Opinion: Trump's ethnic cleansing plan: No option left for the Palestinians but to stay and fight

President Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza not only alters long-held US policy in the Middle East; it also marks the end of the rules-based order that emerged after the Second World War. 

Trump’s remarks on Gaza leave no room for doubt: we are witnessing the assassination of the United Nations and all international institutions that were designed to restrict, if not prevent, the types of war crimes committed during two world wars. 

Such violence never stopped. But at least war crimes and crimes against humanity were recognised for what they were. 

Genocide and ethnic cleansing - just what Trump proposes to do in Gaza, and perhaps later to the rest of the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank and in Israel proper - are among the worst of these crimes. 

Read more: Trump's ethnic cleansing plan: No option left for the Palestinians but to stay and fight Opinion by Azzam Tamimi