Creating a New Palestinian Haven

 

"The United States will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too"

"We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs."

"We have a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside of the Gaza Strip, and for the U.S. to take "ownership" in redeveloping the war-torn territory into] the Riviera of the Middle East."

U.S President Donald J. Trump

Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office at the White House. Photograph: Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock

A bold new vision for the Middle East emerges with the change of presidency in the United States; a proposed move that visualizes moving an entire population away from its familiar landscape which that same population has perpetually failed to develop into its potential as an economic, thriving and self-reliant nation, a population that mourns the fact that it has not  yet achieved national status, but one whose leaders consistently and adamantly reject peace with its neighbour, a condition required before statehood. 

As a lightbulb aspiration, to separate two warring populations; one accused of 'occupation' of the second on the basis of its being forced to deploy its military in attack-prevention mode against its citizens from the neighbour's never-ending efforts at violent and lethal expressions of rejection of their presence on their very own Judaic ancestral geography, willing to share it in part with the other which rejects such offers in favour of destroying the established state entirely.

 

There is logic in separation. Where the violently covetous group can move to another geographical location, there to found its final place of residence as people have been doing since time immemorial. Leaving the continuously assaulted nation to live in peace and enjoy the prosperity it has worked for over the generations, a prosperity that Palestinians shunned in favour of continuing to live on the charitable generosity of a world that both pities and wonders at its lack of  dignity in refusing to raise itself to a level of independence through strategic and worthwhile devotion to proving itself capable of self-determination, advancing its own future, not that of the status of refugees.

 

Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani attends a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025.  (AP Photo/Khaled Elfiqi)

To the Arab world at large, the suggestion is one of forced displacement in favour of  giving a non-Arab nation breathing room to continue developing and thriving as it can and it must. That this represents a deliberately blinkered form of hypocrisy is more than obvious to even the casual eye. The Palestinian population which has grown in numbers through procreation supported by global charity refused to surrender its dedication to violent attacks on its neighbour. A separation solution fails to sit well with its Arab brethren despite that those same nations sharing the Middle East have no interest in nor intention of giving Palestinians a portion of their own large territories. 

 

The Syrian Civil war which began in 2011 and continues in some form to this day eliminated a half-million Syrians in a tribal/sectarian war. Far more Syrians were displaced during the conflict than would be the case with Palestinians leaving the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a man who rivalled Iraq's Saddam Hussein in butchery, retained its legitimacy with the Arab League, despite chemical-gassing and barrel-bombing its citizens.  

Saudi Arabia, in response to President Trump's announcement of  his intention to clear Palestinians out of an unlivable environment their very own actions created in attacking Israel, rejects the prospect of Palestinians leaving the territory to strike out as refugees to find a welcoming home elsewhere, where they can shed their lethal antipathy to Jewish Israel, and focus on building lives for themselves and their offspring. Saudi Arabia's retort that its insistence on a Palestinian state is "firm, steadfast and unwavering" might think of generously extending a gift of land out of a portion of the vast geography of Arabia it holds.

 

In the same token, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Britain and others who deplore such a recommendation as Mr. Trump's might consider how attractive it might be for them to live alongside a neighbour constantly plotting to murder their citizens as a symptom of racial disaffection. They are so obligated in their support of the Palestinians, it might behoove them to offer space sliced out of their own geographic holdings and enjoy the penchant of Palestinian leaders to foment disorder. 

 

"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also stresses what it had previously announced regarding its absolute rejection of infringement on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, whether through Israeli settlement policies, annexation of Palestinian lands or efforts to displace the Palestinian people from their land", offered Saudi Arabia which in an tribal contest ousted the Hashemite tribe in Arabia so the House of Saud could have  unobstructed and  unchallenged conquest, necessitating the migration of Hashemites to Jordan to found their kingdom there.

 

"The comments last night [Mr.Trump's solution for the Palestinians] were, of course, very concerning. I always adopt the approach when it comes to the U.S. administration of: judge them based on what they do and not what they say", remarked Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin, a man whose loathing of Israel comes close to matching the Palestinians'. He might consider inviting them to make their home in Ireland; a match made in their version of Heaven. 

Trump's proposal on "deportation from Gaza is not something that either the region or we would accept. Even thinking about it, in my opinion is wrong and absurd", stated Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in an interview with the state-run Anadola Agency. Turkey, of course, infamously created its own version of genocide against Armenians, a reality which it refuses to acknowledge. Turkey's longstanding war against Kurds infamously rejects the very idea that the 60 million Kurds in the world are stateless because Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria co-opted the Kurds' ancestral territory.

 

As for Germany's rejection of the idea of moving Palestinians out of direct contact with their Israeli victims, Germany has much to answer for. The scale of its assault against the humanity represented by Europe's pre-Second World War Jewish population was a massive display of state-organized inhumanity in its Final Solution meant to rid Europe entirely of its Jewish population, and it succeeded to an unimaginable extent. Germany alone is hugely responsible for the resurgence of Zionism, the desperate need for the rebirth of Israel to prevent another Holocaust. 

 

Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi, left, and Saudi foreign minster, Faisal bin Farhan, attend a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025.  (AP Photo/Khaled Elfiqi)