Intense reactions have been provoked by the US president’s statement that the US will take control of its Strip and turn it into a Middle East “Cyan Coast”, while the Palestinians will leave. “The US will take control of Gaza Strip” and “we will do good work there. We will own and take responsibility for eliminating all hazardous bombs that have not exploded and all weapons,” he said, adding that the US will “disbursed buildings” and work to develop the region financially, repeating the proposal for the Palestinians living in the enclave to leave. CORVERSE He also added that he wants to transform the Gaza Strip into “The Middle East Blue Coast”. “For a man who doesn’t know the history and ways of the Middle East this statement is perfectly reasonable,” says Sky News. “Donald Trump should know better than that. He is also the leader of the free world and has at his disposal all foreign policy advisers he wants to hear,” he points out in the analysis of the head of the international news network, Dominic Waghorn. CORVERSE “If he had asked them, they would have told him that there are some issues with his proposal to leave Gazans and not return,” the columnist notes. “First, Palestinians consider Gaza home. They are strongly proud of their heritage and the history of their presence there. Ask anyone who’s ever been to Gaza. Secondly, unlike the American president’s claim that many countries have offered to help them accommodate them, none have done so publicly. In fact, Israel’s immediate neighbours, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have rejected the idea. But third, and most importantly, there is a long and dark story with appeals to the Palestinians to leave their homes and never return. Many of those who live in the Gaza refugee camps are descendants of Nakba victims, as they call it, or destruction when during Israel’s first war of independence, they were forced to leave their homes in territories currently located in Israel.” The Palestinians, according to this analysis, “believe they should be allowed to return to this land, which, as they say, the Israelis wrongly took them. Any consent to a new mass move they believe would be treason of their ancestors’ rights to return.” In this context Sky News recalls that “in the early days of the Gaza war, Israeli right-wing politicians quietly promoted the idea that maybe people could host Gazans, give them a better life, etc. with Trump looking to listen to them and now supports them. This, however, will encourage far-right Jewish extremists in the Netanyahu government who openly support the return of Israeli settlers to the occupation of Gaza.” “But such a development will do nothing to bring a solution to the conflict – the opposite,” concludes Sky News’ analysis.
Donald Trump: Why His Gaza Statement Can Cause New Flash in the Middle East · Global Voices
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