These are not easy times.
At a White House news conference on Tuesday, a grinning accused war criminal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stood close by nodding in applause as I had to listen to the president’s meanderings repeatedly throughout the writing of this column.
As a calculated charlatan made me feel some of the same emotions as you did when you predicted that America would “own” Gaza and that, for their own good, more than two million Palestinians would be expelled from their ancestral homeland in order to make room for a horde of obstinate Israeli settlers and vehement real estate moguls, including Trump’s eager son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Perhaps, like you, I became angry.
I became angry at the audacity of a , preening braggart who knows nothing about Palestine or its history but claims to have the best interests of Palestinians at mummified heart while he intends to “clean out” Gaza and, in effect, erase them and , their , history.
But, unlike so many other callow commentators, I am not shocked by this singularly sinister plan made plain publicly by Trump to engineer what amounts to his foul solution to the Palestinian , problem.
“The US will take over the Gaza strip”, Trump said. “We will own it…you]Palestinians] just can’t go back”.
There is nothing to “go back” to since for 15 months, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. More than 60, 000 Palestinians, mostly infants, children and women, have been killed. More than 100, 000 people have been injured – in mind, body, and spirit – often grievously.
Now, Israel is , busy razing , the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu and rancid company are determined to turn , much of it , into dust and memory, too – with the enthusiastic complicity of America’s entrenched political and media establishment.
Israel’s atrocity-excusing allies have not been bothered by that blatant disregard for the grotesque number and manner of Palestinian deaths, which is exemplified by their defining disregard for both the atrocity-excusing allies and many Israelis.
I repeatedly reiterated in  that this is the perverse end game: to ethnically remove Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank and replace them with a number of resorts along the coast.
Since 1948, that has been the only way to end things. And a succession of Democratic and Republican presidents has made it possible for Israel to realize its long-awaited goal of removing Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank for good.
It was a dream shared by the decrepit and recently departed US commander-in-chief, Joe Biden, his duplicitous Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and craven Democratic Party “elites” who feigned interest in a phantom “two-state” concoction as they rearmed Israel to the hilt and voted down – again and again – ceasefire resolutions at the United Nations Security Council.
Biden and Blinken stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Netanyahu like obedient manikins while Israel vented its killing lust against largely defenseless Palestinians and Gaza was reduced to uninhabitable, dystopian-like rubble.
In , words , and deeds, Blinken and Biden set the egregious stage for Trump’s demented gambit. The only and instructive difference is the current Israel-adoring occupant of the Oval Office said the carefully-hidden-behind-more-agreeable-language-part out loud.
I doubt that the Israeli-is-always-above-reproach crowd that encircles CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times opinion page will recall senior Biden administration officials reaching for a dignifiable euphemism called “civilian safe passage” in negotiations to drain Gaza of Palestinians.
I doubt, as well, that the well-known cast of deferential Western writers and pundits who pin the Israeli flag on their X handles in a heinous act of solidarity will have the decency to acknowledge finally that the blatant definition of what the Israeli-American axis has done to Palestinians constitutes genocidal ethnic cleansing, not as a rhetorical cudgel but as a fact established under international law.
No matter how horrifying or outrageous it is or what it envisions, they will never, undoubtedly, depart from their unquestioned defense of Israel.
Instead, the pretend progressives , are busy pointing a smug finger of blame at “uncommitted” voters for having refused to support failed Democrat presidential nominee, Kamala Harris.
These misguided partisans appear to have forgotten that the former vice president is equally responsible for the massacre of Palestinians and the destruction of Gaza as her scheming ex-boyfriend.
It’s best to stop these obedient amnesiacs.
Meanwhile, Trump’s ethnic-cleansing-drenched remarks have revealed that stages two and three of the so-called ceasefire agreement that set the terms for the possible reconstruction of Gaza are a cynical farce.
Bereft of even a hint of humanity, Trump and Israel’s racist cabinet will make sure that Gaza will not be rebuilt. Working together, they will guarantee that Palestinians remain exposed and vulnerable to the harsh, unforgiving elements, deprivation, disease, and want.
They know that time and the grinding, never-ending occupation are on their side.
Soon, Palestinian mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons will confront an excruciating dilemma despite their moving, dignified insistence that “we shall not be moved”.
For some, no homes, no jobs, no schools, no hospitals, no libraries, no playgrounds, will, inevitably, translate into no hope.
The only way for many Palestinians to escape Gaza and the West Bank in this terrible situation is to search for a new life with potential and promise, regrettably.
Trump’s crazy ideas have an unquestionable, insidious goal: to make Palestinians choose between staying in Gaza and letting them experience despair and hopelessness, or, reluctantly, seeking refuge in other countries, as so many others have done.
In the end, the only articles written about Trump’s obscene scheme serve as ephemeral mill grist.
Palestine’s fate and future will be resolved by Palestinians in quiet conversation amid the ruins wrought by the , “international community” who, for generations, has condemned and abandoned them to the rabid wolves.
Source: Aljazeera
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