Genevieve Harris-Fraser: Gaza plans look like crimes

Instead of planning for the ethnic cleansing of and proposed land grab of war-torn Gaza, President Donald Trump should be proposing a Marshall Plan for the wartime destruction in Gaza. Yes, Gaza needs to be rebuilt. America bears responsibility for supplying the weapons Israel used to destroy Gaza’s apartment buildings and homes and places of worship, along with its infrastructure, schools, and 11 colleges and universities.

Today, 16 of the region’s 36 hospitals remain partially operational, and many of its medical doctors, nurses, and staff frog-marched off to Israeli prisons where they were reported to have been beaten and tortured.

Following World War II, the Nuremberg trials were held for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens. On Nov. 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted unanimously to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Warrants also were issued for three Hamas leaders who were subsequently assassinated by Israel.

If President Trump makes good on his promise to seize Palestinian land in Gaza, bulldoze its dead beneath the rubble and what little remains of its homes, schools, and places of worship, and ethnically cleanse and depopulate the territory, he too may find himself with an International Criminal Court arrest warrant and an inability to travel too far from America’s borders — except, of course, to Israel.

Genevieve Harris-Fraser

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