Trump Commits to Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza

Trump is delivering and then some on his commitment to be a better friend to Israel than even the Biden Administration was, which is a tall order. Recall that Blinken came to be regularly described as Netanyahu’s lawyer.

Many thought that Trump was simply throwing bouquets at Israel when he repeated the Blinken demand, that had been firmly, even fiercely, rejected by Egypt and, Jordan, that it enable Israel’s ethnic cleansing and accept what were then over 2 million Gazans. After Trump’s recent statement, the Arab League also voiced opposition. Forcibly displacing Palestinians into Jordan and Egypt would destabilize both governments and experts have said it would probably lead to their fall.

When challenged that both countries had already said no, Trump insisted the displacement would proceed. And he is going ahead. From Larry Johnson:

Trump announced tonight he wants to take over Gaza:

The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job, do something different. Just can’t go back. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.

Trump also insisted that the Palestinians will be relocated to a third country (unspecified) and will not have a right to return. This was scripted. You can see Trump is reading from a note card. Trump claims he has talked this over with Arab leaders in the region and that they are in favor of the deal. That is a lie.

Powerful Arab nations rejected President Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestiniansfrom Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.

Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League released a joint statement rejecting any plans to move Palestinians out of their territories in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Johnson, who had earlier thought the Trump talk of evicting the Gazans was bluster, now believes that Trump has gotten Netanyahu to agree to not further attacks on Iran as he tries to work out a bargain. Putting US forces in Gaza might also be intended to force Netanyahu to continue the ceasefire. But as Johnson stressed, “Any hope that Trump will help the Palestinians was dashed today.”

Some other hot takes:

BREAKING: During his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump just said he wants to remove 1.7 MILLION Palestinians from GAZA and send them to Egypt, Jordan, or other countries.

This is ethnic cleansing. No wonder he just pulled the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council. This is a crime… pic.twitter.com/b8VkVqbOYv

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 4, 2025

I have news for you – we aren’t taking over Gaza.

But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story – the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 5, 2025

I would not be optimistic that this pronouncement is Canada/Mexico tariffs 2.0. The Israel lobby will expect Trump to deliver.

Trump can fantasize about taking over Gaza all he wants. The Palestinian resistance will ensure that his plans fail, just like they did to Israel, no matter the cost. Gaza may be destroyed, but the resistance’s confidence is at an all time high. After the last 15 months, only an… pic.twitter.com/IOYANTpztB

— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) February 5, 2025

I am taking the liberty of posting a new Alon Mizrahi post in full, given that he states that his aim is to get his message out to as many people around the world as quickly as possible. As you can see, he believes that time is of the essence if there is to be any hope of saving the Palestinians.

Frederick Douglass would concur with Mizrahi on the importance of a concrete demand, here, that governments sever all ties with Israel:

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

For those new to Mizrahi, please see his About page. Consider taking a gander though his posts. For instance, this one, Pilot Cult: The White Supremacy Behind Israel’s Ill-Fated Iran Strategy, delivered on its provocative headline.

By Alon Mizrahi, a publicist, thinker, and Israeli in exile. Originally published at his Substack

Hey everybody, as Trump takes office and this new phase of the Palestinian genocide is beginning, we need to start thinking what we’re doing wrong. Why we’re not achieving any strategic goal or advancing anywhere as a movement of people who are for humanity and for Palestine. And in this video, I’m gonna talk about what we’re doing wrong and how to write it, how to make it better. So I really want as many people as possible to watch this and understand and internalize this. So please, this one, share it with as many friends relatives, people who are part of this movement and want the Palestinian people to survive this. This is the key.

We want the Palestinians to survive Trump and Netanyahu. And if we don’t act now in a strategic, sustained manner, we may fail and we can’t afford to fail. We can’t afford to fail. This is critical. What I’m going to talk about is critical. So listen carefully and share it with everyone who is involved in this struggle.

What we lack, what the pro-Palestinian movement lacks is a clear demand. This is the first thing we are lacking. There is no demand being made by any part of this big group of people. No clear demand. Second thing is coordination. There is no coordination. Protests and groups do their thing in their own way
local small places, but they are not coordinated. So it cannot become a bigger struggle, bigger movement. I’m not going to talk about the coordination today. I am going to talk about the demand. But this goes directly to the heart of what we’re doing and what we want to achieve. So offline, we are disconnected. scattered and disconnected.

I’m not gonna get into it now, but this is enough for this video. Online, we are scattered and disconnected in our attention. We are being distracted by bits and pieces of information and innuendo. We are focusing and dedicating time and energy To two things, especially with Trump, refuting what Trump says and rebuking what Trump says.

And this may give short-term satisfaction, but strategically it’s a waste of time and energy because it gets us nowhere. It accomplishes nothing. Don’t waste time and energy on rebuking and refuting Trump. He said this about Mexico, but this is not right. He said this about Canada, but let us tell you what the truth really is.

All of this is a waste of time. This is liberal opposition. We need to be radical. We need to be radical now. to be political and to give life to our agenda, to your agenda. We need to do two things. One is focus our messaging on what our opponent is doing and not what they’re saying.

And we need to focus our efforts at disrupting our opponent’s agenda. not chasing whatever he says any moment. He has Twitter and all his people have Twitter and they can say any stupid, ridiculous thing any minute. This is not what we should be focusing our attention on. We should be doing something else entirely.

We should be focusing on what he’s doing and how we disrupt it. It should be crystal clear by now that Trump intends to allow Israel to carry out a once and for all solution to the Palestinian problem. We know this, and this is what we should be focused on globally, all of us.

Our mission is to interrupt and disrupt this, make it impossible for them to do it. How do we do that? How do we do that? So here is my task for each and every one of us, any one of you, wherever you’re watching this. Whether you’re from Singapore or anywhere, if you’re in Cairo, if you’re in Melbourne,
if you’re in Paris, we all have the same task, which I’m defining right now. What we need to do, what you need to do, any group of activists, anywhere, everywhere, is demanding This is the demand. Listen carefully. We need to demand our government, your government, wherever you are,
to commit unequivocally and publicly to cutting all ties with the state of Israel if Israel pursues the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Do you get this? This is our demand that we should be making.

Everywhere. Everywhere. We should go. You should go. This is your main goal now. This is your main goal now. Believe me.

Go to your representative. And if you’re a journalist, make this, address this question, this demand at your representatives and at your government. And demand that they commit in a very clear and unequivocal way to sever all ties with the state of Israel, if Israel pursues, follows, tries to accomplish the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. This is a demand.

This is a demand. All ties, meaning academic, diplomatic, economic. All ties. All ties. And this is the demand we should be making and we should be making it now. We should be making it now. We should be making this demand of our governments. All governments. All governments in all countries, wherever you are.
This is what you should be demanding now. This is what you should be demanding now. This is disrupting Trump and Netanyahu now. Now, before the Holocaust, before the ethnic cleansing. And making this demand is your right as a citizen and a person. This is your right.

Don’t waste your time on making jokes on Twitter about how stupid and deranged Trump is. We know he’s stupid and deranged. We know what you should be doing. Your job is to not allow them to accomplish their plans. This is your job. This is your responsibility. This is your task. This is what you should be focusing.

Now, now, don’t wait a single day. We haven’t a single day to spare in this struggle. Netanyahu is in Washington now. They are making their plans now. Next week, they are going to start carrying them out. And this is for all countries. If you’re Chinese, ask your government this. if you’re Russian, if you’re Egyptian, if you’re Spanish, if you’re Australian, if you’re Dutch, wherever you are, whatever your identity, you need to address your government this, thus, this way, like this. Are you going to sever all ties with the state of Israel if it is trying to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people?

Simple, this is my demand as a citizen, as a human being, as a person. Make it clear that this is your demand. Make it clear that this is your demand. Forget about Trump’s tweets and idiocy. This is his tactic of keeping you off balance and forever not on point, not political.

This should be a unifying, unified, single strategy for the near-time future. We need to make the whole world aware of Israel’s and the US’s plan to ethnically cleanse and potentially kill the Palestinian people. We are seeing what’s going on in the West Bank. This is not only Gaza. We need to make this
understanding, stance, demand, clear everywhere on this planet. And we have the power to do it. We have internet connection. We have press conferences. We can do it. We can make this present. We can talk about it and we can make this demand and it will become part of the political landscape. We have to force them

We have to force the political landscape to have this point. And we have to do it now. We have to do it right this minute. Right this minute. This is the critical, urgent mission that all of us have.

Demand your government to take actual steps. Demand it. Don’t ask it. Don’t ask for it. Demand it. Demand your government or your state if you’re in the U.S. It is your right as an American citizen not to be part of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Don’t listen to what anyone says. This is your right as a human being.

So demand it from your state. Demand it from California. Sever all ties with the state of Israel if it tries to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians. Demand it from Yom municipality. Demand it from Madrid and Rome and Istanbul. Make a demand. Make it now.

Silence is complicity.

And not making a demand and not being politically alive and aware and active now is being directly involved and supportive of the Palestinian genocide. So make this demand and make it now. Thank you.