"Krone" analysis
Gaza as a plaything of lust
You don't really know whether to laugh or cry. Every time you think it can't get any more absurd, US President Donald Trump sparks a new brainwave. Is this still politics or a desire for ever greater shockwaves?
He is staggering through the minefield of the Middle East like a blind man. This blood-soaked landscape has already been through a lot, terrible things, but turning the Gaza Strip, hell on earth, into a riviera can only occur to a construction lion who has mutated into a president.
If the two million Palestinians don't leave voluntarily, the US army could also help out, Trump muses to himself. What a nightmarish idea: US Marines landing on the Gaza Strip and driving out Hamas - something Israel has already failed to do! These ideas are buzzing in the head of someone who wants to end wars, not start them, he says. Even his voters would no longer go along with that.
Even if this Gaza Riviera plan was just the fantasy of a man who can't keep his words, maximum damage has been done, if only because it was put into the world. For reasons:
- The Palestinians would never leave voluntarily. They have a national trauma, the "Nakba" (= misfortune, catastrophe): Flight and expulsion and no return after the Israeli War of Independence and the Six-Day War of 1967. They know: Once they have left their homeland, there is no going back. And: no one wants them.
- Israel's right-wing extremists can hardly believe their luck: Making Gaza Palestinian-free for Jewish (re)colonization is, after all, their goal.
- The entire Arab world is offended by a plan that reminds them of the darkest chapters of Western colonialism, especially after the First World War: back then, the West divided up the Ottoman Empire - the root of all subsequent Middle East wars and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now someone from the West wants to divide up the Middle East again.
- For the Jordanian monarchy, which has preserved this small country as an island of peace in the Middle East, Trump's plan threatens its very existence. The Jordanian population already consists of over two thirds Palestinians after the two waves of refugees. The royal family comes from Mecca - a delicate matter. Palestinian leader Arafat wanted to seize power at the time and was driven out by King Hussein's Bedouin troops. For the Israeli right-wing extremists, Jordan has long been the real Palestinian state, making a two-state solution on the West Bank and Gaza unnecessary.
- Although Egypt has 100 million inhabitants, it could absorb an influx, but does not want to risk a Palestinian trouble spot in the country. The regime of President General al-Sisi is sitting on bayonets and must expect hunger riots and resistance from the Muslim Brotherhood at any time. Egypt has erected a triple (!) protective fence on the Gaza border ...
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