Let’s cut to the chase here. If you plan to resettle an entire ethnic group from an area that is their home, you are guilty of ethnic cleansing. There’s no argument. Donald Trump and his criminal plan to turn the Gaza Strip into the ‘MAGA Strip’ is textbook ethnic cleansing.
Indeed, the Britannica listing clearly states:
The attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups. Ethnic cleansing sometimes involves the removal of all physical vestiges of the targeted group through the destruction of monuments, cemeteries, and houses of worship.
Sure, you’ll find my column in the section that says “opinion” on the Canary website, but this isn’t a matter of opinion.
If you (quite rightly) thought genocide Joe was an enemy of the Palestinian people, what do you think about neofascist Donald Trump displacing an entire population from their homes?
Angry? Horrified? Genuinely disgusted by Trump’s outlandish remarks?
Maybe, and understandably so, if you believe every single word a renowned liar with a tendency to treat American policy statements as opening gambits in a real estate negotiation.
But I don’t.
Donald Trump: in reality TV mode
What I saw, beyond the sight of a beaming Benjamin Netanyahu close to getting his first erection for several decades, was the President of the United States in full Reality TV star mode.
You’d think Netanyahu would be happy with rinsing the American people for their tax dollars, while the richest country in the world refuses to afford homes and healthcare for tens of millions of its poorest and most vulnerable people.
Shouldn’t the American people now be asking why their businesses cannot get a state contract if they haven’t promised to obey Israel — in THIRTY SEVEN states?
Just imagine the firm that you work for being forced to pledge allegiance to any foreign country, let alone a genocidal pariah state, if they want to be able to afford to pay your wages.
This is subservient insanity of epic proportions.
I digress.
It wasn’t that long ago that Trump was said to fancy getting his micro-hands on a Nobel Peace Prize.
Can you really imagine the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee simultaneously suffering from a momentary lapse of reason and awarding their coveted prize to a trainee ethnic cleanser that once had the brass neck to compare himself to a modern-day Nelson Mandela?
Not a fucking chance. They’ll be handing out awards to me for contributions to quantum physics before that tangerine twat gets the slightest sniff of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Furthermore, Trump’s superficial plans for the Gaza Strip require absolute cooperation from neighbouring states such as Egypt and Jordan — both of whom are refusing to entertain the possibility of assisting Trump’s vision of the mass ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
And why should they? The Palestinians will remain in Gaza until they die.
Unintended consequences?
I just don’t think Trump, or at least the real decision makers (such as his pro-settler advisers) would be willing to give Russia the licence to expand their operations in Ukraine, because that would be the obvious and immediate consequence of Trump’s America giving notice of their intention to commit a grave and wicked crime against humanity.
Perhaps I’m underestimating the ultranationalist maniac, Trump?
Perhaps he really is foolish enough to think the impunity gifted to Netanyahu by the West as he orchestrated the murder of more than 62,000 humans should also apply to him while he callously attempts to forcibly displace a population of more than two million people.
“Why would they want to live there?”, asks Trump.
I’ll tell you why, you fucking awful, tyrannical stain. It is their home.
Regardless of how many buildings the Israeli terrorists have destroyed, how many innocent lives they have cruelly ended, or how many hospitals, mosques, universities and shops they have completely and utterly levelled, Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people.
We now find ourselves wondering if Starmer’s fraudulent and deeply unpopular government — currently taking a bit of a battering on the domestic front by the repulsive, toad-faced shithouse, Farage — will either completely bend over and drop it’s pants for Trump and Israel or completely bend over and drop it’s pants for Trump and Israel while quietly mumbling a few words about respecting international law.
What started out as Israel’s right to defend itself following 7 October 2023, has somehow ended up being America’s right to forcibly displace more than two million people, just sixteen months later?
This Zionist ideology is somewhat troublesome, don’t you think?
Where is Starmer in all this?
If Keir Starmer truly believes in international law being applied equally and fairly — and I am yet to see anything that suggests that he does — he should be raising serious objections, both publicly and privately at the very highest levels.
A real leader would get on the phone to that ridiculous orange affront to human decency and tell him we’re not fucking interested in his chlorinated chicken, and we’ll muddle on by without them.
But I can’t see Starmer’s donors, such as the pro-Israel lobbyists, allowing the already-complicit Prime Minister to go too far with his condemnation of Trump’s impossible plan.
Even though I don’t think Trump will be able to orchestrate anything like he is suggesting, there is no doubt his provocative comments are likely to have a dangerous impact that stretches way beyond the streets of Rafah.
And Trump knows that. That’s why he said it.
Featured image via Rachael Swindon
