The entitlement to the imagined American president of the lands of others is very familiar to the Africans.
The announcement of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, that he intends to expel all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and turn it into the “Riviera in the Middle East”, which is controlled by an American, from paradoxes, from Western nations, from Western nations, from Western nations. This Apple bombing backed by Israel that destroyed the region. Many note that ethnic cleansing violates international law and that the Geneva Conventions do not explicitly prohibit the forced displacement of the civilian population, for any reason.
This is all true, but as an African, it was attracted to a slightly different side of Trump’s advertisement: his imaginative entitlement to the lands of others. It should not be isolated from the right to take Gaza from the allegations it made in the lands of Greenland and Benmary. They are all of the same root, which was sponsored by half the Millennium of the European colonial era.
White fantasies can be tracked for rights of other peoples Treaty 1479 from Alcacovas, Which has proven the principle that a region outside Europe can be demanded by a European country, and has been followed up Within 50 years Under the Tordesillas Treaty and the SARAGOSSA Treaty in which the Portuguese and the Spaniards claimed to divide the world among them. There is a clear line from this to the famous West Berlin Conference in Berlin after 400 years, attended by the United States and all the main European powers that have proven the legal claim by Europeans that all Africa can occupy those who can take it.
It was in Berlin, The “effective occupation” doctrine Basically, it is necessary for the occupation powers to prove that they can impose their rule and protect free trade in order to legalize their claims – expressed. The precedent of the use of capitalism and development of capitalism to justify the colonial occupation is reflected today in Trump’s assertion that he will rebuild Gaza, and create jobs and prosperity for “everyone”. In essence, Trump is unintentionally trying to build his colonial demands to Gaza on the doctrine: that he can impose American rule, in this case by expelling the indigenous people, and it will enable trade to prosper.
In order to be fair, Trump depends only on the ideas that have been circulated for several months, which emanates to a large extent from Israel, which seeks to justify the continuous occupation under the percentage of converting Gaza to Dubai or Singapore. In May last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claims Such a plan revealed This will retain the Israeli control of the region and justify it by implementing the “Marshall Plan” that would turn it into an “important industrial port on the Mediterranean” and make it part of a “huge free trade zone”.
Africans can also witness, ideas that sacrifice local sovereignty and rights in the altar of international free trade systems rarely work well for citizens. The structures aimed at enabling the free trade put in place by the Berlin Conference 140 years ago gave birth to the horror that was in the state of free Congo – a real hell that killed a life of up to 13 million Congolese. The conference also excelled and photographed what became known as the stampede for Africa, which was accompanied by the wars of brutality from conquest, disease and genocide. After more than a century, Africans still live with the effect.
Despite this, all over the world, the memories of the Berlin Conference and the destruction it made faded. In 2017, the Humanitarian Conference in Berlin, then the ICRC, Mamadou Sao, He started his remarks By referring to “I am from Africa. It is interesting to be in Berlin for Congress.” The joke fell flat. will Comment later on x This was the day when he realized that the majority of European educated Europeans know little about their colonial history. The wrong abstinence That Israel left the Gaza Strip in 2005, in the hope that the newly independent state will become Singapore in the Middle East, but Hamas turned it into a base of terrorism?
But the lesson is clear. Reinstitation in Gaza, whether by Israel, the United States or any alliance of the states, is not viable or moral. There is no alternative to local Palestinian sovereignty. African countries have to rely on Berlin’s history and say with one voice: Never again!
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