The president continues to swim his colonial absorption plan. But people in Gaza just want to go home. How do we know? Because we asked them.
Palestinian children attend a classroom lesson in a damaged school in Gaza, February 26, 2025.
(Majdi Fathi / Nurphoto via AP)
President Donald Trump sent a fiery storm with a proposal to convert the postwar gas into American controlled “Riviera,” he cleared away from his Palestinian population. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised this plan ‘Thinking over -the box”
Actually it’s all but.
The idea of Trump is reminiscent of the centuries of colonial thinking, which is shared by British and political Zionist movement; Both groups saw Palestine through the lens of their ambitions And he considered Palestine’s indigenous Arabs as simple pawns that would move without their needs and aspirations.
Proponents of political Zionism regularly talked about their desire to see Palestine from their Arab residents to give way to Zionist project. They saw their enterprise As “Europe’s shaft against Asia … Avam of civilization against barbarism”. The British agreedSeeking to divide the Arab East, maintaining control over Palestine through the creation of a Jewish homeland, which will help ensure their consolidation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Supporting the belief that people should be entitled to self -determination, the United States has sent a commission of famous Americans to survey Arab public opinion to find out what they did rather than their future. A The commission completed What the vast majority of the Arabs rejected: the division or separation of their region, European mandates over them and the creation of a Zionist state in Palestine. What they hoped was an independent, unitary Arab state.
The US Commission report also warned about the conflict when the planned section was moving forward. British Lord Balfur rejected the idea of the poll, saying.
In Palestine, we do not propose to even pass the form of consultations at the request of the current residents.
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After all, Lord Balfur got his way, and the terrible forecasting of the US Commission. The Arab East was divided, and the British mandate was introduced into Palestine, which the British used to form Jewish immigration, which led to the creation of Israel. Since then, the Palestinians have been dissolved, displaced and undergoing constant violence. Because they resisted, In the last century He was one of the continuous conflicts, the culmination of which was the genocide in the gas and crush the Western shore.
When the UN divided Palestine in 1948, the population of the district, which was supposed to form a Jewish state, was almost evenly divided between the Arabs and the Jews. In the next war, Jewish forces seized more land from which they expelled more than 700,000 Palestinians, and then demolished more than 400 their villages to make sure they could not return. Israel’s new leader David Ben Gurion noted it as “a double miracle … more land and less Arabs.”
Over the last three quarters of the century, the conflict, which was born of the inability to recognize the Palestinian rights and their commitment to their houses and the Palestine land, continued to breed the region, taking on Israelis and Palestinians.
In this context, it is important to understand that 80 percent of Gaza residents are descendants of refugees from this war in 1948. For them, Mr. Trump’s proposal is not “leaving the box”. This is the same old disrespect for their rights, planting new seeds that will have bitter fruits in the coming years.
Because what the Palestinians want conducted two separate polls of the Palestinian opinion Through the west shore and gas. Our conclusions were quite revealing.
The scale of the destruction came through quite clearly: 54 percent of the gas stations that reported to the family members died or disappeared, and 55 percent reported that the war had been forced to move at least five times since the safety for their families.
Our poll leaves little doubt about the short -term desires of the Palestinians in Gaza. After the grinding war for more than a year, they just want to exhale, return to their homes and start a long, depleting the reconstruction process. At the main humanitarian and moral level, it should count on something.
When they look at the future, most of all want the Israeli occupation’s knee removed from the back so that they can finally have freedom and independence in their land. If you hand over a number of opportunities that should manage gas at the end of the war, the least favorable options are international or Arab-Islamic coalition. Despite the loss of faith, to varying degrees, both with Hamas and the Palestinian authority (it is considered more positively than Hamas among Palestinians in Gaza, while Hamas exceeds on the western shore), the preferred options for post -war in Gaza are those that provide for the unification of Palestinian. Gaza for the popular referendum on the choice of a new generation of leadership, which can promote a new vision of Palestine.
But most importantly, 92 percent of the Palestinians told us that they wanted to stay in the gas and return to where their homes were. They are Palestinians and want to stay on the land of Palestine. The last thing they want – after 18 months of permanent resettlement and uncertainty – is to be canceled in exile, allegedly by force and abandoned the muddy destiny in an unknown country.
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This is unlike the views that have advanced by Americans and Israelis. Of course, these Palestinian views should be developed further, but the assignment of them is the best way to go precisely because it admits that instead of continuing to impose “decisions” to the Palestinians, the place that needs to be started is to ask what they want, listen, and then work with them.
Palestine needs to decide their own future. Part of the reason that we came to such bloody intersections is that for decades the great forces are disposed of by Palestinians, but they wanted without considering their views.
The message to the President Trump should be clear: the Palestinians will not accept to leave the land of Palestine, and any attempt to hold a mass displacement is likely to go down to another horrible spiral of violence and death. If President Trump wants him to be remembered “outside the box”, he must listen to those whose life hangs on his decisions, 2 million Gaza Palestinians.
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