The newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, advocates that a “cleaning” of Gaza is carried out that passes through the deportation of 1.5 million citizens of the 2.3 that inhabit the Palestinian enclave and that, according to He could be welcomed by countries in the region as Egypt and Jordan. In this way, it makes clear the alignment of the new US government with the most radical theses of the Executive led by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu. Everything, when the second week of Alto El Fuego begins in Gaza, the biggest period of calm since the war began on October 7, 2023.
“I would like Egypt to welcome people” and “I would like Jordan to take people,” the president specified to the reporters who accompany him on his plane, the Air Force One. “We probably talk about one and a half million people. We simply, we clean all that and say: ‘You know it is over’ ”, he added after keeping a telephone conversation with King Abdalá de Jordan and before the one planned this Sunday with the president of Egypt, Abdelfatá al Sisi .
Gaza is “a real mess,” Trump thinks about the territory of just 365 square kilometers where more than 47,000 people have died in the current contest, mostly women and children, during attacks of Israeli occupation troops. The president justifies his plan precisely in the destruction suffered by the strip, without expressly referring to the colonizing desire of his Israeli ally. “It is literally a demolition zone, everything is destroyed and people are dying, so I prefer to get involved with some Arab countries to build homes in other locations where [los gazatíes] They can live in peace, ”he has detailed.
On the day of his inauguration, the president has already suggested what he really thinks about the strip when he described it as a territory of potential tourist interest, without thinking, of course in the Palestinians. “It has to be rebuilt in a different way. Gaza is interesting, it is a phenomenal place. In the sea, the best weather. Everything’s fine. You can do beautiful things there. It is very interesting. Fantastic things can be done, ”he told the informants who accompanied him in the Oval Office of the White House.
The euphemism of the Israeli ultras: “voluntary emigration”
The applause to Trump from the most radical sector of Israeli power have arrived almost immediately, such as that of until a few days Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has abandoned the cabinet for being against the truce. “I congratulate US President Trump for the initiative to transfer Jordan and Egypt to residents of Gaza,” he said in his social network profile X (formerly Twitter). Euphemistically, Ben-Gvir and other ultra-nationalists refer to these deportations such as “voluntary emigration” and urges Netanyahu to take note of the US president and implement it “now!”
The head of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, colonized in the West Bank as Ben-Gvir, has also rushed to approve Trump’s plan. “The idea of helping them find other places to start a new and better life is excellent” after “76 years during which the majority of the population of Gaza has been maintained by force in hard conditions to preserve the aspiration to destroy the State of Israel, ”he celebrates in a statement in which he adds that he is going to work with Netyahu to” implement this idea as soon as possible. “
The newly elected president has been the trigger to sign the fire in Gaza after months of unsuccessful negotiations blocked largely by Israel Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu. But, at the same time, there is no doubt that the policy in the Middle East of the Republican leader is far from seeking the confrontation with the executive more of the extreme right of the history of the Jewish state. His plan for Gaza is a clear sign of this.
More bombs against Gaza
Among the numerous decrees and statements signed by the US president as soon as possible on January 20 is the repeal of the sanctions against violent settlers than his predecessor, President Joe Biden, launched in February 2024 and that It was an unprecedented measure against Israeli citizens by their main ally, USA.
The republican president for the strip has been known shortly after he launched the delivery to Israel of a bolt of bombs that Biden blocked because they were going to serve to indiscriminately kill the Palestinians. It is, as the axious medium, of MK-86 model pumps of a few thousand kilos of each one. This Sunday, Foreign Minister of the Jewish State, Gideon Saar, has thank Trump: “The region is safer when Israel has what he needs to defend himself,” he said in a statement.
