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Trump's son-in-law, who will invest in Sazan, has sparked many reactions with his stance on Gaza. Having clearly shown that his ambition is to build on the coastline, as he intends to do in Albania. "Middle East Monitor" has done an article exposing his plan...
" It's unfortunate that no one is accepting refugees ," complained former White House adviser during the Trump administration, Jared Kushner. He made his comment during an interview at Harvard University. Reason? Gaza is being looked at as a potential investment space on the coast, so why shouldn't Israel "take advantage"?
Asked to comment on the fact that Palestinians will not be allowed to return after being forcibly removed from Gaza, Kushner replied: " Maybe, but I'm not sure there's much left of Gaza at this point ." And to further discredit the enclave, Trump's son-in-law described it as a historical precedent: " It was the result of a war - you had tribes going to different places and then Gaza came out ." He is wrong, of course; Gaza has a very long history behind it. It is the Gaza Strip as a territorial entity that is a relatively recent construct. Gaza is the entire symbol and experience of Palestine.
It keeps Palestinian history and memory within a confined space, which is now subject to what is clearly genocide by all legal definitions, while the world debates and questions whether Israel, when all is said and done, is committing genocide. And if it is, what about October 7? This shameful normalization and acceptance of genocide is built on the normalization of decades of Israeli colonial violence, so, unfortunately, no one should be surprised. However, his shame must forever stain the international community.
Kushner's humanitarian claims are as hypocritical as those of the international community. The international community, a euphemism for Western countries, refuses to accept Palestinian refugees on the grounds that those countries do not want to be complicit in the forced displacement of Palestine's indigenous population. But these same countries don't seem to mind the Palestinians being subjected to an Israeli genocide, which is the ultimate form of ethnic cleansing.
How hard would it be for Israel and Kushner to see their way, as we see the international community lauding settlements and real estate development deals as " economics for peace "? Of course, in such a scenario there would be no Palestinians left to make peace, or the numbers would be so low that peace would drop out of the equation, leaving only economic benefits for Israel and its collaborators.
There isn't much left in terms of Gaza infrastructure, but Kushner is wrong when he says there isn't much left of Gaza. If a country's citizens are its core, then 2.3 million Palestinians are Gaza. His sweeping statement also eliminates the existence of Gaza – and thus its Palestinian population – which is still a territorial reality, albeit one now filled with a new bloody history of Israel's making.
" I'm sitting in Miami Beach right now ," Kushner added for context as he explained to the interviewer what he would do if he were in Israel. This was the epitome of how international politics play out in Palestine, and what the Palestinians have suffered as a result.
Someone sitting in Miami Beach, or anywhere else for that matter, has no right to decide the genocidal fate of the Palestinians. However, as much as Kushner should be called out for his complicity, so should the UN, the international entity that recognized a colonial enterprise built on an ongoing ethnic cleansing that has now become the world's most complicit act of genocide. .
Waterfront real estate in Gaza when Palestinian homes are completely destroyed? This is what happens when the UN only talks about alleged isolated violations and not about the ongoing Zionist colonial occupation of Palestine. / Adapted Pamphlet from Middle East Monitor
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