Palestinians fear their Donald Trump nightmare has begun

In the first term of Donald Trump, his administration rolled over the Palestinians, recognizing Jerusalem’s rival city as Israel’s capital for decades, saying that the United States and Israeli would not settle international law on the West.

Nevertheless, this record did not prepare the Palestinians for Trump’s proposal that the United States should take responsibility – if needed – and transferred 2 million people living in Palestinian Chitmahal abroad.

“Trump does not know people in Gaza. Trump does not know the people on the West Bank. The people here will die in their homeland rather than leaving their homeland. Abed, a 21 -year -old student of Ramalla, says there is only one homeland here. “I laughed [when I heard the plan]The Because it’s impossible, it doesn’t happen. “

In addition to the mood of rejection and mistrust, there was a feeling of concern like locals in Ramallah – a city that forms the administrative center of the West Bank – what does it mean to the Gambit of Trump and what it means for them and Palestinian causes.

At a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjasin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Trump portrayed his idea as a way to end the brutal war on Hamas on 7 October 2021, which is a bloody clash. Fight Decades old Israeli-Palestini in the history of conflict.

However, for the Palestinians, the foreign view of the foreign attitude refers to the danger that Trump will encourage a government to be the most right -wing government in Israel’s history, and will give a green light to the West Bank, and to re -establish Jewish settlement in Gaza.

“Trump’s experience in his previous president’s position was horrible and it seems that it is going to be even worse,” Ghasan Khatib, a lecturer at the University of Birjit, said. “He wasn’t talking from the cuff. He was reading a written statement. I think he needs to be taken seriously what he said. “

With the international condemnation of Trump’s plan, the administration officials wanted to regain the idea that America would deploy troops in Gaza. However, Israeli officials on Thursday welcomed Defense Minister Israel Katz to prepare a plan to “voluntarily” to leave the Gazan Chitmahal.

There are a few threats of the Palestinians to be displaced. In 1948, during the war with Israel’s founding, 700,5 Palestinians fled or Israeli forces expelled from their home. Almost no one was ever allowed to come back. Palestinians refer to the experience as a disaster or disaster, and the determination of avoiding repeat is deeply involved in the national mentality.

“Those who left in 1948 could not return. They do not have an easy life in exile. Many of them do not have a passport. Nabalas teacher Nardin Kawa says they do not have the rights like the countries they live. “We see them suffer. We have learned from the past, and we will not do it anymore. “

Wreck Israel According to Jerusalem’s 4 -year -old computer engineer Sami Karan, Gaza is in Gaza, most of which are now in ruins, the determination could not change. “This new generation is not like our fathers,” he said. “They have a different mentality. They are further connected to the land. “

However, at Trump’s press conference, the risk of being displaced from Gaza was not the only threat. Asked whether he would support Israel to “region” to the West Bank, Trump said that his administration had not yet taken any position, “people like the idea” and he will declare “probably” in the next four weeks. For approval than to take responsibility for Gaza – the attachment for Trump would be much easier – those who recognized Israeli sovereignty on its first term on Golan Heights.

To many on the west bank, especially in more rural areas, attachment seems to have already happened. Over the decades, Israeli populations – considered illegal under international law – have been relentlessly expanded, when their connected new roads have spread in this region, the Palestinian communities have been separated from each other.

October October is the locals say that the situation has become even worse, as the Israeli military has raided militants in cities like Zenin and Nablas, as the situation has grown and the Israeli military has killed several hundreds of people and pressed a web of checkpoints that once exploded in Unexpected Odysse The

As soon as Trump returns to the White House, many fear that the situation may become stronger. Even before his announcement, Trump strengthened Israel’s rights by the appointment of the senior administration of Trump Israeli and removing the sanctions imposed by the Joe Biden administration on the Palestinians who were attacked on the West Bank.

“I think there will be more checkpoints, more people will die unnecessarily, more people will leave, because it is not a safe place for children to grow up,” Ramallah’s 19 -year -old students Abdelrahman Wahdan said, whose courses were suspended because of the west bank Difficulty means not enough students cannot participate.

“The Israelites will feel stronger because they are behind the United States. None of the US presidents were good for us. The The They were always against the Arabs. “

Others said they hoped that international pressure could still soften Trump’s influence – at least as far as his plans were related to Gaza. Arab countries have rejected the US president’s call to accept the Gazans, arguing that countries like Jordan and Egypt will argue that Palestinians will hoping to establish their own state and protect their own countries.

However, Ibrahim Dalalas, director of the Horizon Center for Political Studies in Ramalla, said that if the rejection of Palestinians by Arab states failed to rehabilitate Trump in the end, his proposal could still be far -reaching consequences, but if it could not help transaction. Can’t help, but it cannot help transaction, but it cannot help transaction, but it cannot help transact a three -week old ceasefire in Gaza.

On Tuesday, Netanyahu, who was under pressure to resume his far -right allies, promised to return to the war to confirm Hamas by standing by Trump.

“I don’t think it is implemented. But whether it is implemented or not, the conflict will lead to a very deep deeper, “said Dalalasa. “It does not make the situation more complicated here, it also has an impact on its regional stability. It is planting seeds for more bitter conflict. “

Cartography by Aditi Bhandari