TOKYO: Palestinian Ambassador to Japan Walid Siam has strongly criticized US President Donald Trump in response to Trump’s sudden announcement of his intention to occupy the Gaza Strip after displacing its Palestinian residents.
“We condemn the policy and statements of Trump, who claims that he wants to bring peace to the world,” Ambassador Siam said in an interview with Arab News Japan in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Siam said that the American president’s wish to possess Greenland, annex Canada, reclaim the Panama Canal, and now occupy Gaza clearly shows that Trump is the last person in the world who wants peace.
The Palestinian Ambassador pointed out that “the world is not a piece of real estate for Trump to play with according to his whims. There are international laws that govern the relationship between countries.”
He warned that Trump’s disrespect for international law will expose America to many problems in the future.
Regarding Trump’s statement calling for the expulsion of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million people and their transfer to Arab countries such as Egypt, Jordan and other countries, Ambassador Siam referred to the Geneva Convention and UN resolutions that guarantee the Palestinians’ right to their land and their right to be protected under occupation, stressing that neither the occupiers or anyone else has the right to seize them or force them to leave their lands, which are protected by international agreements.
“I think that Trump does not know the Palestinian people, who have suffered for a hundred years under the Zionist Israeli occupation,” Siam said. “And have seen hundreds of thousands of Palestinian martyrs and have been subjected to massacres committed by the Zionist occupation forces in 1947 and 1948 and beyond, and the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians who have become refugees in all the corners of the Earth.”
Ambassador Siam said that Israel’s crimes did not end there as they also occupied the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza and want to expel the Palestinians from those areas that remain for them from the land of Palestine.
“Israel is still committing human massacres against the Palestinians, and despite all this, the Palestinian people are still clinging to their lands and are firmly rooted in the land of their ancestors,” he said. “This is a historical Palestinian land and is not for sale or bargaining. We are in our land. Other people came who do not have a land.”
“We continue to tell the entire world that the Palestinians have the right to their independent state on their land and we will not give that up until the last drop of Palestinian blood. There is no power in the world that can banish us from existence or uproot us from our land, so we are telling the entire world that international law must be respected.”
Ambassador Siam strongly criticized the American policy of hegemony and arrogance, saying, “America is not international law and must respect the rule of law. America and Congress do not represent global leadership or global law.”
“We are the only legitimate residents of Palestine, and the others are illegitimate,” he added, referring to the Jews who came to Palestine from all over the world. “This is what Trump does not know. He does not understand what the land of Palestine is.”
Palestinian Ambassador to Japan: The world is not real estate for Trump who does not understand what Palestine is
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Palestinian Ambassador to Japan: The world is not real estate for Trump who does not understand what Palestine is
- “We condemn the policy and statements of Trump, who claims that he wants to bring peace to the world,” Ambassador Siam said
- The Palestinian Ambassador pointed out that “the world is not a piece of real estate for Trump to play with according to his whims
