Trump Collaborates on the Eradication of Palestine

ANGLO AMERICA, 10 Feb 2025

Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service

Note: This article can be considered as the continuation of “Trump’s Hidden Multipolarism”.

30 Jan. 2025 – US President Donald Trump, concerned about the living conditions of the Palestinians living among the rubble mountains in Gaza, repeatedly stated that the Gaza residents should be relocated to Egypt or Jordan as a humanitarian relief measure, and requested the cooperation from Egypt and Jordan. Trump’s proposal was made in conjunction with a plan to rebuild Gaza after the ceasefire (official theory), and the purpose (official theory) is to allow those citizens to live in Egypt and other places with decent living conditions, not among the rubble, until Gaza is rebuilt. Trump made the same statement on 25 and 27 January 2025, emphasizing his seriousness by repeating it. （US President Trump reiterates wish to move Gazans to Egypt, Jordan）

2. The Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan, supported the creation of the Palestinian State (i.e. the two-state, Palestine partition plan) devised by the British (Anglo-American Hegemony) as the measure to prevent the rise of Israel after suffering a disastrous defeat in the Middle East War with Israel, and for this purpose, they have stubbornly refused to allow Gaza citizens to cross the border into Egypt even though Israel destroyed Gaza and worsened the living environment. (Although the Palestinians are Arabs.) The United States and Britain have also supported the Arab attitude. This time, however, Egypt and Jordan clearly refused Trump’s request. Once Gaza citizens are taken out, it is difficult to bring them back. [Resolution 181: The Zionist Dream Comes True | History of Israel Explained] （Why Egypt and other Arab countries are unwilling to take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza）  [The Genesis of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, November 1945: A Case Study in the Assertion of American Hegemony]    [A Tale of Two Hegemons: The Anglo-American Roots of the Postwar International System]    [How British Colonialism Shaped the Future of Israel and Palestine]    [How Britain Destroyed the Palestinian Homeland]   [British Mandate of Palestine]
3. In Israel, the Labor Party once tried to solve the problem by obediently following the demands of the British-American Hegemony and concluding the two-state Oslo Accords. However, it became clear for the Israelis that the State of Palestine, created under the two-state model, (a) would strengthen the Islamist forces that would attack Israel, and (b) could become a new plot by the British to drag Israel into a permanent civil war that could eventually destroy the Jewish state. Therefore, Netanyahu and other right-wing Likud factions (i) assassinated Rabin, (ii) drove out the Labor Party faction, (iii) took power, (iv) blackmailed the United States into cooperation, and (v) began the current trend of trying to eradicate Palestine by expelling the citizens from the West Bank of Gaza and destroying the cities in these regions. （Israel tasks UAE with governing post-war Gaza: Report）
4. Trump entered the politics to destroy the British faction (i.e. Democrats, media authority liberals) that had dominated and controlled the US core (i.e. the US Intelligence Community or the Deep State). Trump became the US President by teaming up with the Israeli (Likud) faction, which had infiltrated the US Intelligence Community and dominated it since the 1970s in opposition to the British faction. Trump’s goal is to liberate the US from the British Rule, and Israel from the yoke of the Palestinian problem, making for the win-win alliance. Trump (i) not only wants to liberate Israel from the yoke of Palestine, (ii) but also wants to ease the tensions between Israel and the Arabs and Iran to stabilize the Middle East, and (iii) will continue to persistently ask the Gazans to move to Egypt.（Trump would like Gazans to live in places without ‘revolution and violence’） [The Deep State Has Long Abused Its Power]    [Deep-Six the Notion of a “Deep State”]    [Deep State: Underbelly of the Intelligence Community]    [Deep State “Intelligence” Threatens Trump, Self-Government]    [A History Of Trump’s Broken Ties To The U.S. Intelligence Community]    [Deep State: Pulling Strings From Behind the Scenes]
5. When asked by Trump if Jordan will accept the Gazans, the King of Jordan asked the US President, “The acceptance for a short or long term?” The King meant that if it was a long term, he would refuse because it would mean to be the cooperation in the eradication of Palestine, but if it was a short term with the clearly defined deadline, he would consider it. Trump gave the ambiguous answer, “It could be either.” （Trump proposes Jordan, Egypt take in Gazans so decimated Strip can be ‘cleaned out’）
6. In order to destroy Gaza and drive its citizens to Egypt, Israel started the Gaza War in October 2023 by inciting Hamas to attack the Jewish state. And now, with Trump returning to the US Presidency, the Ceasefire has come. Considering the timing of the start of the War and the Ceasefire, one could speculate that Israel has started the Gaza War in (prior) consultation with Trump. When Trump resumed his election campaign in the summer of 2023, Israel began preparing for the War with Trump’s approval.（Israel launches ‘counterterrorist operation’ in West Bank）
7. Trump must have told Israel that if it was going to go to war, it should end the war before he became the US President. It would take time to drive out the Gazans, so Israel immediately began the preparations for the war and started it two months later. Israel divided Gaza into the north and south, and did not allow the Gazan citizens who had fled to the south to return to the north. The population of the northern Gaza is estimated to have dropped from 1.5 million to less than half a million. The cities in the northern Gaza have been completely destroyed. It deemed that Israel had accomplished the eradication and ethnic cleansing of the northern Gaza. （State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid）
8. However, this time, after the Ceasefire began, Israel allowed the Gazan citizens who had evacuated to the southern Gaza to return to the north. The Netzarim Corridor Checkpoint, which separated the south and north, was opened to the free passage, and 600,000 to 1 million Gazans returned to the north on foot, setting up tents among the piles of rubble and resuming their lives. What does this mean? Israel has allowed the Gazans to return freely, even though it spent more than a year depopulating and ethnically cleansing the northern Gaza. It will be difficult to expel these citizens who have returned to the north back to the south. The Gaza Ceasefire is supposed to end on 1 March 2025. The Jerusalem Post has analyzed that Israel will not attack northern Gaza after that. Unless Israel intends to continue the Ceasefire after that date, it would not allow the Gazan citizens to return to the north. （Can Israel return to war with Gaza’s north repopulated? – analysis） [Trump’s interactions with Israel’s Netanyahu draw fresh scrutiny]    [Trump, Netanyahu speak about Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal, Axios reports]    [Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in north Gaza: ‘The war has taken everything precious to us’]
9. Why did Israel allow the Gazan citizens who had evacuated to the south to return to the north? Israel’s goal was to drive the Gazans to Egypt and those citizens of the north to the south and eventually to eliminate Palestine itself. Did Israel fail to achieve this goal and give up and allow the return to the north? No, not at all, because Trump has just returned to power, so that there is no way Israel will give up its goal. It is sure that Trump will make his utmost effort until the end of his term to realize what Israel wants. Israel is now in the state of a free reign. The return of the Gazans to the north has been realized because that is what Israel wants.
10. If the return of the Gazan citizens to the north would benefit Israel, what would that be? There is one possibility. Since the “Second Round of the Abraham Accords,” in which Saudi Arabia officially reconciles with Israel and normalizes the diplomatic relations, is likely to be realized, Israel is realizing the Ceasefire in Gaza and the return of the Gazan citizens to the north, which Saudi Arabia would be happy about. It may also be aimed at returning the Gazans of the northern Gaza and showing them the rubble-filled cities to make them realize that the resettlement and the reconstruction could be impossible.（Israel downplays PA role in postwar Gaza, denies promising Saudis a Palestinian state）
11. For the past few days, Israel has entrusted the management of the Rafah Crossing on the Gaza-Egypt Border to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank. This is also a strategy of Israel, aimed at satisfying Saudi Arabia, which has made the establishment and existence of the State of Palestine as the condition for the reconciliation with Israel by making it appear as if the Palestinian statehood is functioning in Gaza. Hamas, which has ruled Gaza, is Israel’s enemy, but the PA has a strong coloring of the Israeli puppet.   [Rafah Border Crossing]  （Israel, Egypt agree on PA management of Rafah Crossing）  [PA President Mahmoud Abbas: A Puppet in the Hands of Israel and the US?]    [President Mahmoud Abbas: pragmatic politician or regional puppet?]    [The puppet authority is killing the Palestinians]    [How the Palestinian Authority Failed Its People]   [Palestinian Authority suppresses criticism of Jenin operation in West Bank]   [Palestine, Israel and the US: Puppets and puppeteers]
12. Gaza ceases fire, their citizens return to the north, and the PA manages Rafah. Will the Saudi Monarchy be satisfied with such a small spectacle and acknowledge the existence of the State of Palestine? Under the previous circumstances, Saudi Arabia would not be satisfied. However, the current situation in the Middle East is different from before. Since the autumn of 2024, Israel has (a) defeated the Iranian faction, (b) overthrown Syria and turned it into its puppet, and (c) been emerging as the strongest power in the Middle East. Both Trump and Putin support this strong Israel. This situation will continue for many years to come. The British and the liberal factions that created the Palestinian problems and put pressure on Israel are now rapidly weakening, losing to the right-wing and the non-American sides such as Trump and Putin. There is nothing to be gained by the Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia clinging to Palestine, which is being erased. The Arabs are realists and do not stick to the dogmatic causes or good and evil. If there is a good reason, they will move away from the cause. （Trump signals he may defy hardliners and talk to Iran）
13. Yemen, which is located behind Saudi Arabia, has been ruled by the Iranian Houthi faction until now, but Israel has recently been ferociously attacking the Houthis. There is a possibility that Yemen could be turned into an Israeli puppet state like Syria.  It is 2,000 km from Israel to Yemen, but Israel recently rented part of the airport built by the UAE in Somaliland to use as an Israeli air base. (That is why Trump wants to recognize Somaliland as a state.)  Somaliland is located only 200 km from Yemen, so that the Israeli military aircraft can bomb Yemen immediately.  If Yemen is overthrown and becomes an Israeli puppet state in the future, Saudi Arabia will be sandwiched between Israel from both the north and the south. Therefore, it would be better for Saudi Arabia to reconcile with Israel in terms of security.（Sowing chaos: Israel’s influence in the Horn of Africa）  [Why is UAE building a military base in Somaliland?]    [Why is Israel interested in relations with Somaliland?]    [UAE And Israel To Establish Milirary Base In Northern Somalia] [Israel’s strategic interest in establishing a base in Somaliland]    [The Strategic Importance of Recognizing Somaliland for Israel’s Security]
14. At the same time as the Ceasefire in Gaza, the UAE, which is the younger brother of Saudi Arabia and already has the diplomatic relations with Israel, is preparing to cooperate in the reconstruction of Gaza (or so they say). The UAE is showing the world the illusion that Gaza will ceasefire and be rebuilt, and is beginning the scheme to create a situation in which its older brother Saudi Arabia can normalize the diplomatic relations with Israel. Israel has not stopped its plan to erase Palestine. However, in order to normalize the diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, Israel is implementing the ceasefire for now, creating a (perfunctory) picture as if the PA had begun to manage Gaza, and the UAE also began to pretend to cooperate in the reconstruction of Gaza. （Israel and UAE agree on ‘Day After’ plan in Gaza）  （Trump-Netanyahu to meet Tuesday as Witkoff heads to Israel）
15. Once the preparations are complete, Trump will resume his plan to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Israel. First, Netanyahu will visit the US in early February 2025.  If Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Islamic countries, reconciles with Israel, the Islamic countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Algeria, and Libya will follow suit and normalize the diplomatic relations with Israel. Trump was very hostile towards Iran in his first term, but recently he has said he will reconcile with Iran.  If the Arab and Islamic countries reconcile with Israel, Iran will follow suit.  At that time, Trump will reconcile with Iran and give them a “reward.”  Putin has already signed the strategic agreement with Iran the other day, which is like the “reward in advance.” （Is Trump really ready to negotiate with Iran?）  [Trump and Netanyahu to Meet at White House Amid Ceasefire in Gaza]
16. Once all the reconciliation is realized and a break is reached, Trump’s theory that “Even if we work hard to rebuild Gaza, it’s not going well. It would be more realistic and better to move the Gazan citizens to Egypt or other places” will be brought up again. Everyone will make peace with Israel, the forces clinging to the Palestinian cause will become smaller, and the only option left for the Gazans will be to move them to Egypt. Once Gaza is over, the talk will turn to those issues on the emigration of the West Bank people to Jordan. Only the area around the pilgrimage road from Jordan to the Temple Mount in the East Jerusalem will become Palestine (or the Jordanian territory). （Abraham Accords-II?） 

    17.     The above-mentioned scenario is outrageous according to the conventional common understanding on the Palestinian problems.  It has also been considered the delusion of the far-right settlers. Trump and Netanyahu have probably been drawing up this kind of scenario for some time.  However, will it really come true?  If it does not come true, the biggest reason is that many Palestinians refuse to emigrate to Egypt or Jordan.  Even when offered a good living environment, they refuse, and want to continue living among the rubble mountains in Gaza and the West Bank. （UAE to take responsibility for post-war Gaza to ensure ‘no threats to Israel’）  [Palestinians reject Trump’s relocation plan as they return to Gaza’s north]    [Why Egypt and Jordan reject Trump’s Palestinian refugee plan]    [These Palestinians Refuse to Leave Gaza City – Facebook] 

    18.     The Israeli Army (i.e. the IDF) reduced most of Gaza to ruins after a year and four months of the War. The IDF took over the border between Gaza and Egypt (the Philadelphia Corridor), which had been controlled by Egypt, and placed it under the Israeli control, probably creating several loopholes to encourage the Gazans to flee to Egypt.  Egypt resisted, but accepted the financial assistance from the United States to ease its economic difficulties. It seemed that Israel’s erasure of Gaza would be successful. (Gaza Ceasefire and the Resumption of the Negotiation on the Abraham Accords)

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19. Actually, however, not many Gaza citizens left for Egypt. It is reported that around 200,000 people left the country. (The media and political activists who report on Palestine are those pro-Hamas and anti-Israel. Therefore, there is some possibility of distortion. However, if 1 million of the 1.5 million residents of the northern Gaza return this time, most of them will have remained in Gaza. The number of the returnees to the north is also unclear.)     [PA envoy says 80,000-100,000 Gazans crossed into Egypt since October 7]
20. It has been reported that no one could leave the country because the agents who guided the people to leave demanded high fees, but that is probably not true. Israel has spies in Gaza and could have taken measures such as spreading information about the loopholes to lower the average agent’s fees. The densely populated society of the closed Gaza is very united and restrained under the umbrella of Hamas and the Islamic clergy. Besides, the Gazan citizens are expected to fulfill the Palestinian Cause and are not allowed to escape to Egypt. It is similar to the wartime Japanese society, where the cooperation with the war was the absolute good and it was very difficult to deviate from it. （Gazan Refugees in Egypt Are in a Hellish Limbo）[‘Death itself could not get us out of here!’ Gazans reject Trump’s proposal]    [Israel Quietly Pushed for Egypt to Admit Large Numbers of Gazans]    [The Underground Network Helping Gazan Refugees Survive in Egypt]
    
    21.     Even if the Anglo-American and liberal ideology declines in the future, and even if the Arab countries, including Iran, stop being hostile to Israel and abandon Palestine, if the majority of the Palestinians continue to refuse to emigrate, the “Solution by erasing Palestine” will become impossible. Otherwise, almost all of them may simply emigrate and become “Arabs.”

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After graduating from university, Sakai Tanaka started working at the Kyodo News  Agency in 1986. From 1997 he joined Microsoft Network (MSN) and in 1999, due to change of policy at Microsoft, he became an independent journalist. Tanaka has published more than twenty books on international affairs, some translated and published in China, South Korea and Taiwan. He studied at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001 and in 2005 was invited to serve as a senior researcher at the Royal Faisal Institute in Saudi Arabia. Website: tanakanews.com

Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. Having worked as researcher, development program/project officer, legal protection/humanitarian assistance officer, human rights monitor-negotiator, managing-editor, and more, he prefers a peaceful and prudent life.  His previous work experiences, including those in war zones and war-torn zones, constantly remind him of the invaluableness of peace.

Translation: Satoshi Ashikaga – Google Translate

Original in Japanese:  パレスチナ抹消に協力するトランプ

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