Palestinian Politician Says What Trump Suggested Is a War Crime: ‘By Which Law President Trump Thinks He Can Steal Our Land?’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Amanpour: “After Trump‘s Gaza declaration, Mustafa Barghouti, president of the Palestinian national initiative party, joined me from ramallah in the occupied West Bank. And as you can imagine, he was duly outraged.

BARGHOUTI: “I don’t know if the American people in leadership understand exactly what he was saying, that this is a war crime, that this is a criminal act, that this is the most serious violation of international law and by which law? President Trump thinks he can steal our land and conduct theft of Gaza Strip, to use it for his, I don‘t know, imaginary plans of construction and so on, by which law he wants to displace U.S. 2 million Palestinians from Gaza.”

Amanpour: “Military has managed to reduce much of the Gaza Strip to rubble. You know, do you think it‘s uninhabitable? Do you think Gazans can actually figure out how to live there? Steve Witkoff, who visited Gaza last week, said this what we are trying to do is be transparent to these people. If you go to Gaza today, I was there, I witnessed it. You see people going there picking up a tent and literally in some circumstances, turning right around again because there is nothing left there. What is your answer to that?”

BARGHOUTI: “Propaganda. My answer to that is that 500,000 Palestinians, half a million people, came back to the north of Gaza. Although it is destroyed, of course, because they would not leave their land. And what they are talking about is absolutely incorrect, because the last thing any Palestinian wants, after we‘ve experienced ethnic cleansing in 1948, the last thing that people want is to be ethnically cleansed. Again, people in Gaza are ready to survive regardless of the harsh conditions. And Mr. Trump should have asked Netanyahu, how could you have caused all this damage? He should have asked himself, where did this 86,000 tons of explosives that were thrown on Gaza? Where did they come from? From the United States of America, the United States has responsibility for the ethnic, for the terrible genocide that took place that Netanyahu conducted, and for that it should be paying compensation to Palestinians.”