US President Donald Trump has sparked international outrage by proposing the US take over Gaza, suggesting Palestinians be relocated. This proposal is widely condemned as ethnic cleansing and raises serious concerns about Trump's growing appetite for territorial expansion.
On Wednesday, during a joint press conference with Israel i Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump made a shocking proposal that the US should 'take over Gaza in an ownership capacity' and that the Palestinians there, who are trying to pick up the pieces of their lives and homes after 15 months of catastrophic war, should leave. This is the very definition of ethnic cleansing, which is universally considered one of the gravest possible crimes against humanity.
We condemn it utterly, and our government should do so as well, immediately and in unequivocal terms. \ This is not the first time Trump has aired the suggestion of relocating the entire population of Gaza, some 2 million people; he did so shortly after taking office last month, proposing that Jordan and Egypt should take in the displaced Palestinians. Both countries immediately rejected the idea, and it was strongly condemned throughout the other Arab states. At that time, however, Trump did not openly propose a US takeover of the territory. That has changed, and when pressed by a reporter during the news conference, Trump said that US troops would be used 'if necessary' to secure the enclave, which lies along the Mediterranean coast at Israel's border with neighboring Egypt. \That location is what Trump covets, which he has revealed in occasional, seemingly off-the-cuff remarks in the years since he first became president in 2016. Trump, a real estate developer by trade, has described Gaza as 'beautiful beachfront property,' and the vague plans he shared in this week's press conference to 'develop it into something the entire Middle East can be proud of' clearly indicated his commercial intentions. As for the Palestinians who call Gaza home, they could be sent to 'neighboring countries of great wealth,' despite the fact that all of those have already firmly rejected that proposal. \Netanyahu, who is accused by many of attempting a genocide of the people of Gaza during the war that began with a surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in October 2023, had no comment on Trump's remarks regarding the future of the territory. The war temporarily displaced almost the entire population and killed more than 47,000 people, according to the Gaza health ministry, the overwhelming majority of them civilians. Forcibly removing or driving out an entire population is ethnic cleansing, and until Trump returned to office, it is something that the US has taken pride in standing firmly against, as most civilized nations do. Now, apparently, it is intended to be a normal part of US foreign policy, and Trump's government should be treated as other governments that have followed this path — as a pariah unfit to be part of the world community. \Besides the moral repugnance of what Trump proposes for Gaza, the suggestion is a worrying sign that the US president's appetite for aggressive territorial expansion is growing. Since his election, Trump has seriously proposed annexing Canada as the '51st state,' has pressured Denmark and Greenland to hand over the autonomous island state — believed to be rich in mineral wealth — to the US, and this past week dispatched his Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama to attempt to strong-arm the Central American country into ceding the Panama Canal, which was US territory until a 1979 treaty returned it to Panama. Trump has used various tactics and threats to try to grab territory, including his favorite, threatening punitive tariffs. That these efforts have largely been unsuccessful so far — and in the case of Canada, spectacularly so — have seemingly not deterred Trump if his hint that he might use military force to seize Gaza is any indication. \If he is not condemned by the rest of the world and stopped from taking this dangerous path, there is no predicting where it will end, and no country in the world can really consider itself safe. For example, in an intensifying rivalry with China — something that already is happening — might the US demand the reestablishment of permanent military bases in the Philippines and threaten economic warfare or foul treatment of Filipinos in the US if we refuse? Unfortunately, there now seems to be a non-zero possibility of that sort of scenario happening unless we join our voices with the rest of the world to stop this madness
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