“I am not responsible for commenting,” said Defense Minister Nuno Melo after Trump says the US “will take over the Gaza Strip.” Prime Minister Luís Montenegro does not want to draw “hasty conclusions.”
“Riviera in the Middle East.” That’s what Donald Trump wants for the Gaza Strip, which has “a lot of potential” and will “be taken” by the US, the US president said after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip And let’s do a good job with her… Let’s develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something that the whole Middle East can be proud, ”the businessman and former real estate promotor at a press conference on Tuesday night fair.
Trump has not excluded the possibility of sending US troops to support Gaza’s reconstruction and considers US participation to be “long term”.
Palestinians can go to live for Jordan or EgyptTrump said, despite the opposition of these countries and the Palestinians themselves. “They would be happy” for leavingif they had the opportunity to do so in a “pleasant place with pleasant borders.” It is estimated that two million people live in the Gaza Strip.
The plan to “reinstall” Palestinians in other places was not well received by the international community and was quickly convicted of several countries, but Portugal was not one of them.
Melo does not comment on “singularities”
To the Minister of Defense, Nuno Melo, “It is not responsible for commenting” North American politics, said on Wednesday, and Prime Minister Luís Montenegro stressed that the US and Portugal are “unequivocally allied” and refused “to tenure foreign policy.”
“It is not for me to comment on the US internal policy. Obviously, it is very relevant to me to realize that the US is a fundamental ally of the NATO, ”said Melo:” They are singularities of US politics that are very rich and encouraging news at this purpose. “
The BE has announced that it wants to urgently hear the defense minister in Parliament due to his “very serious statements.”
Montenegro “doesn’t even want to talk” about an “Azorean Riviera”
Although Trump was very clear, Montenegro rejected “hasty conclusions” from his statements, but condemned “any intervention, purpose, or intention to have an ethnic cleaning”.
Free Parliamentary Leader Isabel Mendes Lopes even put a hypothetical scenario: “Imagine that a day Donald Trump decides that he wants to attach the Azoreswho wants to make a riviera in the middle of the Atlantic. So who will protect us, who will raise our voice to protect Portugal when Portugal does not protect the other territories? ”.
“There are things that the best is not even talking about them,” was the Prime Minister’s response.
“Portugal’s position cannot be shrugged and consider that they are singularities of American politics. No, it is a violation of human rights, it is a violation of the rights of the Palestinian people and Portugal has to be very clear to condemn these statements by the president of the United States, ”said the parliamentary leader of Livre, who appeals that“ this position by of the Portuguese government is quickly corrected ”.
EU “TAKED NOTE”
The Gaza Strip is “an integral part of a future Palestinian state,” the European Union (EU) said shortly after Trump’s incendiary statements: “We take a note from President Trump’s statements.”
“The EU remains firmly committed to a solution of two states [Israel e Palestina]which we believe to be the only way to a lasting peace for Israelites and Palestinians, ”the same source added.
Guterres lament “dehumanization”
The United Nations Secretary-General (UN), António Guterres, defended the law of Palestinians “to simply live as human beings in their own land”, regretting “frightening and systematic dehumanization and demonization”Of this people.
Guterres considered it “essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing” and “reaffirm the solution of two states.”
“A strong and unified Palestinian governance is crucial,” he insisted.
The UN representative of Palestine stated that the Palestinian people will not abandon Gaza because “there is no power on earth” that can expel him from his homeland after the US president announces a plan to occupy the enclave.
World against Trump’s proposal
Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia and China were some of the countries that also reinforced support for the solution of two states.
“We oppose the forced displacement of residents of the Gaza Strip. China expects all parties to accept ceasefire and return to a two-state political solution, ”Lin Jian Ministry spokesman said at a press conference.
The Chinese spokesman added that the parties involved should “put the Palestinian question on the right track,” which “means a deal based on the ‘two-state solution’ that aims at lasting peace in the Middle East,” he warned. Beijing has repeatedly affirmed that Palestine should be “fully” recognized as a state in the United Nations and will insist on solving two states to ensure “peaceful coexistence” between Israelites and Palestinians.
“Revolting”
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) International International (AI) condemned the proposal “revoltingFrom Trump to Gaza.
“President Trump’s statements that appeal to the forced removal of the Palestinians from the occupied Gaza range should be wide and unequivocally convicted,” said the organization’s secretary general, Agnès Callamard, in a statement. “The language used [por Donald Trump] and inflammatory and outrageousand its proposal is a blatant violation of international law, ”he said.
“No state has the right to treat a protected population that lives under occupation, such as pedestrians in a geopolitical chess game,” he added, accusing the US president of “dangerously dehumanizing” Palestinians in Gaza.
“Racist”
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has rejected any plan to transfer “The Palestinian people out of the homeland”
“Here we were born, here we live and here we will be”declared PLO Secretary-General Hussein Sheikh in a message through social networks.
Hamas has already classified Donald Trump’s comments as “racist”.
“The American racist position is in line with that of the Israeli far-right to shift our people and eliminate our cause,” said Abdel Latif al-Qounou, spokesman for the Palestinian movement that controls Gaza.
Thousands protest in the USA
Thousands of protesters joined in several US cities to protest the first actions of the Trump administration, condemning everything from immigration to the proposal to force the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip to force.
Since 1967, Israel has built about 160 illegal colonates that host more than 700,000 Jews in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Israeli state also claims the sovereignty of the whole city of Jerusalem, whose eastern side was captured in the 1967 war, occupied militarily and unilaterally annexed in 1980.
Trump refused on Wednesday to give more details about his plan, arguing that “it was not the right time” as he was participating in what he described as a “solemn and important” occasion, when the new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, he vowed to protect the country’s constitution before officially assuming the position.
