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Is President Trump's Gaza Plan Workable?
CGTN Europe
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06/02/2025
Mary Kaldor, Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict Research Programme at The London School of Economics and Political Science spoke to CGTN Europe about Trump’s Gaza plan.
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Well, staying with Gaza, Professor Mary Calder is from the London School of Economics and
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Political Science. Professor Calder, thank you for joining us. What do you make of President
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Trump's proposals for Gaza, then?
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Well, I think they're completely mad. First of all, it's completely unacceptable and contrary
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to international law. And secondly, it's impractical. Why should people move? Who is
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going to provide them with these wonderful homes he's talking about? And thirdly, if
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it happens, it will be another Nagorno-Karabakh war. That's what happened to the Palestinians
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in 1948 and will be the source of endless future war.
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Now you say completely mad, but we are talking about here the most powerful man in the world.
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Donald Trump has seen an outcry internationally, but can he go ahead anyway and do what he
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likes?
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I don't think so. I think it's quite alarming that he is the most powerful person in the
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world. But I think, and there don't seem to be very strong and powerful domestic constraints
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operating in the United States, which there should be. But of course, he is the Commander-in-Chief.
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But on the other hand, within the Republican parties, there are a lot of differences. He
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got elected on an America First platform, which seemed to imply that he was not keen
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on interfering in the rest of the world and he wanted to focus on American problems. But
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instead what he's doing is making threats, not just against Gaza, but also Greenland
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and Panama. And I think for many on his own side, that may be quite alarming. But on this
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particular issue, I think the rest of the world is more or less united in opposition.
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And I find it very difficult to imagine how he could possibly succeed. The only people
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who can support him are a small group on the right wing of Israeli politics.
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And what Donald Trump has said is, some of it is practically factual, that Gaza is in
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ruins. It's uninhabitable, most of it. So what should happen to it now, in your opinion?
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Well, I think we need to recognize a Palestinian state and find a two-state solution for the
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area. I'd actually prefer a single Palestine for both Jews and Palestinians. But at the
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moment, what's on the table is a two-state solution. And I think there needs to be a
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huge investment from the rest of the world in the reconstruction of Gaza. I think one
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of the most terrible things that's happened has been the closure of UN Refugee Agency
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that has been responsible in the past for Gaza and is the most experienced agency to
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be able to manage reconstruction. But clearly, there needs to be a huge investment in reconstruction
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and helping those people who have suffered horrendously. And of course, the other thing
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to say is, is this going to threaten the ceasefire? How do we maintain the ceasefire?
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Because to go back to war after all this for those people would be such a tragedy.
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Yeah, absolutely. Professor Mary Calder from the London School of Economics and Political
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Science, we thank you for your expertise. Thank you.
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