Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Gaza for the US? You cannot be serious!

Yesterday I was wondering how long Marco Rubio would survive as US secretary of state. Today I'm wondering whether Marco Rubio will last another week! Did Trump warn him that he was going to announce his plan for the US to take over Gaza and for the two million Palestinians to be relocated to Egypt and Jordan? Or was this off the cuff after chatting to Benjamin Netanyahu who, presumably was tickled pink by the idea. No Palestinian citizens or Hamas terrorists in Gaza? Yes, he must have agreed with Trump that that was a really good idea. But was Marco Rubio told beforehand and is he ready to go forth and carry oput his master's wishes? Of course the whole concept is against international law and sounds like wholesale ethnic cleansing. The only thing that Trump got right was that the Gaza Strip is a total mess. There are no homes for the Palestinians to go back to. So while the destroyed buildings are bulldozed to form new foundations, where will the Palestinians go? They will have to be relocated while all their houses are rebuilt, and Egypt and Jordan are the obvious places. But that is one thing. It's quite another for Trump to suggest that the real estate boys should move in and turn Gaza into a Mediterranean resort for the rich. It'll never happen, of course, but I think there's a hidden message here. The message is for Hamas. Trump agrees with Netanyahu that Hamas must be obliterated for ever. So why not move everyone out of Gaza, including the estimated 13,000 Hamas survivors, and tuck them away somewhere else and only allow any of them back into a rebuilt Gaza if they are disarmed and given identity cards? Could that be what Trump and Netanyahu have in mind? It's still ethnic cleansing.

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