Trump May Become the Winston Churchill of our Time
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
ZOA strongly praises President Trump’s rational plan for Gazans to emigrate to Egypt and Jordan. President Trump’s plan is brilliant and courageous. He is moving toward becoming the Winston Churchill of our time.
This important development may well assure a far more secure and “strength through peace” peaceful Mideast.
President Trump told reporters that he spoke with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and would speak with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, and explained: “I’d like Egypt to take people, and I’d like Jordan to take people. You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, we just clean out that whole thing. You know over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts. And I don’t know, something has to happen. It’s literally a demolition site, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there so l’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
Pres. Trump also said he complimented Jordan for having successfully accepted Palestinian refugees and told King Abdullah: “I’d love for you to take on more, cause I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.” Furthermore, Trump confidently proclaimed that Egypt and Jordan will absolutely accept the Gazan Arabs into their respective countries.
ZOA agrees that this is the best way to bring peace to the region, and is long overdue. It is also a way to punish Arab terrorism and make it clear terrorism will not bring benefits but only losses to the Arab terrorists. This plan will also keep southern Israel and more safer from terror and rocket attacks. Since 2005, 35,000 rockets have been launched from Gaza against the Jewish state, causing men, women and children to regularly run into their bomb shelters. The rockets constantly disrupt their lives, with many suffering from PTSD in Gaza border towns. In fact, these towns have had to install bomb shelters on nearly every block, at bus stops, and even in the middle of playgrounds.
Israel welcomed and successfully resettled close to one million Jews who were forced out of Arab countries in the 1940s and 1950s, even while tiny Israel was in the midst of defending herself from six invading Arab armies and local Arab attackers. And Israel then was a fledgling, poor country with only 600,000 people. The Arab countries have 200 million people and considerable wealth, and 800 times the land mass of Israel.
In 1948, Arab governments refused to admit and resettle Arabs. Instead of welcoming and resettling their Arab brethren where they could lead productive, peaceful lives, Arabs kept their Arab brothers as “refugees” in Gaza and Judea/Samaria, decade after decade, to use them as cannon fodder to attack and murder Jews. Egypt, Jordan and other Arab nations slammed shut their doors – despite the fact that a large proportion of Gazan Arabs came from Egypt; and despite the fact that Jordan was carved out of the Palestine Mandate and its population is 70% “Palestinian.”
Gazan civilians have been clamoring to leave “Hamastan” (Gaza), and yet Egypt has continued to keep its doors sealed, even after October 7. And Jordan’s King Abdullah II said on November 12, 2024: “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.”
As President Trump stated, “something has to happen.” Something has to change. We need to prevent another October 7 and another Gaza war. We need to allow Gazan civilians to live somewhere that isn’t controlled by genocidal terror groups Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah. Somewhere where they can aspire to be healers and helpers – instead of being taught from birth to aspire to be jihadis who murder Jews. President Trump’s plan would achieve all this.
And Gazan Arabs have nothing to return to in Gaza. Because Hamas Arab terrorists embedded themselves into the civilian population and into schools, mosques, etc., Israel was forced to destroy civilian areas, but only after they told Arab civilians to leave those areas for their own safety. And IDF soldiers have stated that almost every home in Gaza has weapons stored for Hamas.
The U.S., under our strong President Trump, has the ability – including the power of the purse (the U.S. provides Egypt with $2.5 billion in foreign aid and Jordan with $1 billion in foreign aid, and military aid) to pressure Jordan and Egypt to allow in their Arab brothers. We look forward to President Trump using all the levers at his disposal to do so, and thereby bringing about a safer, more peaceful Middle East.
It’s also important to recall the Jewish people’s long history in Gaza, dating from Biblical times: Gaza was part of the territory promised to the Jewish people. Gaza was recaptured by Judah the Maccabee’s brother in 145 CE, who sent Jews to rebuild the Jewish community there. Gaza was the largest Jewish community in the country at the time of the Arab invasion in the seventh century. During the recent Gaza war, the IDF rediscovered the Jewish synagogue in Gaza built in 508 CE with Hebrew writing and mosaics of King David (originally discovered in 1965). There were also Jewish communities in Gaza during medieval times; the Jewish communities lost when Egypt attacked Gaza in 1948; and the 21 thriving Jewish communities that were uprooted from Gaza in 2005, when Israel foolishly withdrew from Gaza. And for those who believe in the Old Testament, in Genesis, Joshua, Judges and Kings-G-D gave Gaza and other Mideast lands to the Jewish people. (See more at “ZOA Special Report – Gaza: The Case Against Israeli Withdrawal – U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: Gaza is crucial to Israel’s security,” Feb. 3, 2004.)
We must never forget that under international law — meaning the British mandate to the Jewish people in 1922 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 — Gaza was reserved for a future Jewish state. Additionally, in a study done by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1967, it concluded that for Israel’s security reasons alone, they must keep all of Gaza. No wonder Israeli PM Netanyahu and the majority of Israelis already speak favorably of this plan.