He might have convinced himself that ethnically cleansing the Palestinians is the only way to decisively end the conflict, ensure Israel’s long-term security, and restore regional business opportunities like the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor.
I have long thought that the so-called "two-state solution" is both impractical (actually impossible) and a recipe for genocide. Whether one prefers Israelis or Palestinians to be genocided is really beside the point (I know what my preference would be, but I am not going to state it here). So I cautiously welcome Trump's initiative and your explication of it. On the other hand, absent rabid Zionism, it's not clear why Egypt should not instead be encouraged to annex Gaza, since it already has contiguous borders with it. Similarly, there seems to be no good reason why Jordan should not annex part of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Exactly where the new borders should be drawn is obviously the fly in the ointment and could lead to as much bloodshed in the short term as continuing to maintain the "two-state solution" fiction. Another point that many fail to consider (on both "sides") is the possibility that many Palestinian Arabs might prefer to be given full Israeli citizenship and stay on that side of the border. Living as a Palestinian under Jordanian or Egyptian control is not necessarily an improvement, whichever way you look at it. It's perfectly understandable that Palestinians would desire full state-ship, but, as my mother always told me, "I want doesn't get".
I read no mention of justice and the illegality to conduct ethnic cleansing on this analysis, only about morals and humanitarian considerations. That this will lead to more charges of war crimes, genocide, etc. both at ICC and ICJ with guaranteed sentences, including for Trump. NYC judges might not have found Trump guilty of anything, but ICJ will likely find Israel and US guilty of ethnic cleansing and genocide. I don't know how Trump can justify this to the American people, the act of ethnic cleansing... Because then West Bank will also be on the block, it is understood. With 3-4 more million Palestinians...
There is a small evolutionary nugget in higher mammals which makes individuals sense injustice and be upset about it...
And Israel's security can be guaranteed by recognizing Palestine. All Arab countries have clearly stated that. But Israel doesn't want only security. Wants more land as well.
Israel also wants regime change in Iran. The issue of the bomb is only a ruse.
I am not sure how the rest of the neighbourhood thinks about all this... The neighbourhood main street will definitely pay attention, regardless what the monarchs and the generals will say about it. Same with Indonesia (largest Islamic country in the world) and Malaysia...
International law is meaningless without credible enforcement mechanisms and the political will to employ them, the latter of which doesn't exist with regard to the UNSC vis Israel, which is why I don't consider it worth my time to opine on in my pieces.
I acknowledge that this upsets leftists and activists (which are oftentimes, but not always, one and the same), but that's why I leave my comments open so you all can share your talking points on these subjects whenever you feel like it.
I am not sure that in case ICJ issues final rulings finding Israel guilty of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, European countries will be that fast in neglecting those rulings. Maybe UK - yes, definitely US. But Israel will be trapped inside its own borders and surrounded by countries willing to enforce the ruling.
Even the ICC warrants are not that easily dismissed by Israel.
And you are taking this too lightly and seem to not be aware of the very heated debates taking place among international jurists, and which tilts strongly against Israel. This is definitely a "leftist" or "activist" matter as you are so fast to claim, but it is serious business and has nothing to do with left or right.
Israeli leaders don't have to travel to Europe, and it's very doubtful that major European companies will implement "BDS" policies against Israel.
I actually take the issue very seriously, but only in an academic sense since, as I said, international law is largely superficial and rarely implemented.
But yes, actually, it's mostly leftists and activists who sincerely think that international law can restrain Israel though they've been proven wrong.
Israel didn't agree to the ceasefire because of last year's genocide ruling, but due to being coerced into it by the US.
There have been absolutely zero consequences of tangible significance to Israel since that ruling was made. It was a non-event in terms of the war's dynamics.
Countries might find all kinds of twisted arguments to not apply the ICC warrant. I don't think the same would be the case for an ICJ ruling finding Israel guilty of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing.
That part is really embeded in national laws since all are signatories of the Genocide Convention and are part of UN. It is not academic and it is nothing to do with left or right, but it has everything to do with idea of justice and law.
And many people take this thing very seriously and they are not leftists nor activists.
Zioinist Trump advisors are deluding themselves if they think that ".. this is the only way to decisively end the conflict,...". Further displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank will just re-create the disaster that US troops subsequently endured following the CIA's support for Osama Bin Laden and his efforts to expel the Russian military from Afghanistan. The Taliban then turned on the US and forced an ignominious defeat and withdrawal. Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homeland will simply reinforce their determination to unite and seek revenge on US and Israeli assets for perpetrating this heinous crime.
But you don't seem to take the very real possibility of actual genocide (to the end) into account here. I'd love to think that that simply wasn't going to happen, but the events of the last two years don't offer much encouragement.
Well described, a friend from Lebanon once told me that the Palestinians are the Muslim gypsies that nobody wants to take in. He said, you have your gypsies, we have our gypsies!!!
All of the following needs Jews becoming truly independent as a people and nation.
Yes Sinai was at the centre of how to fight this war against Hamas following October 7 which was an existentialist issue for Jews. El Sisi broke the Sadat-Begin treaty, that aspect of things needed to be definitively stated. Central to Hamas was the massive tunnels crossing from Sinai into Gaza through which the arms entered. The border opened not by talk but by force, the civilians could leave, the IDF could be directed to utterly defeat and pressure Hamas, an offer made to the enemy supervised by an independent country which would guarantee their freedom out of the area - in return for unharmed release of the Jewish hostages. End the Arab plantation of Gaza by a wildlife and nature "plantation" which could well become the global centre and focus against global warming caused by the use of fossil fuels used by capitalism. For Jews to recover their soul as a guide to the world in what is surely an earth which will challenge mankind to the fullest extreme, in a completely new form of earth being.
Ethnically cleansing the land of Palestine sounds somehow familiar to me. Hasn't a government in Europe once wanted to "cleanse" the country and create an ethnically pure population? Then the beautiful beaches of Palestine can be divided into parcels, sold at high prices and built with magnificent villas?
The Palestinians can then look for a new home in Egypt and Jordan. I'm curious to see whether the proud Muslim world will swallow all of this without "murmuring"?
Now, let's just remember what Soviet Union did with the natives of East Prussia, Poles with Silesian Germans and Czechs with the Sudeten in 1945-1948 to add context. In retrospect, West-Germany of course profited very much from THAT population transfer. But it didn't exist when that population transfer took place.
I oppose ethnic cleansing, but I also understand the political utility of such a policy. On that topic, a lot of people who bring up immediate post-WWII examples forget the expulsion and coerced migration of Poles from the "Kresy", especially Vilnius/Wilno, which was historically much more Polish than the more popularly mentioned example of Lvov/Lwow.
Sure, but the Poles also moved a lot of Belorussians out to the East post-WW2. And last, there was that Kielce massacre that ensured that the surviving ex-Polish Jews that were already in the West never came back again...
Again, two wrongs don't make a right, and Poland was under Soviet control (or at the very least hegemonic influence if one wants to quibble) so it's inaccurate to describe Warsaw's complicity in what Soviet and Russian academics call "population transfers" as representative of what "Poles" did in the sense of making it seem like it was a sovereign decision and/or representative of the people's will.
You're also misinformed about what happened in Kielce, which was deplorable but not as simple as a pogrom by supposedly inherently anti-Semitic Poles like your very brief swipe makes it seem, which I suspect is motivated by either innocent unawareness of the facts, dislike of Poles and Poland (many leftists and activists have such views), or personal identity (ethno-national and/or religious) factors:
In any case, after having responded to your revisionist claims about Poland and Poles, I honestly don't even understand the point that you were initially trying to make. Why even bring up the immediate post-WWII events that the Soviets were involved in when there wasn't even a single word or remote reference to World War II, the Soviets, or Russia in my analysis?
Did you maybe mistakenly assume that I'm Russian (I'm not but I don't mind being mistaken for one), disagreed with my description of Trump's proposal as ethnic cleansing, and therefore thought you'd make a personally directed political remark to indirectly signal your dissatisfaction because you, for whatever reason, don't feel comfortable simply saying that you disagree with that terminology? Is that it?
Now I see why I sensed your perspective showed a fairly abrupt tilt in the second half of 2024. Abrupt, as I see no transition period. Tilt, because the magnitude of change is not much.
What do you mean? My perspective has remained the same on pretty much everything for the past several years at least. The only recent recalibration was realizing how weak the Resistance Axis was in late September and that most of their PR was just lies and wishful thinking repackaged as facts and analysis.
And because of all that and of what Germans and Japanese did in WWII we have UN and the UN Charter and Geneva Convention and ICJ, etc... To stop repeating these crimes...
The Prince's act! So decided our "blood brothers" Trump and Bibi.
The new POTUS, as a good businessman, considers with some lust the business opportunities that the territories will constitute once purged of the "Untermensh" who pollute these lands promised to a brilliant future.
It is as simple as that and it does not constitute in any way the slightest moral or legal problem, moreover, our two cronies know pertinently that nothing and no one could effectively oppose their project.
Finally, we know very well what is their opinion regarding international bodies and in particular the ICJ. For them, therefore, it is only a technical problem, that of the industrial cleaning of a vast construction site opening up incredible business opportunities! Once again: 𝙞𝙣 𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩, and, “𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣s!”…
another zionist bandit, it is said that Russia cut off the resistant link. It will have negative impact on Russia existence. It is not my problem, i am living in Australia. Maybe Yahweh will punish zionist mongrels in iSSrahell so they will remember for 1000years.
I have long thought that the so-called "two-state solution" is both impractical (actually impossible) and a recipe for genocide. Whether one prefers Israelis or Palestinians to be genocided is really beside the point (I know what my preference would be, but I am not going to state it here). So I cautiously welcome Trump's initiative and your explication of it. On the other hand, absent rabid Zionism, it's not clear why Egypt should not instead be encouraged to annex Gaza, since it already has contiguous borders with it. Similarly, there seems to be no good reason why Jordan should not annex part of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Exactly where the new borders should be drawn is obviously the fly in the ointment and could lead to as much bloodshed in the short term as continuing to maintain the "two-state solution" fiction. Another point that many fail to consider (on both "sides") is the possibility that many Palestinian Arabs might prefer to be given full Israeli citizenship and stay on that side of the border. Living as a Palestinian under Jordanian or Egyptian control is not necessarily an improvement, whichever way you look at it. It's perfectly understandable that Palestinians would desire full state-ship, but, as my mother always told me, "I want doesn't get".
I read no mention of justice and the illegality to conduct ethnic cleansing on this analysis, only about morals and humanitarian considerations. That this will lead to more charges of war crimes, genocide, etc. both at ICC and ICJ with guaranteed sentences, including for Trump. NYC judges might not have found Trump guilty of anything, but ICJ will likely find Israel and US guilty of ethnic cleansing and genocide. I don't know how Trump can justify this to the American people, the act of ethnic cleansing... Because then West Bank will also be on the block, it is understood. With 3-4 more million Palestinians...
There is a small evolutionary nugget in higher mammals which makes individuals sense injustice and be upset about it...
And Israel's security can be guaranteed by recognizing Palestine. All Arab countries have clearly stated that. But Israel doesn't want only security. Wants more land as well.
Israel also wants regime change in Iran. The issue of the bomb is only a ruse.
I am not sure how the rest of the neighbourhood thinks about all this... The neighbourhood main street will definitely pay attention, regardless what the monarchs and the generals will say about it. Same with Indonesia (largest Islamic country in the world) and Malaysia...
International law is meaningless without credible enforcement mechanisms and the political will to employ them, the latter of which doesn't exist with regard to the UNSC vis Israel, which is why I don't consider it worth my time to opine on in my pieces.
I acknowledge that this upsets leftists and activists (which are oftentimes, but not always, one and the same), but that's why I leave my comments open so you all can share your talking points on these subjects whenever you feel like it.
I am not sure that in case ICJ issues final rulings finding Israel guilty of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, European countries will be that fast in neglecting those rulings. Maybe UK - yes, definitely US. But Israel will be trapped inside its own borders and surrounded by countries willing to enforce the ruling.
Even the ICC warrants are not that easily dismissed by Israel.
And you are taking this too lightly and seem to not be aware of the very heated debates taking place among international jurists, and which tilts strongly against Israel. This is definitely a "leftist" or "activist" matter as you are so fast to claim, but it is serious business and has nothing to do with left or right.
Israeli leaders don't have to travel to Europe, and it's very doubtful that major European companies will implement "BDS" policies against Israel.
I actually take the issue very seriously, but only in an academic sense since, as I said, international law is largely superficial and rarely implemented.
But yes, actually, it's mostly leftists and activists who sincerely think that international law can restrain Israel though they've been proven wrong.
Israel didn't agree to the ceasefire because of last year's genocide ruling, but due to being coerced into it by the US.
There have been absolutely zero consequences of tangible significance to Israel since that ruling was made. It was a non-event in terms of the war's dynamics.
Countries might find all kinds of twisted arguments to not apply the ICC warrant. I don't think the same would be the case for an ICJ ruling finding Israel guilty of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing.
That part is really embeded in national laws since all are signatories of the Genocide Convention and are part of UN. It is not academic and it is nothing to do with left or right, but it has everything to do with idea of justice and law.
And many people take this thing very seriously and they are not leftists nor activists.
I meant to say definitely not a leftist or activist matter.
Zioinist Trump advisors are deluding themselves if they think that ".. this is the only way to decisively end the conflict,...". Further displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank will just re-create the disaster that US troops subsequently endured following the CIA's support for Osama Bin Laden and his efforts to expel the Russian military from Afghanistan. The Taliban then turned on the US and forced an ignominious defeat and withdrawal. Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homeland will simply reinforce their determination to unite and seek revenge on US and Israeli assets for perpetrating this heinous crime.
But you don't seem to take the very real possibility of actual genocide (to the end) into account here. I'd love to think that that simply wasn't going to happen, but the events of the last two years don't offer much encouragement.
Great article! I have also covered Trump's plan for Gaza and the situation there and in Lebanon in my latest: https://open.substack.com/pub/geopolitiq/p/trump-wants-to-expel-palestinians
Well described, a friend from Lebanon once told me that the Palestinians are the Muslim gypsies that nobody wants to take in. He said, you have your gypsies, we have our gypsies!!!
Hence Dugin says the USA is now entering a new Age of Empire.
So is China, Russia, and Israel.
All of the following needs Jews becoming truly independent as a people and nation.
Yes Sinai was at the centre of how to fight this war against Hamas following October 7 which was an existentialist issue for Jews. El Sisi broke the Sadat-Begin treaty, that aspect of things needed to be definitively stated. Central to Hamas was the massive tunnels crossing from Sinai into Gaza through which the arms entered. The border opened not by talk but by force, the civilians could leave, the IDF could be directed to utterly defeat and pressure Hamas, an offer made to the enemy supervised by an independent country which would guarantee their freedom out of the area - in return for unharmed release of the Jewish hostages. End the Arab plantation of Gaza by a wildlife and nature "plantation" which could well become the global centre and focus against global warming caused by the use of fossil fuels used by capitalism. For Jews to recover their soul as a guide to the world in what is surely an earth which will challenge mankind to the fullest extreme, in a completely new form of earth being.
Ethnically cleansing the land of Palestine sounds somehow familiar to me. Hasn't a government in Europe once wanted to "cleanse" the country and create an ethnically pure population? Then the beautiful beaches of Palestine can be divided into parcels, sold at high prices and built with magnificent villas?
The Palestinians can then look for a new home in Egypt and Jordan. I'm curious to see whether the proud Muslim world will swallow all of this without "murmuring"?
Now, let's just remember what Soviet Union did with the natives of East Prussia, Poles with Silesian Germans and Czechs with the Sudeten in 1945-1948 to add context. In retrospect, West-Germany of course profited very much from THAT population transfer. But it didn't exist when that population transfer took place.
I oppose ethnic cleansing, but I also understand the political utility of such a policy. On that topic, a lot of people who bring up immediate post-WWII examples forget the expulsion and coerced migration of Poles from the "Kresy", especially Vilnius/Wilno, which was historically much more Polish than the more popularly mentioned example of Lvov/Lwow.
Sure, but the Poles also moved a lot of Belorussians out to the East post-WW2. And last, there was that Kielce massacre that ensured that the surviving ex-Polish Jews that were already in the West never came back again...
Again, two wrongs don't make a right, and Poland was under Soviet control (or at the very least hegemonic influence if one wants to quibble) so it's inaccurate to describe Warsaw's complicity in what Soviet and Russian academics call "population transfers" as representative of what "Poles" did in the sense of making it seem like it was a sovereign decision and/or representative of the people's will.
You're also misinformed about what happened in Kielce, which was deplorable but not as simple as a pogrom by supposedly inherently anti-Semitic Poles like your very brief swipe makes it seem, which I suspect is motivated by either innocent unawareness of the facts, dislike of Poles and Poland (many leftists and activists have such views), or personal identity (ethno-national and/or religious) factors:
https://eng.ipn.gov.pl/en/digital-resources/articles/7154,Decision-to-Discontinue-the-Investigation-into-the-Kielce-Pogrom-of-October-21-2.html?search=7518775731298
In any case, after having responded to your revisionist claims about Poland and Poles, I honestly don't even understand the point that you were initially trying to make. Why even bring up the immediate post-WWII events that the Soviets were involved in when there wasn't even a single word or remote reference to World War II, the Soviets, or Russia in my analysis?
Did you maybe mistakenly assume that I'm Russian (I'm not but I don't mind being mistaken for one), disagreed with my description of Trump's proposal as ethnic cleansing, and therefore thought you'd make a personally directed political remark to indirectly signal your dissatisfaction because you, for whatever reason, don't feel comfortable simply saying that you disagree with that terminology? Is that it?
Now I see why I sensed your perspective showed a fairly abrupt tilt in the second half of 2024. Abrupt, as I see no transition period. Tilt, because the magnitude of change is not much.
What do you mean? My perspective has remained the same on pretty much everything for the past several years at least. The only recent recalibration was realizing how weak the Resistance Axis was in late September and that most of their PR was just lies and wishful thinking repackaged as facts and analysis.
And because of all that and of what Germans and Japanese did in WWII we have UN and the UN Charter and Geneva Convention and ICJ, etc... To stop repeating these crimes...
Why should the Gazans give up their land any easier than native Americans did?
Jenin will be the new Jewish ghetto in Poland.
Ever notice how ethnic cleansing is Ever always only self-serving? You never read pf ethnically cleansing Jews from Israel.
Anyway, Trump himself doesn't read.
The Prince's act! So decided our "blood brothers" Trump and Bibi.
The new POTUS, as a good businessman, considers with some lust the business opportunities that the territories will constitute once purged of the "Untermensh" who pollute these lands promised to a brilliant future.
It is as simple as that and it does not constitute in any way the slightest moral or legal problem, moreover, our two cronies know pertinently that nothing and no one could effectively oppose their project.
Finally, we know very well what is their opinion regarding international bodies and in particular the ICJ. For them, therefore, it is only a technical problem, that of the industrial cleaning of a vast construction site opening up incredible business opportunities! Once again: 𝙞𝙣 𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩, and, “𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣s!”…
another zionist bandit, it is said that Russia cut off the resistant link. It will have negative impact on Russia existence. It is not my problem, i am living in Australia. Maybe Yahweh will punish zionist mongrels in iSSrahell so they will remember for 1000years.
" i am living in Australia. "
Then you will be a White dot in a sea of brown. Enjoy.