Trump Channels Andrew Jackson and Hitler to Create Gaza Plan to Banish Palestinians
Trump’s hero, President Andrew Jackson, had his horrific Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Hitler had his Nisko Plan and the Madagascar Plan, in advance of the Final Solution.
Trump has his 2025 Gaza plan, violating all norms of ethics and humanity.
The goal of each plan was genocide or ethnic cleansing, first of the Native Americans, then the Jews and now the Palestinians. Jackson blamed the “uncivilized” Native Americans for standing in the way of American progress and manifest destiny. Hitler blamed the Jews for fomenting world communism. Now, trump is blaming the Palestinians for all that is wrong in the Middle East.
Just like Jackson and Hitler, trump is deadly serious about his patently illegal, racist, lie-filled plan.
The president, who has taken to calling himself “King”, has vowed to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” while forcibly forcing out 2 million Palestinians. Trump said Israel would turn over Gaza to the U.S. “at the conclusion of fighting.” Fighting in Gaza has been paused in a ceasefire.
Trump also said the exiled Palestinians would not be allowed to return to their homeland and that he might force Egypt and Jordan to take them in by threatening to cut off U.S. aid.
If trump’s plan is enacted, it would permanently destroy any hopes for a so-called two-state solution. Palestinians and Arab nations have long supported a two-state solution in which Israel recognizes Palestinian independence and in return, Palestinians would agree to end violence against Israel. Israel currently rejects a two-state solution. The plan has been discussed only to be mired in disagreements through the years.
Trump claimed that exiled Palestinians would benefit from a new start. Most of Gaza was obliterated, leaving land virtually unlivable as a result of Israeli attacks which killed more than 40,000 Palestinians since the war began 16 months ago. Israel invaded after Hamas launched a major attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and killed more than 1,200 civilians, members of the security forces and foreign nationals.
Trump promised Palestinians that he would provide a “beautiful new land” elsewhere while Gaza would be converted for the “world’s people.” He has not explained who would fund the “beautiful new land.” Trump’s plan has been applauded by Israel’s far right, but Palestinians and Arab nations have roundly rejected any effort to exile them and move them like cattle to hostile territory.
The Geneva Conventions forbid “mass forcible transfers” from occupied lands “regardless of their motive.” The International Criminal Court, where the U.S and Israel are not members, holds that “forcible transfer” can be a war crime or, in some circumstances, a crime against humanity. Amnesty International also said that forcibly expelling Palestinians is a war crime and could be a crime against humanity.
Among other crimes Nazi leaders were charged with forcible transfer of millions of Jews at the Nuremberg trials after World War II. Forcible transfer also was among the acts for which some Bosnian Serb leaders were convicted by a U.N. tribunal over atrocities during the 1990s Balkan wars.
Native American Destruction
The early Puritans saw the intractable problems between the new American settlers and Native Americans as a holy struggle between heathen savagery and Christian civilization. Puritan ideology depicted the Native American as primitive, dark and evil. The Indian fighter, meanwhile, was considered to be acting on behalf of God to redeem the land. Stealing Native Americans land and resources and ending Native American sovereignty were seen as necessary for the nation’s security. This was the view that guided Jackson U.S. after he was elected in 1828.
Jackson owned enslaved people and was a renowned Indian fighter of the Western frontier. He agreed with the law of states’ rights above treaty rights and persuaded Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
In 1838, the act forced Native Americans to give up their land and to move to the wilderness of “Indian territory” west of the Mississippi River in the Oklahoma territory. More than 4,000 men, women and children died of exposure, starvation and disease after they were “escorted” from their traditional homes in what has become known as the “Trail of Tears.” The 1,200-mile trip was to take 80 days, but it was often much longer because of inclement winter weather and unrelenting sickness because of exposure, and dangerous ice flows while crossing the Mississippi River.
Before the Cherokee left on the deadly, involuntary peregrination, almost 1,500 had died from epidemics in the camps where they were kept. Another 1,600 died on the journey. As a result of their weakened condition, and a lack of housing and food, many more died soon after reaching their new homeland.
The U.S. government had guaranteed supplies for the Cherokees for a year after their arrival, but private contractors provided the rations and many made extra profits by providing less than they had agreed to supply. Oftentimes, what they did provide was rotten meat and moldy corn and flour.
Nisko Plan
The Nisko Plan was an operation organized by the Nazis in 1939 to deport Jews to the Lublin District of occupied Poland in 1939. The district was 300 to 400 square miles and was located between the Vistula and San rivers, southeast of Lublin. The town of Lublin had been the focus of Nazi planners since the early 1930s, after Nazi propagandist Hermann Seifert described the town as the center of Jewish worldwide power and source of their genetic potential.
The Nazis’ intention was to imprison Polish, Czech and Austrian Jews in a form of permanent, stateless purgatory. It was to be implemented between 1939 and 1940 but was cancelled in early 1940. The Nisko Plan was a preface to the Final Solution.
The idea to expel and resettle the Jews of Europe into a remote corner of Poland was devised by Adolf Hitler after the invasion of Poland in October 1939. Expulsion to the camps was initially considered as a territorial solution of the “Jewish question.” While implementing the plan, the Nazis forced Jewish civilians to live in a system of ghettos where they were used as forced labor for the war effort. The first forced labor camps were established to supply the local SS units at Lublin.
Around 95,000 Jews were deported to the Lublin reservation. To make room for the Jews, about 30,000 ethnic Germans moved away from the Lublin district in the opposite direction The main camp of the complex was formed before the construction of death camps for Jewish forced labor. In March 1942, it became the first Nazi extermination camp with permanent gas chambers.
Hitler had envisioned the short-term expulsion of all Jews from Vienna and 300,000 Jews from the Altreich to the Lublin reservation. He later approved Heinrich Himmler’s plans to deport 550,000 Jews to the Lublin reservation. The number was reduced for capacity reasons to 80,000.
Historians estimate that by January 30, 1940, 78,000 Jews had been deported to Lublin from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. In April, the reservation was dissolved, after the total number of Jews who had been transported to Nisko had reached 95,000.
Many deportees had died of starvation during the transport or at the reservation. Others died at the reservation of typhus and typhoid fever epidemics.
The Jewish prisoners were crowded in dark and dirty rooms with no glass in the windows and had to sleep on the floor. The sick were not separated from the healthy, and the supply of food, water and soap was insufficient. About 30 percent of the prisoners had no shoes, pants, or shirts, resulting in a rapid spread of lice and diseases.
On March 23, 1940, Hermann Göring with Himmler’s approval, put a hold on the Nisko Plan and by the end of April, it was finally abandoned. Among the reasons for the abandonment were the district Nazi supervisor’s refusal to accept further influx of deportees because it was so overcrowded that it would hurt the Nazis’ international reputation.
The Nisko Plan was the only territorial solution to go beyond the planning stage.
Madagascar Plan
The Madagascar Plan was the Third Reich’s last scheme for removing the Jews from German territories and creating a “colony of Jews” on the French island colony of Madagascar in the late 1930s. The idea was first proposed by the anti-Semite Paul de Lagarde in the 1880s as a solution to the “Jewish question” because, it was claimed that Jews could not assimilate into society at large.
The plan was to remove 4 million Jews to an island that was unable to accommodate even a population of 40,000 to 60,000. The Jews would be shipped to the island of Madagascar off the coast of East Africa to create a giant ghetto over a period of four years. The plan was to be financed by a special bank managing confiscated Jewish property and by contributions exacted from world Jewry.
The plan was carefully and fully conceived, down to the number of ships and resources needed and the costs and administration. Historians said the ploy was a thinly veiled attempt to murder all European Jewry by deporting them to a harsh climate where they would die of attrition.
The plan began to percolate on December 9, 1938, when French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet informed German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that the way to rid France of 10,000 Jewish refugees would be to ship them elsewhere. Around 25,000 French citizens living on the island would be resettled and compensated. The plan also was considered as a way to prevent the possible establishment in Palestine by the Jews of their own Vatican State.
Part of the island would be used for military purposes. The Jewish area would be administered by the Jews but would be under the ultimate control of the Nazi SS.
“Use can be made for propaganda purposes of the generosity shown by Germany in permitting cultural, economic, administrative and legal self-administration to the Jews; it can be emphasized at the same time that our German sense of responsibility towards the world forbids us to make the gift of a sovereign state to a race which has had no independent state for thousands of years: this would still require the test of history,” said a July 3, 1940 text of the Madagascar Plan.
The Madagascar Plan was postponed when war broke out but was reconsidered after France fell to the Nazis in1940. The stratagem was officially cancelled few weeks after the Wannsee Conference on Jan. 20, 1942. The Wannasee Conference was a pivotal development in World War II as Nazi leaders began to outline the “Final Solution.”
The Madagascar Plan also was discarded when the Battle of Britain took longer than the Nazis expected, and Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union in the fall of 1940. The fighting on the eastern front meant that Germany was in no position to transfer Jews.
The Nazis abandoned any plans to relocate Jews and instead proceeded to the attempted extermination of European Jews through the Holocaust.
Madagascar gained its independence in 1960, and Israel was one of the first nations to send an ambassador.
Resettlement of European Jews has been suggested a number of times in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The anti-Semite Paul de Lagarde first suggested evacuating the European Jews to Madagascar in his 1878 work Deutsche Schriften (“German Writings”).
Lagarde was a German biblical scholar whose aversion to traditional Christianity are considered to be the most influential precursors to Nazism.
In his 1887 essay “Jews and Indo-Germanics,” Lagarde wrote: “One would have to have a heart of steel to not feel sympathy for the poor Germans and, by the same token, to not hate the Jews, to not hate and despise those who — out of humanity! — advocate for the Jews or are too cowardly to crush these vermin. Trichinella and bacilli would not be negotiated with, trichinella and bacilli would also not be nurtured, they would be destroyed as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.”
Lagarde was among a group of anti-Semites who influenced the Nazis to create resettlement camps. Other leading anti-Semites included Henry Hamilton Beamish, the founder of The Britons in 1919, the first organization set up in Britain for the express purpose of diffusing anti-Semitic propaganda.
Another was Arnold Spencer Leese, a British fascist politician, who led his own fascist movement, the Imperial Fascist League.