Trump Refers the Question of Evacuating Gaza to Netanyahu!

Author: سليمان أبو ارشيد

It is a bitter irony that war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted for international justice on charges of crimes against humanity, recommends Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, and worse yet, this recommendation is the reward Netanyahu offers his master in the White House for releasing hundreds of tons of bombs, made in America as well, on the heads of children, men, women, and the elderly in Gaza during the genocide that has claimed the lives of 100,000 Palestinians so far, injured hundreds of thousands, and displaced millions, after 80% of the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed.

In our view, Trump is not only an orchestrator of the genocide and other wars that have left devastation in the region but also an architect and legitimizer of the idea of displacing Palestinians from Gaza under the onslaught of Israeli destructive war bombs, and establishing a "Gaza Riviera" on the ruins of their existence. Even if his project has been delayed or stumbled due to the legendary resilience of the people of the Gaza Strip, this does not mean it is the end of the road. The transfer of the question on this matter to Netanyahu during the press conference held alongside the dinner Trump hosted for him on his third visit to Washington was a signal from him to delegate the issue to its relevant stakeholders. Netanyahu's response was that he is working with the United States to find countries willing to absorb the departing Gazans, and that they are nearing finding several countries ready to take them in, describing Trump's plan as a "free choice".

The newspaper "Haaretz" considered Netanyahu's aforementioned response as a mockery of the world's intelligence, while he, along with his defense minister Israel Katz, is working on establishing what they arbitrarily call a "humanitarian city", which is practically a "city of tents" where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will be crammed onto the ruins of the destroyed city of Rafah. The newspaper, based on Israeli political sources, indicates that the goal of this move is to concentrate the majority of the Strip's population in a closed city, where food aid will flow in, and "voluntary migration" will be encouraged, all of which is being coordinated with the United States.

The newspaper states that this is not a humanitarian solution but rather a "transfer", especially when talking about a population under bombardment and enduring water, electricity, medicine shortages, and starvation for twenty months, while discussing the forced relocation of civilians, a process prohibited under international law and considered a war crime.

Israel's stubbornness in its refusal to withdraw from the "Morag" axis, which separates the city of Rafah from the rest of the Gaza Strip, is nothing but a confirmation of its adherence to implementing this scheme, which aims to cram the Strip's residents into the area between the Philadelphi route and the Morag axis, paving the way for the implementation of Trump's displacement scheme.

At a time when killing in the Gaza Strip is transforming from a hobby to an addiction, as expressed by one of the Israeli writers, voices are increasing that describe the "city of tents" in Rafah as a Nazi concentration camp and the Jewish ghetto, where the foreign affairs editor of Channel 12 in Israel had to apologize after he likened what he described as the world's largest tent city established by Israel on the ruins of Rafah to a Nazi concentration camp, saying: when you concentrate people in a tent camp on the rubble and provide them with food, this is nothing but a "concentration camp".

The Israeli cabinet, which unanimously approved the scheme before Netanyahu's trip to Washington, suppressed the attempts of Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to hesitate, as media outlets reported what Netanyahu told him, that he would send ten "D9" bulldozers to prepare the ground for the establishment of the aforementioned tent city, signaling a resolution to the discussion on the matter.

Under the title "The Jewish State Establishes a Ghetto", Gideon Levy characterized the current phase of the war on Gaza as the last stage before "genocide", referring in this context to what Germany did by transferring Jews eastward and to the expulsion of Armenians before the massacre perpetrated against them, at that time also called "evacuation", and now they talk about evacuating southern Gaza.

Levy says that if the last 21 months have not been enough, with children, women, journalists, doctors, and other innocents, the idea of the "ghetto" has ignited all warning lights, as Israel behaves as if it is planning for "genocide" and "transfer", and even if it does not plan, it could slip into that quickly.

Then perhaps Trump will receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and Netanyahu will be crowned as the heir to Ben Gurion, and will be immortalized in Israeli memory as one who completed the ethnic cleansing policy initiated by the founder of the Jewish state in 1948 and rid the world of two million more Palestinians.