two million Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan, either “temporarily” or “in the long term”, we were practically the only ones in the French press to state in black and white what the purpose of this ethnic cleansing would be: to make way for the transformation of Gaza into a luxury seaside resort (“Trump wants to turn Gaza into a seaside resort”, published on January 26).


Donald Trump and Benyamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference in Washington, February 4, 2025. AP photo


Things are becoming clearer. Last night, at the end of a joint press conference with Benyamin Netanyahu, Trump confirmed in no uncertain terms his intention to make Gaza “the Riviera of the Middle East” (see Associated Press).


In his role as a doormat devoted to the leader's delusions, Secretary of State Marco Rubio added another layer on Elon Musk's propaganda social network: "Gaza MUST BE LIBERATED from Hamas. As [the US President] said today, the United States is ready to take the lead and make Gaza beautiful again“ [”make Gaza beautiful again”, in the original version of the message].


But how do we get there? Trump already has the answer: “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a goog job with it too”. In other words: deploy the U.S. army in Gaza and turn it into U.S. property (“I see a situation of long-term [U.S.]ownership ” of the Gaza Strip), as if it were a mere extension of Mar-a-Lago, Trump's private residence (where, incidentally, Cyril Hannouna has just been invited to dinner on February 22 by the American president, to “talk about freedom of expression”).


In his delusion of omnipotence, Trump even invented himself as a spokesman for Saudi Arabia, which, purportedly, would have approved his proposal. This claim was promptly denied by the Saudi Foreign Ministry: “ the position of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the creation of a Palestinian state is firm and unwavering”. Egypt, Jordan and other US allies in the Middle East have also warned Trump that transferring Palestinians from Gaza would threaten the stability of the Middle East, risk spreading the conflict and undermine the decades-long efforts of the US and its allies to achieve a two-state solution.


Even in his own camp, Trump's delusions do not meet with unanimous approval. Lindsey Graham, Republican senator from South Carolina and a Trump ally, soberly commented: "We'll see what our Arab friends say about this. But I think most South Carolinians are probably not enthusiastic about sending Americans to take over Gaza. I think that could be problematic. Without taking so many gloves off, Connecticut's Democratic senator, Chris Murphy, declared for his part that Trump had “completely lost his mind”: "He wants the United States to invade Gaza, which would cost thousands of American lives and put the Middle East up in blood and flames for 20 years? It's sickening".


There remains one final problem: deporting almost 2 million inhabitants is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple. What about human rights? Don't worry: also yesterday, Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the UN Human Rights Council (the text of the order also suspends all US funding to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees)...


The new Master of the World (or at least, the one who thinks he is) doesn't like it too much when, in the name of such nonsense as human rights, people get in his way. At the time, Hitler wouldn't have liked it either...

 

Jean-Marc Adolphe

(translated from French by Maria Damcheva. Original source HERE)

 

Parce que vous le valez bien, les humanités, ce n'est pas pareil. Alors, soutenez, soutenez (dons défiscalisables ou abonnements), il en restera bien quelque chose. ICI

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