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TRUMP AND NETANYAHU HAVE DEVISED THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY  
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Aida Touma-Sliman
February 17, 2025
Haaretz
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_ Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu presented an imperialist horror show. An American and an
Israeli, each with his own criminal indictments, decided to determine
the future of the Palestinian people. _

Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive
for a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday,
Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington., Photo credit: Evan Vucci,AP // Haaretz

 

The plan for evacuating the residents of the Gaza Strip to other
countries is a war crime, and it being introduced by the president of
the United States is a death sentence for international law. It's the
crime of the century.

Trump talks about Gaza like a capitalist who wants to develop real
estate. He called it a demolition zone
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as it has always been, and invented plans for building a city of the
future without its original residents.

Trump wishes to take over the property with financial support from the
gulf states through a regional peace agreement in an effort to
maximize his profit and control.

When Trump stood next to Netanyahu
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who destroyed almost all of the Gaza Strip
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and talked about America taking over
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the area, it's hard not to think about Netanyahu as his demolition
contractor.

Israel's war of destruction was directed exactly to this end
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to make the Gaza Strip uninhabitable and to find someone who would
accept the evacuees. Many in the government and military said this,
one just needed to listen.

Trump is right in his statement that the scale of destruction in the
Gaza Strip is unimaginable
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and a danger exists for residents between the ruins and unexploded
bombs. But instead of punishing those responsible for the destruction,
he supports them and devises new crimes with them.

Except the crime of the century won't happen, because the Palestinians
won't agree to leave the Gaza Strip and no Arab country will agree
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accept hundreds of thousands of them and be a partner to the crime of
a second Nakba.

In that case, why is Trump promoting this delusional idea? What's his
true goal? Is it a threat that can be used to extort normalization
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Saudi Arabia? Whatever his goal really is, Trump has succeeded in
awakening the darkest forces in the Middle East: Itamar Ben-Gvir and
Bezalel Smotrich, with their delusions of ethnic cleansing and
settlement in Greater Israel.

Such a plan will once again awaken the winds of war and set Arab
countries on fire too. Trump's plan is chaos, without any thought
about the long term, just shooting for its own sake in all directions.

He has another goal, too: Trump has given Netanyahu a political
lifeline
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stability for his government. The government will advance the crime of
the century in meetings, and on the ground it will implement the
doctrine of destruction of the Gaza Strip in the West Bank, too, with
the main goal of annexing territory
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And what about the "opposition" in Israel? Has Benny Gantz come out
against this plan for war crimes? Has Yair Lapid announced he will
firmly oppose the American takeover? No. The "center-left" opposition,
in encouraging "out-of-the-box thinking," are normalizing Kahanism as
the official policy of Israel.

We, Jewish and Arab peace activists on the left, will not give up and
will not remain silent. We will oppose Kahanism and imperialism. We
will oppose the crime of the century as well as the daily crimes of
the occupation and apartheid. We will continue to insist there is only
one solution for Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank: an
independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

_[AIDA TOUMA-SLIMAN is a Palestinian member of the Knesset from the
progressive Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, known as the
Hadash party, part of the Joint List, with Hadash-Ta'al . She was
first elected to the Knesset in 2015.]_

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* Donald Trump
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* Benjamin Netanyahu
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