abolitionmedia<p><strong>Palestinian Resistance and World Opinion Outraged by Brazen US Colonial Gaza Scheme</strong></p><p></p><p>After US President Donald Trump introduced his “takeover” scheme for the Gaza Strip, which entails the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians recovering from the 15-month-long Zionist genocide, a wave of backlash swept the political scene as world leaders condemned and rejected the plot.</p><p>Trump predicted the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, home to more than two million Palestinians, could become “the Riviera of the Middle East” as he announced his plan to seize the territory, even if it entails the ethnic cleansing of around 2.4 million people.</p><p>“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 this site,” Trump said.</p><p>“The Riviera of the Middle East. This could be something that could be so magnificent,” Trump said at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at which he again voiced hopes that Palestinians could be forced out of their homeland and said the United States would redevelop the territory.</p><p>Although Trump’s rhetoric was blunt, the idea of forcibly displacing Palestinians from their homeland has been a recurring theme in Zionist discourse since the establishment of the occupation. Often referred to with terminology like “transfer” or “incentivized immigration,” these terms have long served as a facade for what is, in effect, ethnic cleansing. The strategy has relied on making life in the occupied territories increasingly intolerable, pushing millions of Palestinians into permanent displacement under the guise of voluntary relocation.</p><p>Now, Trump sets his sights on the ravaged Palestinian territories for a new urban development project, a plan that, if realized, would result in the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.</p><p>Meanwhile, a smug Netanyahu said that Trump’s plan for the US to take control of the Gaza Strip would “change history.” The Zionist prime minister said, “It’s worth paying attention to” Trump’s ideas on Gaza.</p><p>The US president further explained that he expected the US to take “long-term ownership” of the Gaza Strip, saying that it would create “thousands of jobs” in the region. He also called for the displacement of Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip, after previously suggesting that they be housed in Egypt and Jordan on a permanent basis.</p><p>He said that he would not allow for “the rebuilding and occupation” of Gaza by the same people, instead floating the idea of a US takeover of the besieged territory.</p><p>“It should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there,” he said.</p><p>“I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East,” Trump told reporters.</p><p>“This was not a decision made lightly, everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land,” he boasted.</p><p>Despite regional governments, parties, and Palestinians rejecting the displacement of Palestinians Trump continued to tout the idea, making it the focal point of Tuesday’s meeting with Netanyahu.</p><p>“We continue to press for this idea that Jordan and Egypt take Palestinians from Gaza,” he said. “Yeah, I would like to see Jordan, I’d like to see Egypt take some [Palestinians].”</p><p>Reports state that Jordan, a long participation in US and Zionist colonialism, is potentially preparing to declare war on the entity if the US scheme moves forward. Another US imperialist puppet, the Egyptian state, released a statement strongly opposing the scheme stating it is a threat to Egyptian national security and could put the Camp David Accords at risk.</p><p>Universally the project was condemned by nation-states and political organizations. For instance, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro weighed in on former US President Donald Trump’s remarks about Gaza, warning that such a move could trigger an even worse war.</p><p>“They are about to ignite the worst war, based on their belief that they are God’s chosen people,” Petro said.</p><p>He emphasized that “God’s people are not white Americans or ‘Israelis.’ God’s people are all of humanity.”</p><p>The Palestinian Resistance also issued harsh condemnation of US colonial ambitions in Palestine.</p><p><strong>Hamas</strong> condemned Trump’s statements “in the strongest terms.” “We affirm that these statements are hostile to our people and our cause and will not serve stability in the region. Rather, they will pour oil on the fire. We will not allow any country in the world to occupy our land or impose guardianship over our great Palestinian people who have offered rivers of blood to liberate our land from occupation and to establish our Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital.”</p><p>Hamas called on Trump to retract his statements, which they deemed irresponsible and at odds with international law. They called on the Arab League and UN to address these comments.</p><p><strong>Palestinian Islamic Jihad</strong> considered that Trump’s comments, made while receiving the wanted Netanyahu, “are nothing more than a new version of the ill-fated Balfour Promise—where those who have nothing are promised to those who do not deserve it.”</p><p>They called the event “a meeting between the war criminal and the arrogant real estate mogul, which epitomized the reality of the American-zionist project in our region.” This project works through intimidation, brute force, and genocide, “flouting all laws, regulations, and the will of our peoples.”</p><p>PIJ affirmed that these statements leave no doubt that the US is leading a war of genocide, displacement, and the expansion of occupation. They considered Trump’s plans, from ending UNRWA to seizing land, are a dangerous escalation that threatens regional security.</p><p>PIJ concluded: “Our Palestinian people, who have been resisting for over a hundred years, will not succumb to the dictates of Trump or anyone else. His foolish statements will only serve as motivation for us to reinforce our resistance until we achieve our objectives of liberating our land and ending the occupation. Our Palestinian people and their resistance forces are more determined and resolute than ever in confronting these conspiracies, and we call on the Arab and Islamic peoples to stand against this conspiratorial project, which targets all the peoples of our region and portends serious impending threats.”</p><p><strong>The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine</strong> was similarly direct: Gaza is not a real estate project.</p><p>They considered the statements “nothing but an extension of the genocide war waged by the Zionist enemy under the direct American cover, and an attempt to establish a new colonial project based on ethnic cleansing and the uprooting of our people from their land.”</p><p>They added: “Gaza is not a commodity in the hands of a war merchant like Trump or anyone else; rather, it is an integral part of historical Palestine, which stretches from Ras al-Naqoura to Rafah, and it is the gateway upon which the forces of colonialism have repeatedly crashed throughout history.”</p><p>“Any dream of controlling Gaza is merely an illusion that will shatter against the rock of the steadfastness and resistance of our people, and the fate of any American occupation force in the Strip will be no different from that of the zionist enemy; our people will confront it with all their strength and determination, just as they repelled the zionist aggression.”</p><p>“Gaza will forever remain a graveyard for invaders and an oasis of steadfastness and resistance for its free and dignified people.”</p><p>The PFLP called on all people to “confront this colonial scheme.” “We especially urge the active forces in the United States to take to the streets and declare their rejection of this new crime, which reflects the true face of American imperialism that colludes with the zionist occupation. Our struggle against this colonial, extirpatory project is the battle of all free peoples who reject colonialism, displacement, and the uprooting of a free people from their land.”</p> <p><strong>The Mujahideen Movement</strong> strongly condemned the statements of Trump and those around him. They considered the statements to reflect a determination to continue aggression against the Palestinian people. They noted that attempts to obstruct reconstruction serve the zionist agenda. They affirmed that Trump will not achieve what Biden was not able to. “The genocide committed by the Nazi zionists with American weaponry failed to displace our people, and Trump’s threats will not succeed in what their criminal arms failed to achieve.</p><p>The Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Salem Attallah, suggested moving zionist settlers to an American state, as “no zionist invader will ever have our security and safety on our land as long as there’s a people and the determines resistance committed to reclaiming all its legitimate rights.” He noted that the international system has become a tool of American-zionist hegemony and arrogance.</p><p>The Movement also noted that Trump’s reception of the criminal Netanyahu represents contempt for ICC decisions, and they rejected his statements that “expose the ugly face of the United States.” They stated, like other factions, that Trump’s plans are a serious threat to the region and world. Yet, they noted that a people who faced American weapons for 15 months will not kneel to American words: “his plans will fail due to the steadfast resistance of our people.”</p><p><strong>The Popular Resistance Committees</strong> saw the statements as embodying American values. They considered Trump’s reception of Netanyahu as a reward for his “fascist entity’s genocide against women, children, and the elderly…with American support.”</p> <p>They called for popular action rejecting Trump’s statements globally to confront their danger.</p><p>Abu Mujahid affirmed that the Palestinian people and their resistance will thwart the goals of the zionist enemy, remaining steadfast and again foiling displacement plans.</p><p>“The plan to displace and eradicate our people has fallen and failed under the feet of our displaced people who returned to their land from which they were displaced under the bombing, destruction and war of zionist-American genocide.”</p><p>He added that “Egypt and Jordan will not allow the existence of an alternative homeland for the Palestinians…” and that American administrations have not broken the will of the Palestinian people despite their unlimited resources.</p><p>Abu Mujahid noted: “If Arab countries refuse to normalize with the zionist entity and submit to the American decision biased towards the criminal zionist entity, and stop paying the billions of dollars with which America finances its aggression against our peoples, then the criminal Trump will not be able to implement his malicious criminal plans.”</p><p>“It is time for us, as a Palestinian people, to put aside all our differences and adhere to our unity on the basis of protecting the constants and legitimate Palestinian national rights.”</p> <p><b>An appeal issued by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Fro</b>nt<b> for the Liberation of Palestine, Jamil Mazhar</b></p><p>Unity of the national ranks to confront the American-Zionist plans for displacement and ethnic cleansing</p><p>In light of the dangerous developments that have been revealed again through the statements of US President Donald Trump, which were not limited to justifying the crimes of the occupation and supplying it with weapons, but extended to reveal American intentions to control the sector and impose arrangements aimed at forcibly displacing our people and redrawing the political and geographical landscape in a way that serves the occupation and its expansionist projects, we in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine call for a unified and serious national position to confront these liquidation projects that target our existence, identity and historical rights.</p><p>What our people are exposed to today from comprehensive Zionist aggression, escalation of aggression and Judaization plans in the West Bank, and premeditated Zionist intentions for the systematic forced displacement of our people, is part of an integrated plan aimed at reproducing a new Nakba with direct American support. Trump’s recent statements about the need for “complete control over <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/gaza/" target="_blank">#Gaza</a>” clearly reveal the true intentions of the US administration and its partners in the Zionist entity, who seek to empty the Strip of its population in order to achieve plans targeting the West Bank by imposing new facts on the ground. It is no longer acceptable for the state of waiting or fragmentation and division in the <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/palestinian/" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> arena to continue. What is required today is a comprehensive and unified confrontation of these dangers, by rejecting all internal differences and immediately engaging in a comprehensive national and popular confrontation.</p><p>In this context, we call for:</p><p>1. Demanding President Mahmoud Abbas to call for an immediate meeting of the secretaries-general of the <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/palestinian/" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> factions in order to develop a unified national plan to confront the dangers threatening the <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/palestinian/" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> cause and thwart the US-Zionist plans, so that this meeting results in the formation of a temporary national leadership that will manage the field and political confrontation, strengthen the steadfastness of our people, organize popular movements and resistance against the occupation, and thwart displacement and liquidation projects.</p><p>2. Forming a national consensus government to manage the situation in the West Bank and <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/gaza/" target="_blank">#Gaza</a>, lead reconstruction and relief operations, and break the siege, and coordinate political, diplomatic, and legal efforts to prosecute the occupation for its crimes.</p><p>3. Escalating the confrontation in the occupied West Bank by strengthening resistance work in all its forms against the occupation army and settler gangs, and imposing new equations that put an end to the ongoing Zionist terrorism against our people.</p><p>4. Building an Arab and international position supporting our people through intensive action to expose the American-Zionist plans, mobilizing the broadest political and popular solidarity with our struggle, imposing international isolation on the Zionist entity, and blocking any attempts to provide international or regional cover for displacement and liquidation projects, especially Trump’s plans.</p><p>We are facing an existential danger that requires mobilizing all the energies of our people and unifying efforts in confronting the American-Zionist aggression, including working to defeat all attempts to dismantle or liquidate our cause. The recent American statements are a clear announcement of Trump’s and the occupation’s intentions, and are a warning to all national forces that our battle today is a battle of existence, requiring unity of position and investing all energies in serving the goal of thwarting these plans.</p><p>Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – Jamil Mazhar<br>Thursday: 6-February-2025</p> Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Youth of Revenge and Liberation also released a statement: O free people of our nation, this is Palestine, the land of our ancestors. It has endured successive waves of colonialism and occupation, as the entire world has, throughout history, attempted to uproot us from our land through schemes of displacement, expulsion, and extermination—from the emergence of the zionist idea up to the era of Trump. Yet, the will, resilience, and steadfastness of our people and our resistance have thwarted and will continue to thwart all these attempts. Trump and his reckless statements will pass, just as his so-called “Deal of the Century” did before him, and just as those who preceded him have vanished. Meanwhile, we shall remain firmly rooted in our land like the olive trees, with our people and our resistance, until the complete liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.We, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Youth of Revenge and Liberation in Palestine,<b> </b>state the following:<p></p><p><b>First:</b> We reject Trump’s statements and schemes and affirm that his continued rhetoric will ignite fire across the region and the entire world.</p><p><b>Second:</b> Our people, our resistance, and the free people of the world will not stand idly by in the face of any attempts to uproot our people from their land. Let the Al-Aqsa Flood serve as an example.</p><p><b>Third:</b> We call for the dissolution of the Security Coordination Authority and for unity behind the path of resistance to defend the Palestinian people and their destiny.</p><p>O free people of the world, we have seen your honor and courage in rejecting the war of extermination against our people in proud Gaza. We now call upon you to take a firm and swift stand against these statements, to take to the streets and public squares in rejection of the displacement of Palestinians from their land and homeland.</p><p>It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.</p><p>Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Youth of Revenge and Liberation – Palestine</p><p>February 5, 2025</p> <p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=16724" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">16724</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/al-aqsa-flood/" target="_blank">#alAqsaFlood</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/gaza/" target="_blank">#gaza</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/palestine/" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/palestinian/" target="_blank">#palestinian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/us-imperialism/" target="_blank">#usImperialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/west-asia/" target="_blank">#westAsia</a></p>