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They make a desert and call it peace,
said Tacitus, paraphrasing Calgacus This is not self-defence. This is the systematic destruction of Gaza.”
Palestinians aren’t going anywhere. This president can only spew this fanatical bullshit because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing. It’s time for my two-state solution colleagues to speak up.”
Responding to Trump’s comments, Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American member of Congress, said The State of Israel has no choice but to turn Gaza into a place that is temporarily or permanently impossible to live in.” ... Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”
In October 2023, for example, Major General Giora Eiland, who is highly influential, wrote in an Israeli paper that ... In another article, Eiland wrote We will not allow the rights of our people... to be infringed on,
said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, No matter where a person moves or how much they try to live in beautiful cities, they will never find peace except in their own city and land,
said Ramz, a 50-year-old father of four living in Gaza The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,
Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday These calls represent a serious violation of international law,
President Abbas continued Trump must think we’re living in a hotel he can shut down,
But we will not.”
Straightening his back despite his age, Abu al-Saeed says We already know what it means to lose everything,
he says, gesturing at the ruins Trump talks as if he’s a king handing out land,
That’s the best fantasy ever dreamt up by a world leader,
he says, shifting between disbelief and laughter Even under genocide, we didn’t leave,
Abu al-Saeed says, his voice steady You know what will never happen again? Us leaving.”
Citing the unbreakable bond Palestinians feel with their land, he adds Israel was built on the lie of ‘a land without a people,’
We remain here, even if it means living in the rubble of our homes — better that than living in humiliation elsewhere,
said Ibrahim Abu Rizk, who returned to Rafah to find his home in ruins Instead of being sent abroad, I should return to my original land where I was born and will die,
he said, referring to Yabneh, located near what is now the central Israeli city of Yavneh We categorically reject and will resist any plans to deport and transfer us from our land,
he said from the Jabaliya refugee camp If he wants to displace the population of Gaza, ... then he should return them to their original homeland from which they were displaced in 1948, inside Israel, in the depopulated villages.”
Mohammed al-Amiri, a resident in the West Bank city of Ramallah, said of Trump,
