Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US President Donald Trump to the White House, the two leaders who repeat their controversial proposal to force thousands of Palestinians forcibly outside the Gaza Strip.
Trump and Netanyahu met for dinner in the White House blue room on Monday while indirect discussions in Qatar between Israel and Hamas on the proposals supported by the United States for a 60-day ceasefire to stop the 22-month Gaza war seemed to take a certain momentum.
Netanyahu told journalists present in Reunion that the United States and Israel worked with other countries to give the Palestinians a “better future”, suggesting that residents of Gaza could move to neighboring countries.
“If people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave. It shouldn’t be a prison. It should be an open place and give people a free choice,” said Netanyahu.
“We are working with the United States very closely to find countries that will seek to achieve what they are always saying, that they wanted to give the Palestinians a better future. I think we procuré to several countries. ”
Trump, which earlier this year caused indignation when he launched his idea of moving the Palestinians and taking control of the gang to transform it into a “riviera of the Middle East”, said that there was a “great cooperation” on the issue of “surrounding countries”.
“So something good will happen,” he added.
“Recipe for disaster”
“This is something that the Israelis have been saying for some time, calling it for the” voluntary migration “of the Palestinians of their homeland. But of course, it was condemned as ethnic cleaning,” said Hamdah Salhut of Tel Aviv Tribune, postponing Amman, Jordan.
The eminent legal expert, Ralph Wilde, said that there are “clear rules” of international law which prohibit the forced transfer of Palestinians within Gaza or occupied West Bank, “not only transfer outside this territory but also forced transfer”.
“We must start with the illegality of the presence of Israel in itself. Israel does not even have the right to be in Gaza or in the West Bank, and therefore everything that Israel does there, because his presence is illegal, is also illegal, including the way in which he treats the Palestinians at the moment and in the implementation of these plans to be forced inside or outside Gaza, “he told Al Jaze.
“In addition, because it is part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against the Palestinian people, it is also a crime against humanity, again in terms of state responsibility and individual criminal responsibility,” he added.
“Finally, it is also the genocide; This is part of the existing continuous process of intention to inflict on the living conditions of the Palestinian people calculated to destroy them in whole or in part. So essentially a war crime, a crime against humanity and the crime of genocide at the same time at an individual criminal level and at the level of the state. ”
Former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas told Tel Aviv Tribune, all plan to move Palestinians is a “disaster recipe”.
“The fact that the Israeli Defense Minister suggests certain ideas, or even the Prime Minister, or even the President of the United States, does not mean that there is a plan,” he said.
“At the beginning of February, Trump spoke of a Palestinian Riviera, and in 36 hours, he changed this of a Riviera for the Palestinians to the Palestinians will be expelled,” he added.
Trump and Netanyahu met while Israeli and Hamas negotiators held a second day of indirect talks in Qatar, sitting in different rooms in the same building. The proposals for a 60 -day break in the fighting envisage a progressive release of the captives held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners, withdrawals of Israeli troops from certain parts of Gaza and discussions on the end of the war.
But a bonding point is whether the ceasefire will end the war. Hamas said he was willing to release all the captives in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Netanyahu says that war will end once Hamas will go, disarm and enter into exile – something that the Palestinian group refuses to do.
Before Netanyahu’s visit to the United States, Trump predicted that a cease-fire agreement could be concluded this week. But Netanyahu appeared Cagey, excluding a complete Palestinian state, saying that Israel will “always” keep security control over the Gaza Strip.
Monday talks in Qatar ended without ads. Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, who played an important role in developing proposals, should join the negotiators in Qatar this week.
On Tuesday, the spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, Majed Al-Ansari, said that the negotiations would “need time”. “I don’t think I can give any chronology at the moment,” he said.
Nobel coveted appointment
Trump and Netanyahu’s discussions occurred a little more than two weeks after the first ordered the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites in support of Israeli air strikes, before announcing a ceasefire in the War of Israel-Iran of 12 days.
During their meeting, Netanyahu gave Trump a letter which, according to him, had been used to appoint the President for the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump, seeming to be satisfied with the gesture, thanked her.
“Much of this concerns optics,” said Phil Lavelle d’Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Washington, DC. “Of course, the Prime Minister (Israeli) will be very eager to ensure that this is considered a major success … He is very eager to ensure that he is described as returning in the good favors of Donald Trump.”
Trump has little secret that he covets a Nobel, deceive the recent trues that his administration has facilitated between India and Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.
