Last week, President Trump waxed eloquently about turning Gaza into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” It wasn’t the first time Donald Trump or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, looked covetously at Gaza.
Not a criticism of what you wrote, Hal, just one technical suggestion: strictly speaking, genocide refers to the murder of an entire people, while ethnic cleansing can include the forcible transfer of an ethnic - or other - group of people. I mention this only because so many people are utilizing these terms so frequently.
Marc is correct. Ethnic cleansing would have been the correct term to use. Forceful transfer of a population does qualify as genocide when the purpose of the transfer is the destruction of the identity of that population.
The big question is who will take the Palestinians in? Also what about the Hamas terrorists embedded in the population? What country would want to risk terrorists settling there? Who is going to pay for all of this? Trump says that America will own Gaza. I, as an American citizen, do not agree to this. America should not be in the business of buying a country to develop a resort!
Yes, Trump’s proposal as presented last week is not practical or politically possible - but the logic behind something like it is unavoidable. Continuing to throw US, U.N., and other global funds to Hamas and the PLA will continue the revolving wars of the last 75 years.
Gaza is uninhabitable today. I read an article about using a portion of the Sinai peninsula as a temporary landing spot for Gazans- and possibly annexed by Gaza as it is sparsely populated by Egyptians today. That would provide some time period for some form of reconstruction by Arab and non-Arab groups that have a join a long term solution.
I don’t like Trump’s persona but I salute his initiative to do something to solve the problems left to the world because the UN was powerless in the face of Arab opposition to a solution in the late 1940s.
While I agree with your essay that the Trump/Kushner plan for Gaza is preposterous, I take strong exception to your use of the word genocide for the proposed relocation of Palestinians. Netanyahu's response to the murderous attack on innocents in Israel on October, 7 2023 was and is an atrocity, however it was not a genocide perpetrated against Palestinians. I am an American who is Jewish whose ancestors (my grandparents) emigrated from what is now Ukraine at the turn of the Century. My ancestors were victims of pogroms and forced relocation. As unjust as this was it certainly worked out to the benefit of these migrants who came to America and for America itself.
Not a criticism of what you wrote, Hal, just one technical suggestion: strictly speaking, genocide refers to the murder of an entire people, while ethnic cleansing can include the forcible transfer of an ethnic - or other - group of people. I mention this only because so many people are utilizing these terms so frequently.
Marc is correct. Ethnic cleansing would have been the correct term to use. Forceful transfer of a population does qualify as genocide when the purpose of the transfer is the destruction of the identity of that population.
The big question is who will take the Palestinians in? Also what about the Hamas terrorists embedded in the population? What country would want to risk terrorists settling there? Who is going to pay for all of this? Trump says that America will own Gaza. I, as an American citizen, do not agree to this. America should not be in the business of buying a country to develop a resort!
Yes, Trump’s proposal as presented last week is not practical or politically possible - but the logic behind something like it is unavoidable. Continuing to throw US, U.N., and other global funds to Hamas and the PLA will continue the revolving wars of the last 75 years.
Gaza is uninhabitable today. I read an article about using a portion of the Sinai peninsula as a temporary landing spot for Gazans- and possibly annexed by Gaza as it is sparsely populated by Egyptians today. That would provide some time period for some form of reconstruction by Arab and non-Arab groups that have a join a long term solution.
I don’t like Trump’s persona but I salute his initiative to do something to solve the problems left to the world because the UN was powerless in the face of Arab opposition to a solution in the late 1940s.
While I agree with your essay that the Trump/Kushner plan for Gaza is preposterous, I take strong exception to your use of the word genocide for the proposed relocation of Palestinians. Netanyahu's response to the murderous attack on innocents in Israel on October, 7 2023 was and is an atrocity, however it was not a genocide perpetrated against Palestinians. I am an American who is Jewish whose ancestors (my grandparents) emigrated from what is now Ukraine at the turn of the Century. My ancestors were victims of pogroms and forced relocation. As unjust as this was it certainly worked out to the benefit of these migrants who came to America and for America itself.