'God has sent Trump to unite us': Palestinians say U.S. policies, aid cuts have only bolstered 'right of return' demands
In the short distance beyond Lebanon’s southern border, 76-year-old Fahida Hajj says she can just make out the village where she grew up—a patch of land in a place that, for Hajj, has no other name but "Palestine.”
Hajj was just six years old when her family fled to Lebanon, where she eventually raised four children of her own in Beirut’s overcrowded Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp. Yet, in the 71 years that have passed since Hajj fled her village, her determination to return to her homeland has never wavered. For Palestinians, Trump’s presidency has brought one blow after another. His decision to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — the holy city that both Israelis and Palestinians have laid claim to — sparked deadly protests in the Gaza Strip. Israel has long since named the city as the country’s capital, while Palestinians view it as the capital of a future independent state.
In Lebanon, initial news of the Trump administration's decision to cut the funding sparked widespread fears for the future, particularly given that many Palestinian refugees — as well as their descendents — have never been naturalized and without Lebanese identity cards, are barred from entering most occupations, forcing them to rely upon UNRWA's services.
Following the Oslo Accords, which were meant to lay the groundwork to bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an end, Palestinian refugees, he said, “were told that if they believed in these political processes, if they believed in mediation, a solution would be found that would bring an end to their plight.”
“All he cares about is to control the Arab countries and all he cares about is protecting Israel,” Wafaa said. “All he sees is money and he wants security for Israel because he will get more money. He’s after oil, he’s after fuel and he’s after money, but he doesn’t care about anything else.” “They think those who are older will die and that the new generation will forget about Palestine. But, the younger generation is remembering more and more. Much more than before,” she said. “The more they put pressure on us and say this is not our land, the more enthusiastic we become to get our land back.”
“Trump is our enemy and as an enemy, he’s squeezing us financially, depriving us from the minimum,” he said. “They took our land, our land was taken now he cuts off financial aid.” On Friday, Riyad al-Maliki, foreign minister of the Palestinian National Authority, said he expected the Trump administration's peace plan to provide little more than a "stamp of approval to Israel's colonial policies."
'Nothing Is Worse Than Where We Are'At Shatila, another refugee camp set up for Palestinians in Beirut just a few miles north of Bourj el-Barajneh, Palestinian refugees share in that hopelessness. "Nothing is worse than where we are," said Alakar, who still struggles to afford care for injuries she sustained during fighting in the eighties, which saw her lose one of her eyes and suffer gunshot wounds to her legs. Gently removing the glass eye she has had to use since, Alakar said she cannot afford to replace it, which patients are told to do every five years.
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