By Armin Sijamić
Two days ago, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, during the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shocked the world and surprised only those who did not want to see – there is a plan to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip under the guise of caring for their safety.
The Gaza Strip is a place of destruction, it is a "hellhole", a place where everything is destroyed and life is not possible, Trump said, among other things, in front of Netanyahu, who was smiling and who is primarily responsible for why this piece of territory is exactly as the American president described it.
The United Nations has estimated that there are fifty million tons of rubble in the Gaza Strip and that their removal will take over twenty years and more than a billion dollars. Trump did not criticize his guest, who is on an international wanted list for crimes in the Gaza Strip, but at one point held his chair while he tried to sit down.
The American president said he was ready to send the US military to take over the Gaza Strip, clear the rubble, create a tourist destination there, and "open thousands and thousands of jobs".
Who runs the United States?
This Trump's behavior towards his guest did not go without criticism from his supporters. On social networks, they expressed their disappointment, seeing it as an abandonment of Trump's proclaimed "America First" policy. Others noted that Trump was returning a favor to the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States for the help they provided him during the campaign.
Returning favors in the American political system is not new. Everyone has the right to lobby as long as it is transparent. Politicians are expected to represent the views for which someone has paid them or helped them in another way. For decades, powerful Israeli, Armenian, Albanian, and other lobbies have been operating successfully there.
But even in such circumstances, Trump's calls for the ethnic cleansing of two million people sound like a conspiracy theory. It is no secret that the current US administration is filled with pro-Israeli officials like never before, which likely led Netanyahu to state that Israel has never had a greater friend in the White House than the current president, Trump.
What Trump said on Tuesday, Netanyahu does not say. It is too much even for him to say that he intends to drive millions of people from their land, after their homes, roads, schools, hospitals, water supply, religious buildings, and water sources have been destroyed by bombing...
A day later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who for many represents the voice of reason in the Trump administration because he advocates for established US policy, tried to fix things. From Guatemala, he stated that Trump meant temporary displacement of the population, because otherwise reconstruction could not begin, adding that the president's offer to the Palestinians was a "generous move" and that they would return to their homes.
An elephant in a china shop or a saboteur?
Trump's unprecedented behavior and then Rubio's attempt to justify the president revealed to the world that a plan to displace Palestinians exists.
With his statement, Trump showed the world that there is a plan to displace Palestinians and that, accordingly, we can conclude that the culprit for the absence of a Palestinian state is among the circles from which Netanyahu comes. The former minister and Netanyahu's coalition partner, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who had spoken about it before, did not hide his enthusiasm for Trump's statements. Netanyahu described Trump's call for the de facto ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip as "thinking outside the box with fresh ideas".
If we accept Rubio's explanation of Trump's good intentions, then the American president has exposed a policy to millions of people. Trump showed that the blame lies with the Israeli side and that the authorities in Tel Aviv do not want the formation of a Palestinian state. Some concluded that Trump's "strong" statements were merely preparing the ground for negotiations and that this was his style, as he had shown in his dealings with Panama, Canada, Mexico, and Denmark in recent days.
If that is true, then Trump acted like an "elephant in a china shop", showing ignorance of international politics and revealing the criminal intentions of his allies and his administration, or perhaps he is a cold-blooded saboteur of Netanyahu's policy.
To support this dilemma, let's mention two examples related to Trump's style of politics.
In preparation for Netanyahu's visit, some US media outlets again promoted a decades-old story - Iran is months away from an atomic bomb. Then Trump stated that Tehran must not have an atomic bomb and said he wanted to see Iran as a "great and successful" country, proposing negotiations and a "great Middle Eastern celebration" in case of an agreement.
The second example is an ironic praise of such an approach to politics. Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said during Trump's first term that he was the best US president ever because he was honest. Some time earlier, Trump had stated that he had sent US soldiers to eastern Syria to control the oil fields there.
These days, as reported by numerous media outlets, the Israeli army is destroying Palestinian homes in the West Bank, in territory never ruled by Hamas, while Trump is imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court, which has placed Netanyahu on an international wanted list.
What Trump and the United States will undertake in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the foreseeable future remains unknown. But what is certain is that Trump's management of the White House will leave severe consequences for America's reputation in the world, even among allies, and subsequently consequences for American political, economic, and other interests worldwide.
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