Trump wants to wipe out Gaza’s history. Saving its mosques and churches would defy him | Raja Shehadeh

IT may have already been too late to save homes where many Gaza population lives and have memories of the lives he spent there. Or the memories of people in Ramallah who spent the honeymoon in Gaza by the Mediterranean Sea. Like many others, I also have strong and beautiful experiences of time you spend in Gaza. However, at this time of the unimaginable destruction of homes and life, I turn my mind to Destruction of cultural heritage Like the Great Omari Mosque, which was also opened in the seventh century known as the Great Mosque in Gaza, which was partially destroyed and parts of its structure were severely damaged. Or the historic Greek Church of St. Porvirius, one of the oldest churches in the world, which survived the destruction by a minimal difference for the second time after it was shocked by an unnoticed Israeli missile. The fact that looking at their innovation indicates only the ease of accepting that the Palestinians in Gaza are not a people who deserve to preserve their heritage, but a group of Pozen can be avoided without punishment.

Donald Trump’s advertisement It is a continuation of Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy of destroying the Gaza Strip, which has been followed up during the past 16 months. During Joe Biden as President, the United States supported Israel with weapons and ammunition; Now Trump supports her by suggesting the ethnic cleansing of his people. Without a country of their own, the Palestinians are considered to be disposed of and without nationality, and people who do not have a country and do not belong to any land, and they have no memories or attachments. If there is a need for evidence that the Palestinians are linked to their land, the scene of tens of thousands of them return to their destroyed homes in the north by simply allowing them without hesitation for a moment, although they know that they were returning to destruction and ruin, it should be enough. They were familiar with the goal of Israel to remove it by force from the north and transfer them, and by their immediate return, they collectively express their refusal to allow this to happen.

That all crimes committed in Gaza It must be eliminated, forgotten, left without punishment, as Trump imagines through the real estate deal in Gaza, is very horrific and painful. I am still reeling under the idea of ​​my human rights losses and my colleagues in Gaza who lost their offices, files and homes. Years of hard work and documentation that dies under the rubble. It is also concerned that ethnic cleansing be suggested by one of the world’s most powerful leader.

For Netanyahu, such a result means that all the crimes that led his policies have led to the elimination of destruction, forgiveness and women. This is what he wants and this is what he should get. The imagination that Palestinian refugees will be absorbed by the two countries around them not new. It was David Ben Gurion in 1948 who expected that in a generation or two refugees he would forget. They never did. Now many Palestinians are from the areas that have become Israel Those who resorted to Gaza are threatened with expulsion.

The Trump proposal application appears unlikely. However, as long as Israel is controlling the borders of the Gaza Strip, and if the United States does not support it The third stage of the ceasefire Upon starting reconstruction, Israel can actually stop any financing directed to reconstruction, as well as prevent the import of materials to rebuild the tape from entering. This would leave the Palestinians who live under unbearable circumstances. The failure to rebuild what was destroyed by the Israeli bombing in the 2014 war that led to future wars against the tape.

The current war has not ended, but no negotiations have yet been mentioned to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. I had some hope that after seeing gravity and Destruction In its Palestinian neighbors, Israel has caused the suffering that the Israeli hostages carry over a long period of their imprisonment in Gaza, and people in Israel will be brought to their senses and there will be an entry on both sides against the continuation of the war and the military conflict. However, this looks far away.

An international effort to rebuild the great Omari mosque and the St. Porvirius Church indicates that the world rejects Trump’s attempt to turn the fate of the Palestinians in Gaza into a real estate project. The most humanitarian approach to converting Gaza to Riviera will rebuild the patient to these archaeological monuments of the World Heritage, as a start to rebuild the devastating tape. This will be the partial symbolic atonement for what was done for the people of Gaza and the world.

• Raja Shihada is a Palestinian lawyer and writer, and the founder of the Human Rights Organization. He is the author of the book “What does Israel fear from Palestine?

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