Is it the right thing to do and can it work? Yes it can.
After President Trump proposed resettling the Arab Muslim settlers currently living in Gaza, there was an outbreak of furious objections from politicians, activists and media outlets.
The objections could be roughly divided into the moral and the practical. The ‘moral’ objection was that it was ‘wrong’ to resettle the population currently occupying Gaza, and the ‘practical’ objection was that it would be impossible to accomplish. Both objections do not hold up.
The Jewish population of Gaza was resettled twice, once after the Egyptian invasion and the conquest of Gaza during the War of Independence, and the second time after the 2005 ‘disengagement’ forcibly eliminated 21 Jewish communities and expelled families living there.
Not only did politicians and the media not object to the forcible removal of the Jewish communities of Gaza, but they celebrated it as a step forward for peace in the region.
Many, if not most ‘peace plans’, propose the further resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Judea and Samaria to make way for a ‘Palestinian’ state. Even as they object to resettling Gazan Muslims in Arab countries, they refer to Jews living in the ‘West Bank’ as settlers, to their communities as ‘settlements’ and propose that they be resettled elsewhere.
UN Resolution 242 has been interpreted by many politicians and the media to mean that Israel must withdraw from territory, including parts of Jerusalem, where 450,000 Jews live. The same people who insist that it’s morally wrong and impractical to resettle 2 million Muslims out of Gaza also argue that it’s morally right and practical to resettle nearly half a million Jews in Israel.
Opponents of Trump’s proposal don’t believe it’s wrong to resettle a population, they would just rather expel and resettle Jews than expel and resettle the Arab Muslim colonial population.
They don’t oppose resettlement, they support terrorism.
With the moral question out of the way, what about the practical one: is it even possible?
Some say that the Gaza Arab Muslim population could not be moved without ‘door-to-door fighting’. But Israel’s recent experience in the war after Oct 7 shows that’s clearly not true.
Despite the false claims of genocide, the Israelis kept civilian casualties to a minimum by evacuating as much as the ‘civilian’ population as possible from one part of Gaza to another.
Despite being told it was impossible, Israelis evacuated hundreds of thousands of Gazans to make way for military operations. During the beginning of the war, around 1 million Gazans left the north for the south and the UN would later claim that as many as 1.5 million Muslim settlers in Gaza had been displaced. Most of those in Gaza followed orders and got out of the way.
Looking to examples beyond Israel, the Black September war between Jordan and the PLO resulted in the deaths of some 4,000 terrorists, as many as 25,000 civilians, according to Yasser Arafat, and some 20,000 ‘Palestinians’ were resettled in ‘refugee camps’ in Lebanon
After the Gulf War, Kuwait punished the ‘Palestinians’ who had collaborated with Saddam Hussein, by expelling some 280,000 of them in a mass purge that was later joined by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf allies for a total estimated by ‘Palestinian’ advocates at 400,000.
Kuwait shelled ‘Palestinian’ neighborhoods and sent in death squads to massacre them. Tanks and troops were deployed, checkpoints were set up and most of the ‘Palestinians’ were driven from their country and their neighborhoods were eliminated. Parts of Hawally, where the ‘Palestinians’ used to live, were bulldozed and turned into an amusement park.
This was done with the support of the first Bush administration.
“I think we’re expecting a little much if we’re asking the people in Kuwait to take kindly to those that had spied on their countrymen that were left there, that had brutalized families there, and things of that nature,” President George H.W. Bush told reporters at a press conference.
Saudi Arabia deported over 50,000 ‘Palestinians’, Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar, which has since become a state sponsor of Hamas, also began firing, expelling and deporting ‘Palestinians’
None of these events occasioned much protest or commentary, they occurred with the support of western governments who, like President Bush, compared it to the reactions of the French against collaborators after the Nazi occupation, and life soon went on as it had before.
The resettlement of large numbers of ‘Palestinians’ has happened before in the Middle East. While the resettlement of Gaza would take place on a larger scale, it would not be that much larger than the resettlements during the war or in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
Such a resettlement is both practical and morally defensible since there are no other options.
The underlying problem in the conflict is that Israel resettled some 800,000 Jewish refugees from the Muslim world, while the Arab Muslim nations who attacked it failed to do likewise. Along with the UN, they insisted on maintaining them under the fake identity of ‘Palestinians’ as a perpetual army of occupation: forming into terrorist groups for an endless war with Israel.
“You have to learn from history. You can’t keep doing the same mistake over and over again,” President Trump pointed out.
Every possible effort has been made to create a ‘Palestinian’ state for over 30 years. After multiple peace proposals, land concessions, endless rounds of negotiations and taxpayer funding (over $2 billion through USAID to the ‘Palestinians’ since Oct 7 alone) nothing worked.
When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, leaving behind greenhouses and plans for new industries, along with sizable international funding, Hamas turned it into a war zone.
Two-state solutionists continue to argue that if Israel were to offer even more land, expel and resettle more Jews, the Muslim terrorists would finally agree to a permanent peace.
But there has never been a single shred of evidence that would work. None of the Israeli proposals or concessions undertaken since the late 1980s have led to any kind of peace. The PLO and Hamas used terrorism at every turn to press for more Israeli concessions while giving nothing in return. Their leaders have said again and again that they intend to destroy Israel.
After Oct 7, everyone is finally taking them at their word.
Diplomats insisted that peace could not come without the expulsion and resettlement of Jews from Judea and Samaria. President Trump flipped the table by suggesting that it can’t come without the resettlement of Arab Muslims from Gaza. Which makes more sense?
Debate is still going on about President Trump’s proposal for an American role in Gaza. Many Americans and Israelis see the move as unnecessary. They would prefer to have Israel take care of business alone with the political support of the United States. Just as Bush provided political support for the Kuwaitis to expel the ‘Palestinian’ population from their country.
President Trump is a visionary and his idea reframed the entire view of the conflict, and while it may only be an opening for a negotiating position, like his talk of annexing Canada or Greenland, there is no doubt that it has shaken up all the conventional wisdom in the Middle East. His basic premise, that Gaza is a lovely place that will be a source of conflict as long as it is populated by Islamic terrorists and their supporters, is fundamentally sound.
The objections to it, both moral and practical, are groundless. Resettlement is feasible and moral. If the Kuwaitis and the Jordanians could resettle the ‘Palestinians’ out of their countries on far less grounds than the atrocities of Oct 7, the Israelis certainly have the right to do it.
The politicians, diplomats and reporters who advocated for the mass resettlement of nearly half a million Jews have no moral grounds for opposing the resettlement of Gaza Muslims.
And after trying everything else, including decades of failed efforts to make peace with the terrorists or trying to coexist with them in the absence of peace, it’s time to do what makes the most sense for everyone, and the only thing that has any hope of bringing peace to the region.
Patrick says
All Muslims must be removed from GAZA, there are no exceptions. You cannot appease Islam, the most evil, totalitarian, hate filled civilization in history of the world! Muhammad and Allah glorify killing of non-Muslims, therefore, Islam is war, continual war against the worlds non-Muslim.
Rob Porter says
Patrick, very evidently Islam is not a ‘civilization’. Meanwhile, seeing that Hamas and others outside insist, leave the Gazans in the demolition site mess. Without sanitation and water, and excrement everywhere, disease will quickly spread, possibly also plague.
Cynthia says
This is very detailed, cogent argument. I wish President Trump or Netanyahu would have made all these points. Most of the public does no know any of this history of repeated attempts for peace by the Israelis, and the subsequent attacks by the Palestinians in response.
Americans only know the propaganda taught on US campuses and even our lower schools by “activist” teachers.
Luckily, the pro Palestinian riots on our streets turned off most Americans by their support of terrorists and disdain for America.
Stive says
Gazans being ethnic Egyptians says go home to Egypt period. If Egypt says no, blow open the border and let them go into Egypt. Egypt military going to slaughter them coming in? Sanity says no. Egypt going to attack Israel ? Israel can knock out Egypt in a day where it counts.
Robert says
I agree. I think I was just reading that Egypt gets over 6 Billion dollars in aid each year. I sure as hell don’t want them in the west.
Shmuel says
Feiglin says that 2 Million Gazans there now is another Palestinian lie. The real number is between 7 to 8 hundred thousand
Gerald A HonigmN says
Daniel Greenfield is an excellent source… and so am I. I’ve also done extensive doctoral work in Middle Eastern and National Security Policy Studies, and my forever timely book and other published works are in use in numerous universities and other institutions of higher all around the world: Paris’s acclaimed institut d’etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Georgetown, Cornell, American University of Beirut, Kobe University, UF, UC-Irvine, Tel Aviv University, etc.
Daniel’s comments about UNSC Resolution 242 may be interpreted by Israel’s enemies ( in including the American State Department) the way he suggests, but that does not make it true.
Please read this analysis by myself on this
Source: Israel National News
https://search.app/jDoP8f6byfMLpU4RA
“Resolution To Kill The Resolution “
The main library system of the UAE is the latest to incorporate my book and other publications intt the Federation’s educational network:
http://q4j-miiddle-east.com
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good job, Hugh, in recounting the Palestinian history w/ other Arab countries, such as Jordan & Kuwait. It explains why those countries don’t want the Palis even if they have reconciled themselves w/ the reality that Israel is here to stay
They don’t have to be located in the best of places outside Gaza. They can be transplanted to Somalia and Western Sahara, as discussed some days back in the Jerusalem Post. Also, they don’t have to be kept intact: they can be split by clans, and sent to different countries
gravenimage says
Smal point, Infidel–Hugh Fitzgerald has indeed often written on this issue, but the above article was actually written by Daniel Greenfield.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sorry, missed it. Hugh generally posts at 2:00pm and 4:00pm Eastern, so I thought that this was one of his. Especially since he focuses mostly on Israel-centric and Jewish-centric events, whereas Daniel usually focuses more on what’s going on here
Thanks for the correction
Goudsmit Linda says
Another excellent analysis by Daniel Greenfield. For me, what is missing from this article is the fact that Iran’s proxy, Hamas, declared war on Israel October 7, 2024 when it invaded Israel and slaughtered 1200 Israelis. In what universe is Israel not entitled to the spoils of that war? Israel never should have surrendered Gaza in its ill-advised 2005 land-for-peace deal, and now Gaza belongs to Israel once again. NEVER AGAIN is a reference to the reality of the Holocaust, but it should apply equally to any land-for-peace deal. Why? Because Israel’s Muslim enemies, including the Arab Muslim settlers in Gaza, are doctrinally committed to Israel’s extinction and to the annihilation of the Jewish people. So, this American Jew agrees with President Trump on resettling Gazan Muslims in Arab countries, because AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN is the inconvenient truth and reality of the Middle East!
Billy says
Resettle ALL the Muslims from Israel and Gaza to Jordan and ban Islam, its Schools, its Mosques, etc. in Israel because of Islam’s terrorism, discrimination, and violence against Israelis and ALL Non-Muslims.
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) to fight against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION UNDER WESTERN LAWS because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist, Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of Intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous Muslim war, a religious duty, against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
The FRUIT of Islam is incessant WAR, terrorism, discrimination, slavery, malice, ISLAMIZATION, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, its Courts, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims(Quran 3:54; 5:51 and more). Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 5:51; 9:29; 98:6-7 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
Western Muslims seek to expand Islam’s legality into the West’s Legal Systems and to advance Islam’s totalitarian, discriminatory goals to conquer the West. Consequently, Islam promotes a limitless, terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Bexarkat says
It would be simpler to just remove the Hashemite occupiers of the eastern portion of what was previously known as “the Palestine Madate,” and transfer Arabs from Gaza and Judea and Samaria, as well as any Arab-Israeli who wishes to return to their homeland.
The Hashemites could be relocated in their ancestral homeland, the deserts of the Arabian peninsula.
It is logical and makes sense.
James Lincoln says
Israel has to get this right – or they’ll be a repeat of October 7th.
There can be NO muslims in ANY part of Israel, including Gaza, Judea and Samaria.
And no more muslim work permits – none.
Madeline Brooks says
With all due respect, to Daniel Greenfield, with whom I usually agree, I have to say that the use of the word “moral” is used mistakenly. I posted this comment when the article first appeared on 2/10 elsewhere. Morality equals justice, or it should. How is it just to reward serial killers with a stay of execution and an all expense paid trip to another country where they will receive benefits and go on the dole again? They deserve death, not another lifetime of parasitic rage, preparing to kill again. All of them , you might ask? Yes, unless they convincingly surrender and repent. As to the “innocence” of the civilians, check out all the reports of civilians acting as Hamas murderers and torturers of hostages.
terry says
Resettle the Arabs and let Israel annex the areas once used as crime dens.