Trump's plan is a second catastrophe

US President Donald Trump deliberately repeated his talk about his plans and program to displace the Palestinian people by pressuring Egypt and Jordan to receive hundreds of thousands from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This in itself is a prelude to implementing a second Nakba against the Palestinian people, which requires all Palestinians and Arabs to develop strategic plans to thwart a new Nakba through several steps, the first of which is to bet on the Palestinian people and their ability to confront these plans. The people who have endured despite the scale of the disaster and genocide in the Strip are capable of thwarting President Trump's project. In return, the Palestinian Authority, the factions and the Palestine Liberation Organization must unite and meet immediately with the participation of Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements and announce a national program inside and outside the country to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and move on the Arab, regional and international levels. The Authority must request an immediate Arab and Islamic summit meeting and make decisions supporting the Palestinian cause, the Palestinian people and their steadfastness.

It is also necessary to address international organizations, bodies and institutions concerned with human rights and consider Trump's plan a violation and inconsistency with international laws, state sovereignty and the right of peoples to self-determination and liberation from occupation, and to condemn and reject this plan and demand a just solution to the Palestinian issue. The Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt are required to form a supreme committee to coordinate efforts, positions and movements in order for the position to be clear and unified, and to ask Arab countries to move and provide absolute support in rejecting this trend, and to take serious and effective steps, which must reach the point of severing relations with the United States of America and Israel and participating with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the plans and agreeing with it not to proceed with normalization with Israel before finding a just solution to the Palestinian issue.

The Palestinian people today are not the same as the people of 1948. Today, they are capable of steadfastness, confrontation and challenge, and the Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu project will fail, just as it failed the Deal of the Century and failed to achieve Israel’s goals in its war on Gaza. It is worth noting that Netanyahu called for the establishment of a Palestinian state for the Palestinians in Saudi Arabia, and this is primarily an attack on the Palestinian people and their national rights, and then an attack on the sovereignty and security of Saudi Arabia.

Despite the amount of pressure and blackmail that both Egypt and Jordan are exposed to, the position of both sides rejects the pressures and Trump's project, but this requires mobilizing the Jordanian and Egyptian popular arena and holding demonstrations and crowds supporting the position rejecting Trump's project and opening the way for the people to take serious action. The two countries must take direct international action and ask international organizations to take decisions supporting the sovereignty of their countries and not endangering their national security and condemning the plans and statements of Trump and Netanyahu. The two countries must take decisions regarding America and Israel since they have peace relations with Israel, and warn that if this is initiated, they will sever relations, withdraw ambassadors, and end peace agreements. Here the fundamental question arises: Are the leaders of these countries capable of all of the above? I believe that the coming days will answer it through practical future steps, not through statements of condemnation and denunciation. Here it must be said that Egypt and Jordan will reject, but their position is weak without a unified Arab-Palestinian-international position.

Basically, it requires the Palestinians at the popular level to be aware, steadfast, steadfast and confront, and to rely on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to thwart this project, just as the popular capacity in Gaza thwarted it through the scenes of return from the south to the north, which confirm that the Palestinian people cannot be uprooted from their land despite the disasters, the scale of the genocide, the war of starvation and the destruction of Gaza architecturally and geographically, as the Palestinian people cannot repeat the Nakba a second time, as the bet on immigration was thwarted by the people in the Strip.

In contrast, all Israeli parties and parliamentary blocs welcomed Trump’s plans. Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed Trump’s plans to displace the Palestinians and take control of Gaza. Smotrich stated, “Now we will work to bury the dangerous idea of a Palestinian state once and for all.” Netanyahu described Trump’s idea as “wonderful” and said it should be “studied and implemented.” Netanyahu left Washington after receiving Trump’s support for the demands of the extreme right in his government, which call for the mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.

Amnesty International stated that Trump's proposals regarding the Gaza Strip are absurd, immoral and illegal, and it rejects the inhumanity of Trump's proposal, the seizure of land and his mockery of the right of peoples to self-determination. In the same vein, the Arab League confirmed that Trump's proposal to displace Palestinians from Gaza is a recipe for instability and does not contribute to achieving the two-state solution. Trump's proposal promotes a scenario of displacing Palestinians that is rejected by Arabs and internationally and violates international law. In the same context, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas responded to Trump's statements regarding the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, stating, "We reject calls to seize the Gaza Strip, and we reject the displacement of the sons of the Palestinian people and the land of Palestine to the Palestinians, and the Palestinian people will not give up their land, homeland and rights."

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed the need to avoid "any form of ethnic cleansing, recalling the right of Palestinians to live simply as human beings on their land." French President Emmanuel Macron and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi warned that any forced displacement of the Palestinian people in Gaza or the West Bank would be unacceptable. Jordan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the Arab League rejected the US plan, as did the European Union. For its part, Iran considered the proposal to forcefully displace the residents of Gaza shocking, and the Indonesian Foreign Ministry stated, "We strongly reject any attempt to forcibly displace Palestinians or change the demographic composition of the occupied Palestinian territories." Hezbollah condemned Trump's plan, stressing that the Israeli occupation "will not take in peace what it did not take in war, under malicious and foolish slogans that want to fool the peoples of the world."

At the official Palestinian level, it requires taking serious steps, the first of which is completing national unity and developing programs that support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their adherence to their land, stopping security coordination and severing ties with the American administration participating in the war on the Palestinian people and land, and taking immediate action with Jordan, Egypt and the Arab countries at all levels, specifically internationally, and requesting an immediate meeting of the emergency Arab summit and turning to international organizations and taking collective decisions to expose this destructive project that violates all international laws and norms; because God forbid if these countries submit and this project is implemented, these countries will be finished on a popular, political and sovereign level, and history will record that they participated in liquidating the Palestinian cause.

It is necessary to reject all the temptations offered by Trump to both Egypt and Jordan to absorb the displaced Palestinians in exchange for paying hundreds of billions to revive the economies of these countries and force them to settle the displaced and homeless Palestinians in them. Channel 14 quoted former US intelligence officer Michael Milstein as saying that Trump, with his proposals, may be trying to pressure Arab countries to promote normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Moreover, the formation of the “Hague Group” consisting of nine countries was announced, in support of Palestine and to hold Israel accountable, and this undoubtedly represents a glimmer of hope, as it is the first bloc of its kind in the world to be formed for this purpose. On the other hand, the shocking news is that there is no Arab country among them, and the group includes South Africa, Malaysia, Colombia, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Namibia, Senegal, and Belize. The group’s goals are based on international law, including working towards self-determination and the establishment of a Palestinian state, committing to ending the occupation and the illegitimacy of settlements, supporting the implementation of the International Court of Justice’s orders against Israel (which South Africa filed), supporting the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Netanyahu, preventing the transfer of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment to Israel, which it may use to commit violations of international humanitarian law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, prohibiting genocide, and preventing ships used to transport weapons and military fuel to Israel from docking in any of its ports, and it called on other countries to join it.

Returning to the ancient Palestinian past in 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte’s dreams were shattered on the walls of Acre, and Acre and Palestine remained, and Napoleon, who said at the time, “Our dreams were shattered on your walls, O Acre,” departed. Today, time is repeating itself through Trump, who will depart just as Napoleon departed, as did the former Prime Minister of the occupation, Yitzhak Rabin, who said in 1992, “I hope one day to wake up from my sleep and find Gaza swallowed by the sea.” These were the wishes of Yitzhak Shamir, Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Shaul Mofaz, Ehud Barak, and others, but it was Gaza that swallowed the Israeli army, and recorded the historic miracle on October 7, 2023. Gaza will remain the pride, and Gaza today, despite the destruction and the great crime, is not the Gaza of 1799 and 1992, but the Gaza that stood firm for a year and a half and forced the occupation to release the prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment and agree to the conditions of the resistance. It is the Gaza that triumphed throughout History, which was a graveyard for invaders, will leave and Trump will be defeated, and Gaza will become more solid and strong, and his projects will be shattered on the shores of Gaza, whose gas and location he and Netanyahu covet.