It’s indispensable: it’s necessary to be concerned about Trump’s new expansionist threat: the US would take control of the Gaza Strip, a proposal that many sectors of world opinion have taken to be another stage in the process of “ethnic cleansing” carried out by Israel against the people of Gaza.
German Ayala Osorio*
The octogenarian US president said: “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we’ll do a job with it too. We will be its owners, and we will be responsible for clearing all the unexploded bombs and other weapons we find there”.
Regarding Gaza, we will do whatever is necessary, if it’s necessary we will do it”, he said. “We will occupy this area develop it, creating thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something that the whole Middle East can be proud of”. Although some White House spokespersons tried to moderate the extent of what Trump said, what’s certain is that relocating the almost two million inhabitants who are presently returning to the devastated area can serve well to consolidate a forced displacement benefitting the interests of the construction companies.
These are certainly very interested in participating in the massive business deals involved in what will be the rebuilding and gentrification of the area. The redevelopment of this territory would be tied to proposals for tourist development put forward by the big hotel chains.
If the gentrification projects are motivating the US to control Gaza, it could be inaugurating a kind of “ethnic cleansing” by means of the spatial relocation of this suffering people, a hoped-for assimilation and a forced socio-economic and political integration which will end in altering the interest of Hamas in maintaining the sympathy of the Palestinians.
The forced resettlement of the Palestinian people, while they begin the work of clearing mines and gentrification has already been taken by several neighbouring countries as a risk for the already fragile stability of the Middle East region. In any case, the movement of the Palestinians that began some time ago is now being taken on as a controlled way to continue “cleaning” what the US and Israel consider as something inconvenient, ugly, dirty, barbarous, illegitimate, ungodly and even sinful.
In the new Trump era, the world is dangerously approaching the normalization of a xenophobia against migration through political and economic actions and ethno-cultural discourses that are aimed at constructing a “new enemy” for the US and Europe: Latinos, people that are today being expelled from the US with the label of “criminals and of being a threat to national security”.
*Germán Ayala Osorio: Social communicator, journalist and political scientist, author of the blog La otra tribuna.
(Translated by Graham Douglas) – Photos: Pixabay
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