A Strategic and Moral Breakdown of Trump's Proposal to Remove Gazans

🔵 BETH Media – Analytical Summary

In a powerful and multidimensional article, Libyan writer Wafaa Al-Bouaisi offers more than a rebuttal to Donald Trump’s alleged proposal to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza—she presents an ethical, political, legal, and existential dissection of the idea itself.

📉 Trump’s Strategy: Ethnic Displacement as Policy

Al-Bouaisi frames Trump’s plan not merely as political maneuvering, but as:

“A material removal and symbolic erasure of a people and their history.”

Quoting international scholars like Brian Katulis and Daniel Drezner, she underscores that the idea is:

Legally untenable

Geopolitically volatile

Economically disastrous for Egypt and Jordan

And morally abhorrent

She warns that such plans echo the trauma of the 1948 Nakba, and may meet the legal definition of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention, as well as crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute.

✡️ Jewish Voices Say No

In a bold twist, the article highlights Jewish opposition to Trump's plan, with over 350 rabbis and prominent Jewish public figures signing a full-page ad in The New York Times declaring:

“No to ethnic cleansing. The Jewish people reject Trump’s proposal.”

They remind the world that forced population transfer is not only a violation of Jewish values—but a bitter part of Jewish history itself.

🇸🇦 Arab Consensus and Saudi Arabia’s Firm Stand

The response from Arab nations has been swift and unified:

Saudi Arabia, under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, categorically rejected any plan of forced relocation.

Egypt postponed a scheduled visit to the White House.

Jordan made it clear that accepting such a plan would threaten its own stability—even if it meant losing U.S. aid.

This solid Arab front reflects an unwillingness to trade political dignity for economic dependence.

🧠 Beyond Survival: The Right to Belong

In one of the article’s most profound sections, Al-Bouaisi redefines the concept of “the right to remain”:

“Remaining is not merely physical survival.
It is the right to exist within one’s original social and cultural fabric—to access water, food, education, worship, and livelihood.
It is also the right to preserve memory, tradition, and the emotional architecture of identity.”

This is not just a defense of land—but of existential continuity.

🧩 BETH Interpretation: A War Not Only on People… But on Memory

What some powers seek is not just the removal of Palestinians from Gaza…
But the removal of Gaza from the Palestinians.

To erase their stories.
To disconnect people from the rhythm of their land.
To convert legacy into a real estate transaction.

📷 Suggested Visual Symbol:

A cracked olive tree with roots wrapped around books, photographs, and children’s toys—being pulled apart by invisible hands.
But from the cracked trunk… a new branch grows, reaching back toward the land.

📌 Conclusion:

The battle over Gaza is not only about territory—
It is about who defines identity, and whether justice can survive political convenience.

The Palestinians’ right to remain is not negotiable.
It is human, historic, and nontransferable.