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So just when we thought Israel’s genocide was the final straw in Palestine’s tragic story, Donald Trump again exposes his own, and Netanyahu’s, degeneracy. Just take a moment to consider the fever dream of these two pathetic, old, unrepentant war criminals, and weep.

They want to follow through with their obscene plan to turn Gaza into a beachside resort. They want Palestinians to ‘voluntarily’ and ‘temporarily’ re-locate, when of course their choices range from being shot to being starved if they don’t agree.

There is no place to go. How many more would die on the trip to where? Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria? Mass deportation, and should they own land now, they would be permitted to return to a piece of land of 30 square metres, which is the size of a small bedroom.

One small comfort is that it will probably never be done, because it is simply too difficult, and too unpalatable for the rest of the world to tolerate. The plan has been described as insane, and a smokescreen for ethnic cleansing, which is of course another crime against humanity. Like the Nakba, but even bigger. Two million people made homeless, to add to their misery.

They have a marketing name for the new territory: “GREAT”; the initials of Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust. Very grandiose, just like the two old sociopaths.

Talking about sociopaths, “the proposal was reportedly developed by some of the same Israelis who created and set in motion the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with financial planning contributed by Boston Consulting Group.” The Guardian

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the outfit which has recently been handling food distribution in Gaza. Their work has led to the deaths of hundreds of men women and children, whose only crime was to queue for food, at a food distribution centre.

It is hard not to blame the Americans en masse, for their stupidity and their negligence, in voting for a man without morals, or intelligence, or even common decency. He has the power to stop this immediately, and yet he blithely continues to arm the Israelis, who continue to kill women and children, without a backward glance. The Americans are paying for this humanitarian catastrophe with their taxes.

Israel will be shunned for centuries

Even without looking at the individuals’ personal suffering, the damage to families and communities, to neighbourhoods, to schoolyards, to friendship groups, is beyond comprehension.

There is no coming back from this. The damage already inflicted on the entire culture of a people will not wash away. Israel will never be trusted again, while there is a single person on earth who remembers this carnage, this wanton punishment.

Israel will never be respected again either, not if it produces hundreds of humanitarian heroes, not if it wakes up and becomes a ‘penitent nation’. It has inflicted too much needless pain, and worst of all, it has seemingly enjoyed inflicting it. Even we in Australia, so far away, can see the cruelty and the self-justification. It drips with hypocrisy.

This goes beyond punishment, it goes beyond retribution. It is not revenge, it is naked savagery. It is racist, and cowardly. As if the Palestinians are an army. And to suggest that one of the best educated nations on earth (Israel) is prepared to look the other way, shows you how far they have travelled down the road to barbarism.

And to add insult to injury, now they want to make money from ‘the venture’. What an abomination. This so-called ‘war’, being waged against civilians, and now the obscene pictures they post of a post-apocalyptic fantasy beach resort.

It is extraordinary that Trump, who is desperate to escape the odium of being a pedophile, associated with Jeffrey Epstein, is seemingly content with being associated with, and equally guilty of, the mass murder of children, committed by Netanyahu.

There must come a time when these awful men meet their deserved fate, and are held accountable for their monstrous crimes.