What did Prime minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong of Australia, Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada and Prime Minister Starmer of the UK expect when they stated unequivocally during the Biden Presidency that: “Hamas can have no role in any future Palestine”?

They had no idea. Like me, until seeing the late horror show that was the Harris 2024 campaign, no one expected a new Trump presidency, and Biden was an appeaser.

Did they think that Hamas would simply take their decades of UNRWA-indoctrinated hate, billions of slush dollars and just leave the devastation they created? Did the Palestinian Authority expect to merely step in carte blanche to govern a populace set against each other? What of Palestinian Islamic Jihad that had held kidnapped hostages taken from Israel on October 7 2023? And what of the antisemitism infused by UNRWA in the very youngest generations of Gazans alive?

Well, now we know why Israel accepted the terrible hostage-release ceasefire currently underway—and why despite Hamas breaking that deal numerously, Israel has sat on its hands.

Trump just said in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, which I’ve transcribed here verbatim with no breaks:

“The U.S. will TAKE OVER the Gaza strip and we will do a job with it too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. LEVEL the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Just level it out and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the PEOPLE OF THE AREA”.

Screw the UN and UNIFIL, says Trump. The US Marines are coming.

And he wants Gazans resettled next door in Egypt and Jordan. For context, we remember that after their failed invasion of the new State of Israel in 1948, Egypt took over the Gaza Strip in 1949 and Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1950. These lands were never “Palestine”. And like Egypt in Gaza, Jordan refused to take back the West Bank after losing its territory in the 1967 Six Day War.

So, now Israel will turn its combined might at destroying Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the West Bank. While the Arab World will unlikely oppose Trump’s plan. It is a gold mine of economic and financial opportunity.

Only the extremist Muslim Brotherhood remains the unknown.

As for Australia, unless it was cut out of this proposed diplomacy, why did PM Albanese see fit to recently import 3,000 Gazans, more than any other Western country to its shores? How will their future be served a world away from where a Palestine may be formed? That Palestine will not necessarily find itself out of the rubble of Gaza and the West Bank—it may yet be a generation away. But it certainly looks viable in Jordan, east of the river by that name.

There is one other unknown of course too, and here we come back to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The ghost of Beirut October 23 1983 will hang in everyone’s minds. On that day 241 US peacekeepers, mainly Marines, died in the explosion of an Islamic Jihad mega bomb.

Any rebuilding of Gaza must therefore require the elimination of any terror and missile threats coming from Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, the West Bank and Egypt.

It means that the threat of Extremist Islam in the West and the protest infrastructure that has taken over its streets must be deported and defunded too.

Is this a land grab? Absolutely. Repeating the mistakes of eight decades and expecting a different result—peace—is madness, as they say.

Arafat’s kleptocratic shadow over what could have been Palestine ended today. The face of the Middle East is changing.

© 2025 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: “Peacekeepers at War”, the story of the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut October 1983. Author’s copy.