UNAC Statement on Trumps Plan for Gaza

2/10/25

The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemns Trump’s planned new Nakba in Gaza. He plans to remove Palestinians from their home in Gaza and force them to some third country, and to have the US “own” Gaza and turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” with lots of real estate development and profit for him and his cronies. This plan can be called by many names such as “ethnic cleansing,” “forced displacement,” and “genocide.” It is all a war crime as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Geneva Accords. In his recent statement, Trump bragged that if all Israeli hostages are not returned immediately, “all hell will break out” in Gaza, as if US and Israeli policies have not already caused “hell” for the people of Gaza.

Palestinians return to the north after ceasefire

Trump also claimed that when the Palestinians are expelled from Gaza, they will not be allowed to return. His claim that the Palestinians would not want to return to their destroyed homes and infrastructure in Gaza is belied by the joy they displayed as they embarked on the harsh journey back to their ruined homes and cities during this ceasefire. Their determination to stay in Gaza is an act of resistance against the criminal Zionist entity called Israel and its US backers. UNAC applauds them for this resistance. And we also applaud the heroic resistance of the Palestinian fighters as they resisted the Israeli military with its US arms, tanks, planes and bombs against their few small arms and improvised weapons.

Despite the Israeli terror and genocide, the determined resistance of the Palestinian people caused Israel to fail in Gaza. They were unable to destroy Hamas and eliminate the Palestinian people. World opinion came down of the side of the Palestinian people and Israel and the US were isolated as the entire world voted in the United Nations for a ceasefire while Israel and the US stood alone and opposed it. With each bomb that dropped on Gaza the resistance was strengthened.

So, when Israel could not eliminate the Palestinians in Gaza and was forced into a ceasefire it did not want, Trump stepped in to try and accomplish the task for them. Trump’s plan for the US to “own” Gaza is little more than naked imperialism. The US has no right to Gaza. If Russia had asserted that it would take over and “own” Gaza the US and the rest of the world be up in arms. Trump will fail too. The Palestinians will not leave their homeland. The Arab states and the entire world are opposed to the US plan and we in the US, in the heart of this genocidal regime have a special role to play. We must remain in the streets and struggle till we end this imperialist, genocidal regime and help bring peace and sovereignty to the Palestinian people.

From the River to the Sea all of Palestine Will be Free!