Opinion: Trump's Gaza plan: The century-old Zionist illusion of 'voluntary' emigration of Palestinians

On Sunday, US President Donald Trump proposed that one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza be relocated to Jordan or Egypt as part of a plan to "just clean out" the enclave. His special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, even suggested relocating a portion of the Gaza population to Indonesia.

Israel’s former far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir supported Trump’s suggestion in a post on X.

"One of our demands from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to promote voluntary emigration. When the president of the world’s greatest superpower, Trump, personally brings up this idea, it is worth the Israeli government implementing it - promoting emigration now," he wrote. 

This ethnic cleansing would pave the way for Jewish colonisation projects and the transformation of Gaza into the futuristic technological hub that Netanyahu dreams of.

With this plan, Trump is in keeping with the long-term movement of Zionism and, more precisely, the war objectives set by the Israeli far right.

READ MORE: Trump's Gaza plan: The century-old Zionist illusion of 'voluntary' emigration of Palestinians, opinion by Thierry Brésillon