{"id":118973,"date":"2025-02-06T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118973"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:19:36","slug":"06-05-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118973","title":{"rendered":"The End of \u2018Palestine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The End of \u2018Palestine\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Lee Smith<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump reminds the world that ideas have sell-by dates <\/strong>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 4, 2025 \/ Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Image<\/em><\/span>s<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years\u2014Palestine. During meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, Trump said he was going to move 1.7 million Palestinians out of Gaza. And just like that, he broke the long spell that had captured generations of world leaders, peace activists, and Middle East terror masters alike, who had paradoxically come to regard the repeated failure and haunting secondary consequences of the idea of joint Arab Muslim and Jewish statehood in the same small piece of land as proof of its necessity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Palestine was a misshapen idea from the beginning, engendered by an act of pure negation. The Arabs could have gone along with the U.N.\u2019s partition plan like the Jews did, and chosen to build whatever version of Switzerland or Belgium on the eastern Med in 1948. Instead, they resoundingly chose war. That\u2019s the storied \u201cNakba\u201d at the core of the Palestinian legend\u2014the\u00a0catastrophe<\/em>\u00a0that drove the Arabs from their land and hung a key around the neck of a nation waiting to go home. The Arabs chose the catastrophe; they chose war, based on the premise that they would inevitably win and exterminate the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet despite repeated military failures, and the increasing distance between the first-world powerhouse that the Israelis built and their increasingly war-torn, third-world neighborhood, the global conscience was always predisposed to rebuilding what the Palestinians destroyed. Accordingly, the Palestinian Arabs became a tribe of feral children whose identity was carved out of the relentless vow to eliminate Israel and slaughter the Jews en masse\u2014despite repeated failures, each one more crushing than the last.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump said, enough, we\u2019re not rebuilding Gaza. Time for a new idea\u2014the Gazans have to to go, they can try to start again somewhere else, in a land where every building still standing isn\u2019t already wired to explode.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gazans waged an exterminationist campaign against Israel, and they lost. At any other time in history, save the last 75 years, they would be lucky to lose only territory and not have their legend and language permanently deleted from the book of the living.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What if they won\u2019t go, or if the Egyptians and Jordanians won\u2019t take them? They\u2019ll take them, said Trump. Ah, he\u2019s talking big, but it\u2019s not real, say the experts\u2014after all, he\u2019s a real estate guy, and he\u2019s pretending it\u2019s just another property deal to pressure Hamas\u2014Mar-a-Gaza. You can\u2019t move a million people just like that, says an American electorate that elected Trump because he promised to deport tens of millions of illegal aliens who crossed the U.S. border in the last four years. He\u2019s nuts says the D.C. foreign policy crowd: He\u2019ll destabilize Egypt and Jordan, and undermine America\u2019s best Arab friends and allies in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet Trump is right to see both Egypt and Jordan as paltry constructions with little-to-no ability to project force on America\u2019s behalf, and whose survival depends month to month on American aid. Cairo is useful to the United States only insofar as it, one, makes sure the Suez Canal is open and, two, observes the peace treaty with Israel\u2014i.e., continues its campaign of repression against a populace of 112 million people who can barely afford to buy bread, and many of whose dreams are filled with the same insanity that drives Hamas. The only antidote to this misery that Egypt\u2019s rulers have found is blaming the Zionists next door for the ills of their own society, while torturing religious extremists in their prisons. Maybe when Elon Musk is finished fixing Washington he can conduct an audit of where American money goes in Egypt. Somehow, I doubt he\u2019d get in the door.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi\u2019s problem is that he allowed Hamas to smuggle arms through the Philadelphi crossing into Gaza, thereby violating Egypt\u2019s peace treaty with Israel\u2014which is what we nominally pay him for. From the perspective of Trump, an American president keen to enforce treaty obligations, Sisi has a new chance to prove himself as a friend of America and not a grafting liar by adding a million Gazans\u2014who in the past have been ruled by Egypt and have family names like al-Masri (\u201cthe Egyptian\u201d)\u2014to Egypt\u2019s existing population of 112 million, amounting percentagewise to roughly the same number of\u00a0legal<\/em>\u00a0immigrants that the United States accepts per year. Sisi can deal with the Hamas members among the Gazan immigrants the same way he deals with Muslim Brotherhood militants in his own society\u2014or he can give them all medals for their service. It\u2019s up to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And if not? Well, he might remember that Hosni Mubarak\u2019s regime collapsed not because of Muslim Brotherhood-led street protests during the 2011 Arab Spring but because Barack Obama withdrew his support from the longtime U.S. ally.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With money from the Gulf states, or even Israel, Sisi can afford to absorb Palestinians and might even volunteer to take all of Gaza\u2014the average salary in Egypt at present being the equivalent of $5,000 per year. He can then leave Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah responsible for the rest of the Palestinians in the likely event that Trump, as he did in his first term, encourages Netanyahu to annex the Jordan Valley, or goes a step further and acknowledges Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since the CIA has long treated the Hashemite Kingdom as a key asset, we can expect within the next week\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s David Ignatius to publish an article based on intelligence sources\u2014i.e., U.S. and Jordanian spies\u2014concocting a story about Trump\u2019s rationale for \u201cdestabilizing Jordan.\u201d The reality is that the Jordanians, with U.S. help, put down a Palestinian rebellion in 1970. The country of a little more than 11 million is already estimated to be two-thirds Palestinian, the rest Jordanian tribesmen, and it\u2019s hard to see how adding another 500,000 Palestinians will make it harder for Jordan\u2019s notoriously effective security services to contain their neighbors, especially if the offer includes a few dozen more Black Hawk helicopters. After all, no one will expect the Jordanians to allow Hamas to build a giant tunnel-city stuffed with rocket factories beneath their encampments while giving them billions in foreign aid to pay for it all.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Again, the key players here aren\u2019t Jordan and Egypt but the oil rich Gulf Cooperation Council states, especially Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and of course Qatar. Trump might make Saudi largesse in resettling the Gazans a precondition for the much-hyped prospect of normalizing relations between Riyadh and Jerusalem. Given the fact that Israel regularly attracts nine- and 10-figure investments from Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest funds, the reality is that the Saudis have little to offer Israel except for money applied to exactly this type of local purpose. Moving millions of Gazans who have repeatedly attacked their Israeli neighbors out of what is now a shattered war zone is a sensible investment in the kind of stability that helps rich people get richer.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Arabs and Democrats are only the most vocal of the many opposed to Trump\u2019s initiative. Left-wing governments from Europe to Australia are lining up to pledge their allegiance to the fantasy of a Palestinian state, in the hopes of propitiating Muslim and Arab constituencies at home\u2014whose understanding of \u201cpeace\u201d means eliminating Israel. But even leaving the patent bad faith of those professing \u201cpeace\u201d aside, moving Gazans out of Gaza is the only sane option 14 months after they initiated a campaign of rape, murder, and hostage-taking that brought their own house down on their heads.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After all, what\u2019s more fanciful, moving 1.7 million people out of Gaza, a large portion of whom would simply be required to board air-conditioned buses or walk across the nearby Egypt border, or compelling them to live in a giant rubble field booby-trapped by an Iran-backed terrorist group? Estimates vary as to how long it would take to clear Gaza of explosives\u2014half a decade or more? Fifteen years? Twenty? Are the Gazans supposed to live quietly in tents for the next decade or two while their homes are rebuilt next door? Where? In \u201ctemporary cities\u201d made of\u00a0Dwell Magazine<\/em>-like rehabbed shipping containers built by graduates of Birmingham University? In Hamas\u2019 tunnels?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Regardless, should the Palestinians remain in Gaza, they would invariably return to war no matter how much munificence the Gulf Arab states, the European Union, and perhaps even the U.S. might shower on the toxic sand castle built over the past two decades with billions of Western aid money. Proof the Palestinians can\u2019t and won\u2019t keep the peace is that even after they won a reprieve when Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff forced the Biden administration\u2019s cease-fire on Jerusalem, Hamas and its NGO-supported human shields celebrated in the streets as if the Hamas space program had successfully landed Palestinians on Mars. Even as Israel released jailed murderers, the Gazans paraded Israeli hostages through the ruins of Gaza like trophies of war.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Saudis, Qataris, Emiratis and others who now rend their clothes while lamenting the likely fate of their ant-farm death cult might well have counseled:\u00a0Quiet brothers, you have been spared. Don\u2019t bring attention to yourselves. For the winds of Gaza shift on a whim and who knows if you are not next to be swept away by fate\u2014or the American president.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here is the stark reality: Gazans,\u00a0not just<\/a>\u00a0the enlisted members of the Hamas brigades, waged an exterminationist campaign against Israel, and they lost. At virtually any other time in history, save the last 75 years, they would be lucky to lose only territory and not have their legend and language permanently deleted from the book of the living.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump\u2019s generous offer to the Gazans therefore signals a return to history, but with a twist. Trump has not only spared them, but vowed to provide them with new lives, better lives, work, new homes, a chance to raise their families in peace, an existence not premised on total and permanent war with a more powerful adversary destined to rout them entirely, and would have already done so if not for the objections of other powerful global players.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump, in his innovative mercy, has offered to save the Palestinian people from their own history, and give them a new idea to live by. They should thank their maker for the chance to start anew\u2014and give thanks as well to the American president, who realistically promises them a better future, backed by U.S. global power. Given the repeated failure of the multi-decade-long dream of eliminating and replacing the Jews of Israel, it seems unlikely that the Palestinians will receive a better offer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lee Smith<\/strong> is the author of\u00a0Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic<\/a>\u00a0(2024).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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