[News] Only Hamas will undermine Trump’s plan to expel Gaza’s residents

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Only Hamas will undermine Trump’s plan to expel Gaza’s residents
By Motasem A Dalloul <https://english.palinfo.com/?p=250385>

Friday 7-February-2025 -
https://english.palinfo.com/opinion_articles/only-hamas-will-undermine-trumps-plan-to-expel-gazas-residents/

During his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US
President Donald Trump expressed his intention to expel the residents of
the occupied Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to an unprecedented
livestreamed genocide committed by the brutal Israeli occupation forces
using, mainly, American arms and money.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too.
We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous
unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,” Trump told reporters. He
also said that the Americans would “level the site, and get rid of the
destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will
supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area, do
a real job, do something different.”

As he was standing alongside Netanyahu, Trump looked serious. “You build
really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like some place where
they can live and not die, because Gaza is a guarantee that they’re going
to end up dying.”

“Why would they want to return? The place has been hell,” he continued,
showcasing the core of his delusional plan. This even embarrassed
reporters, with one saying: “But it’s their home, Sir. Why would they
leave?”

If the US wanted to rebuild Gaza, create an unlimited number of jobs and
turn it into a beautiful area, why did they send money, arms and troops to
destroy it and kill its people?

Trump is trying to do the job himself, after the Israeli occupation failed
to expel the Palestinian from Gaza during the 15-month genocide.

“The bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli
people have endured for generations, and they are absolutely unbreakable,”
Trump said, highlighting that he cares little about the global outrage
caused by Israel’s total destruction of Gaza.

The strange plan also drew global criticism as world leaders reiterated
that ethnically cleansing a population is a stark violation of
international laws and conventions. But these laws and conventions mean
very little to Palestinians who are facing a fierce and immoral occupation
which has global backing in spite of its illegal conduct.

For 15 months, the world could not stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza or even
send food, water and medical aid to Palestinian children, women and men who
were struggling to survive. Most of the global super powers even backed the
genocide, justified or whitewashed it. Therefore, the burden of facing
Trump’s plan lies on the shoulders of the Palestinians themselves.

Can they do it? Yes, they can!

How can they face a superpower when they have no resources or allies? The
Palestinians today are not the Palestinians of 1948, 1967 or 1993. In 1948,
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes to escape the
internationally-backed Zionist war crimes, ending up in refugee camps
inside and outside Palestine and paving the way for the creation of the
state of Israel on most of the area of historic Palestine.

In 1967, Israel occupied the remaining land of historic Palestine along
with large areas of Syria and Egypt. Both countries have signed
American-brokered agreements that settled their differences with Israel at
the expense of their honor and dignity.

After the surrender of the Arabs to Israel, the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) agreed to go after the mirage of peace with the Israeli
occupation state and reached an agreement in 1993 that included the PLO’s
concession of Palestinian lands occupied in 1948 and stipulated ending the
Israeli occupation of Palestinian land occupied in 1967.

Since then, the occupation has expanded and the creation of a Palestinian
state has become even less likely. Instead of complying with Israeli
pledges which were included in the peace agreement, Israeli leaders have
been getting clearer in their promises to get rid of the Palestinians and
occupy all of their historic land.

This has been very clear during the Gaza genocide. From day one, Israeli
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant described Palestinians as “human animals” and
ordered the army to cut all water, electricity and fuel supplies to them.
His army then went on to kill women, children, doctors and patients. They
also destroyed hospitals, schools, universities, electricity grids, water
pipes, sewage installations and communication hubs in an attempt to force
the residents of Gaza out to Egypt, but they failed.

During the past 15 months, the Israeli occupation, backed by most world
leaders, committed all kinds of crimes with complete impunity. Meanwhile,
Palestinians were alone, using only primitive homemade weapons to fight
back and inflict losses on the “invincible army”. This pushed leaders of
the occupation state to insist on ending the war in a way that pleases the
Palestinian resistance, making “hard concessions” for Israel.

Israeli hardliners refused this, but at the end, they kneeled down and
accepted the Palestinian conditions for the ceasefire. Most people think
that Trump put pressure on Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, but I insist
that the Israeli occupation agreed to the ceasefire due to the occupation
army’s failure to achieve the declared ‘war goals’ after more than 15
months of committing war crimes and carrying out a livestream genocide.

Palestinians have never seen resistance like what happened in Gaza. A young
fighter in plain clothes and basic weapons, without protective military
gear, attacking the most fortified and developed tank, shooting and
destroying it. American, British and Israeli high-tech spy drones in
addition to F16 and F35 jets could not detect them or undermine their
defensive attacks that led to the defeat of the best equipped army in the
region, backed by the most well-equipped and trained armies in the world.

Following Trump’s remarks about his plan to expel Gaza’s residents, Hamas
said: “We will never allow Trump’s plan to go ahead.” When Hamas, the
Palestinian resistance movement which enjoys the overwhelming support of
the Palestinians, makes such a remark, it means that it is able to back it
up. This is why Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, posted on X
saying: “Gaza MUST BE FREE from Hamas.”

They know the truth and the Palestinians also know it. The Palestinians no
longer trust Arab and world leaders. They no longer believe that Hamas is a
terrorist organization that is causing the destruction of their hopes and
dreams. They believe now that supporting it is the only way to undermine
Trump and Israel’s expulsion plans, achieve their hopes and aspirations,
the liberation of their land and the creation of their state.

*-Motasem A Dalloul is MEMO’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip.*
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