Kenneth Roth discusses Donald Trump's controversial proposal to permanently relocate the 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza, arguing it has legitimized an option that was previously taboo in discussions on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Roth asserts that the plan amounts to a war crime and crime against humanity while evoking outrage globally. He notes Israel's historical precedent of forced Palestinian deportations, underlining the implications of Trump's remarks and the rejection of such plans by neighboring countries like Egypt and Jordan, which are not interested in receiving potential refugees.
Since its founding in 1948, Israel has treated the forced deportation of Palestinians as permanent—which is why they refer to their expulsion from the land that became the Jewish state as the Nakba, or catastrophe.
The lasting significance of Donald Trump's stunning plan to take over the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle the roughly 2 million Palestinians who live there may be that it legitimized one option that, as a possible solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, had been widely considered beyond the pale.
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