Trump’s ‘Gaza takeover’: A genocide by decree

Donald Trump’s latest crusade in Gaza isn’t diplomacy it’s a brazen land grab dressed in humanitarian jargon. Less than a month after vowing to avoid foreign entanglements, Trump unveiled a plan to “take over” Gaza, eject Palestinians, and transform their homeland into a playground for predatory real estate ventures. This isn’t reconstruction; it’s erasure. And it’s not just reckless it’s a war crime. Trump’s obsession with bulldozing Palestinian rights isn’t new.

From moving the US embassy to Jerusalem a slap to international law to endorsing Israel’s theft of Syria’s Golan Heights, he’s spent years rubber-stamping extremist Israeli agendas. Now, he’s escalating. By championing the forced expulsion of Gazans, Trump isn’t merely siding with Israel’s far-right; he’s becoming its global megaphone. The same extremists who dream of annexing the West Bank now have an American cheerleader eager to greenlight their supremacist fantasies. Let’s be clear: Trump’s plan isn’t about peace. It’s about profit and power. By stripping Palestinians of their right to self-determination, he’s not solving a conflict he’s fueling a century-old fire.

This isn’t statecraft; it’s historical vandalism. Denying a people’s existence on their own land isn’t “negotiation.” It’s ethnic cleansing with a spreadsheet. The fallout would be catastrophic. Saudi Arabia key to regional stability has tied normalisation with Israel to Palestinian statehood. Trump’s Gaza scheme torches that bridge. Egypt and Jordan already refuse to house displaced Palestinians, recognising complicity in ethnic cleansing when they see it. But Trump doesn’t care. He’s high on the delusion that brute force and his cult of personality can bend reality. Sound familiar? This is the same arrogance that launched America into the post-9/11 quagmire. Iraq and Afghanistan taught the US that bombs don’t build democracies; they breed chaos. Yet here’s Trump, a man who once railed against “endless wars,” now peddling a neocolonial reboot. Boots on the ground? Try bulldozers on rubble. Instead of learning from history, he’s weaponizing it and dragging the US back into the morass. The irony is grotesque.

Trump claims he’ll restore American “greatness,” but his Gaza ploy would achieve the opposite: inflaming global outrage, alienating allies, and emboldening rivals. It’s not leadership it’s a demolition derby. And Palestinians aren’t the only casualties. By normalising displacement, Trump shreds America’s moral credibility, turning us into a caricature of imperialism.

Here’s the truth: Peace isn’t built on mass evictions. It’s forged through compromise, rights, and recognition. Crushing the weak isn’t strength it’s cowardice. Trump’s Gaza blueprint isn’t just a disaster for Palestinians; it’s a suicide pact for US interests. The world can’t afford another American-sponsored catastrophe. The people of the United States must slam the brakes on this madness. Trump’s Gaza isn’t a policy it’s a crime scene. And we’re all witnesses.