Listening to US President Donald Trump’s insane mumblings about expelling all Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt, Jordan or anywhere else – repeated yet again on 11 February when meeting Jordan’s King Abdullah – I was reminded of Adolf Hitler’s infamous speech at the Reichstag on 30 January, 1939.
It was a few weeks after the Evian Conference, called to resolve the terrible problem of Jewish refugees from the German Reich in July 1938. Hitler taunted the leaders of the West, and especially of the US, who refused to take any refugees.
“I ask them, I say, are you prepared to harbor among you those who have poisoned the wells of Germany, of the whole Christian world? Gladly would we give each and every one of them a railroad pass and a thousand-mark note for pocket money to be rid of them.”
In many ways, Trump out-Hitlered Hitler in his press conference with Netanyahu last Wednesday. Like Hitler before him, he has attacked the most-maligned group on earth, which now happens to be the Palestinian people.
Instead of rebuilding Gaza for the traumatised and homeless survivors of US munitions delivered by a state falsely calling itself “Jewish,” Trump intends to “take over Gaza” and rebuild it as the “Riviera of the Middle East”, echoing Netanyahu’s plan of last year. To do that, he intends to force some Arab countries to take in the surviving Palestinians, and remove them from their homeland.
The deal of the century, indeed. (more...)
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