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Trump's Gaza Plan Could Be Just What the Middle East Needs

(Forward) Yardena Schwartz - Considering the last century of failed efforts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict - with every two-state solution rejected by Palestinian leaders, as far back as 1937 - President Trump's shock to the system might be precisely what that system needs. The foreign ministers of five Arab countries, including Egypt and Jordan, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio protesting the relocation plan. What those Arab officials and so many others fail to acknowledge is that every time a state has been offered to Palestinian leaders, they have vehemently rejected it. Also ignored is the fact that the very countries claiming that Palestinians must remain in Gaza are the same countries whose failed 1948 war against Israel led Palestinians to become refugees in Gaza. Since Oct. 7, and the revelation that most Palestinians supported the massacre, many Israelis who once believed in the two-state solution no longer can. Now, amidst a ceasefire in which Hamas leaders and supporters are declaring victory and praising the attacks of Oct. 7, Trump's plan could serve as a wake-up call: the violent rejection of peace over the last century has created enough misery and destruction. This deadly charade must end. The writer is the author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
2025-02-11 00:00:00
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