【Summary】

Just like Anglo-French-Israeli imperial gambit of the Suez Crisis of 1956 marked the turning point from the European imperialism era to the US unipolar era, Trump’s Gaza take over ploy will become the decisive turning point from the US unipolar era to the multipolar era of China, BRICS plus, SCO and the Global South.

1. Trump’s criminal Gaza take over plan

In early February, US President Donald Trump, together with Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, announced his plan that the US would take over and “own” Gaza, forcefully moving Palestine people living there to Egypt and Jordan, with the US troops deploying and occupying Gaza if necessary.

[Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, February 2025]

Forced relocation of citizens is a war crime. Forced relocation of citizens across borders is a crime against humanity.

Netanyahu has already committed war crimes in his invasion and genocide in Gaza. Trump has committed crimes and was sentenced to be guilty in the US court. Being criminals, they don’t care committing another crimes

Under criminal Trump, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth would start advocating “the 21st century crusade” and organizing multi-national occupation forces to take over Gaza, together with Italy, Reform UK and German AfD.

In his book "American crusade", he calls for fighting against America's enemies including leftists and Islam.

[Pete Hegseth’s book "American crusade" advocates the crusade of the 21st century]

[Italy’s far-right PM Giorgia Meloni]

[Nigel Farage, a leader of Reform UK, which is UK’s far-right populist political party]

[Alice Weidel, co-leader of AfD, German far-right political party, who was nominated as a chancellor candidate]

This is nothing but a sheer imperialism and aggression, invading and expanding territories by force.

Probably, after years of US occupying Gaza, the US would let Israel annex Gaza as its territory so that Israel would achieve and come closer to its goal of establishing Greater Israel.

[A map of “Greater Israel”]

After conquering Gaza, it is likely that the US will declare the resumption of a war against ISIS and, using it as a pretext, invade Syria together with Israel. The real purpose is to seize oil and gas in the Levant and the East Mediterranean.

[EastMed Pipeline Project]

2. The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956

Trump’s criminal imperialistic Gaza take over plan reminds us of the Suez crisis of 1956. [1]

Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to build Aswan Dam for the Egyptian people and asked Britain and the US for finance. Initially, Britain and the US were cooperative.

[Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and British PM Anthony Eden]

[Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and PM Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union]

However, when President Nasser asked the Soviet Union for finance too, Britain and the US repealed the promise of finance and walked away.

Facing shortage of money to build the Aswan Dam, President Nasser decided to nationalize the Suez Canal and allocate the income of passage fee to finance the construction of the Aswan Dam.

Then, being furious and trying to maintain the glory of the empire of Great Britain, British PM Anthony Eden conspired with France and sent aircraft carriers and military convoy to Egypt to occupy the Suez Canal. Israel joined the aggression and invaded into Egypt from the east.

To resist, Egypt intentionally sank ships in the Suez Canal so that the canal would be unusable.

At this juncture, US President Dwight Eisenhower intervened. The US submitted to the Security Council of the UN a draft resolution blaming UK and France and demanding them to withdraw their troops.

As UK vetoed the resolution, the US put the matter to the General Assembly of the UN and achieved a overwhelming majority resolution to send UN peace keeping force to the Suez Canal to replace British and French troops.

President Eisenhower literally scolded British PM Eden in his televised address, harshly blaming Britain and France’s imperialistic selfishness.

Moreover, President Eisenhower blocked IMF’s finance to Britain to cripple its economy.

Britain and France had no choice but withdraw their troops. British PM Eden resigned two months later.

The Suez Crisis made it clear that the era of European imperialism was gone and the UN and the US would take the leadership and initiative to the new world order.

The precedent of the Suez Crisis can be applied to handling of the current situation of Trump’s criminal Gaza take over plan.

3. The Gaza Crisis would be a vivid turning point from the unipolar to the multipolar

Now, after 50 years, in 2025, it is the US that behave imperialistically

China holds the UN Security Council Presidency for February. China will form a united front with EU and Russia and try to destroy Trump’s criminal Gaza take over plan for the sake of the mankind.

[Ambassador Fu Cong, Permanent Representative of China to the UN]

A draft resolution blaming Trump’s Gaza take over plan and demanding the plan’s discard would be submitted.

However, the US would veto the Security Council resolution and keep implementing Trump’s Gaza take over plan.

Under these circumstances, China, BRICS plus, SCO and the Global South should unite and work together to put the matter to the General Assembly of the UN and achieve a majority resolution to send UN peace keeping force to Gaza to replace US and Israel troops.

At the same time, China, BRICS plus, SCO and Arab countries would make a joint statement in which they flatly reject Trump’s plan to forcefully move Palestine people to neighboring Arab countries and declare that the two state solution is the only solution.

Also, China, BRICS plus, SCO and Arab countries would impose severe economic sanctions toward Israel to cripple its economy and war capability.

[China’s FM Wang Yi held talks with the delegation of Arab-Islamic foreign ministers, November 2023]

[BRICS plus and partner countries]

[SCO (the Shanghai Cooperation Organization) member states, observer states and dialogue partners]

Then, China, BRICS plus, SCO and the Global South should organize multi-national UN peace keeping forces and oust the US and Israel’s military out of Gaza, establishing the two state solution.

[China’s UN peace keeping force]

[India’s UN peace keeping force]

[Brazil’s UN peace keeping force]

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to scold Trump through Internet televised address, blaming the US’s selfish imperialistic deeds and make it clear that the US led unipolar era is over and that it is the multipolar era where world nations work together to achieve peace and prosperity through win-win relations based on mutual respect and equal status.

[Chinese President Xi Jinping]

[US President Donald Trump]

Moreover, China can float an idea of stopping purchase of US treasury bonds. The US’s revenue of $4.92 trillion is smaller than its expenditures of $6.75 trillion by $1.83 trillion. The deficit of $1.83 trillion is financed by selling US treasury bonds, whose major purchaser is China.

Therefore, China, hopefully with Japan, another major purchaser, can float an idea of stopping purchase of US treasury bonds to force the US to abandon the Gaza take over plan and accept the two state solution.

If China and Japan stop purchasing US treasury bonds, the US government would get bankrupted immediately. All the US government services would stop. Even salaries to soldiers would stop.

[The US government’s expenditures, revenue and deficit]

[US treasury bond]

Before Israel’s invasion of Gaza, there was a 1 kilometer-width buffer zone set up by Israel between Israel and Gaza. However, it was set up on the side of Palestine territoriy, diminishing Palestine area. It didn't work to prevent a conflict as Israel itself trespassed the buffer zone. [2]

[Israel/Palestine buffer zone, which had existed before Israel’s Gaza invasion, had been as narrow as 1 kilometer width and did not work]

China can propose significant enlargement of the buffer zone in the direction of Israel territory so that sufficient space will be created. China can also propose that BRICS plus, SCO and the Global South will station troops as UN peace-keeping forces in the enlarged buffer zone to ensure the two state solution and the peace and stability of the region.

[Addendum]

A day after Trump announced his criminal Gaza take over plan of using US troops to forcefully move Gazans from Gaza, he backtracked on the plan, stating no US soldiers would be needed. [3]

Probably, given the power of BRICS plus, SCO and the Global South, Trump finally realized a dire consequence that would happen to the US if he puts US troops into forcefully moving Gazans.

Trump said, “No US soldiers would be needed in Gaza plan”, but, in that case, how will he move Gazans who determined to stay in Gaza? Will he leave to Israel the dirty job of forcefully moving Gazans as Israel doesn’t care committing war crimes?

All the more, instead of the US and Israel, it is the UN and the UN peace keeping force of BRICS plus, SCO and the Global South that should take over the security of Gaza and ensure the two state solution and the peace and stability of the region.

Thank you.

References:
(1) Suez Crisis 1956 - Documentary, April 4th 2022, Bagels.TV

(2) " 'Buffer zone' reducing Palestinian agricultural land in Gaza", June 16th 2008, The New Humanitarian

(3) "Trump says ‘no soldiers by U.S. would be needed’ in his Gaza proposal", February 6th 2025, The Hindu

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