He says that Hamas must release all its hostages by noon on Saturday, or he will cancel the ceasefire and “let all hell break out”. On Tuesday evening, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed suit, confirmed Israel “will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated” if the demand is not met.
Since Trump’s relocation plans are wholly contrary to the terms of the ceasefire agreement, it is scarcely surprising that Hamas has stopped their implementation of it, though Hamas cites Israeli non-compliance with the agreement as their reason for not releasing more Israeli hostages.
The ceasefire agreed on 15 January, following mediation by the US, Egypt and Qatar, might just survive the crisis this week. But Trump’s demarche has already sabotaged the very idea of an Israel-Palestine peace deal by offering Netanyahu and his government the alternative option of getting rid of the Palestinians altogether. This policy was in the past openly espoused only by the ethno-nationalist far right in Israel.
Gaza war has nurtured more hate than any conflict since 1945
Read MoreTrump meets Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday to press him to receive Palestinians from Gaza. He will threaten to cut off US aid to Jordan and Egypt, if they do not accept the relocation of the Palestinians to their territory. Both countries have rejected this and, whatever their financial needs, dread being seen by their own populations as complicit with the US in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, something which might destabilise their rule.
Governments in the region will know that the expulsion of millions of Palestinians from Gaza may soon be followed by the forced relocation of all or part of the three million Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. The newly-appointed US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, says that he believes that “there is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as [an Israeli] settlement”.
The US would hand over to the IDF, which has already destroyed or damaged 90 per cent of the buildings in Gaza, the task of bringing the conflict to an end, something that would mean an even bigger bloodbath.
When Trump said that Palestinians would be relocated from Gaza, his officials claimed their removal would be temporary, only to have Trump contradict them and say explicitly that they would have no right of return.
As with other autocratic leaders, notably Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Vladimir Putin in Russia, supreme power has further eroded whatever judgement he ever possessed. Like them, his advisers are for the most part courtiers who echo his most ill-informed and demented views.
Saddam Hussein launched disastrous wars against Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990. Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, having convinced himself that the Russian army would have a walkover. Millions died because of their mistakes. Trump’s intention to preside over the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank may have an equally calamitous impact, ushering in an era of even deeper chaos and violence across the Middle East.
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