Qatar Press Center discusses challenges of Palestine issue under Trump tenure

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Press Center yesterday hosted Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secret...

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Press Center yesterday hosted Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, also known as al Mubadara to discuss ‘Challenges of the Palestinian Issue in the Trump Tenure’.

The seminar was attended by President of Qatar Press Center (QPC), Saad bin Mohammed Al Rumaihi and a number of academics, experts and prominent media persons. Speaking at the event, Dr. Barghouti lauded Qatar and H H the Amir for their support to Palestinian people. “We feel in Qatar as we are in our country and we greatly appreciate Qatar’s firm positions despite the pressures that we know are being exerted in this region,” said Barghouti.

He added: “I would like to express my great appreciation for Qatar, H H the Amir, and all those working in various fields and areas, especially in the media field.” He said Palestinian people are facing several major challenges today, some of which existed before Trump came to power and some of which became more evident after Trump was elected in these elections. “The first challenge is that in Israel today there is a government that can be said without hesitation a fascist government in the literal sense of the word,” said Barghouti.  He said it is not only a racist Zionist government that is hostile to the Palestinian people and the Arab peoples, but more than that, it is a government with a fascist character. “The problem is that the fascist pattern in its behaviour is not limited to those who are actually in the government, but also extends to the Zionist parties in the Zionist opposition. Both parties share this orientation,” said Barghouti.  He said this became clear especially after October 7 that Israeli society is dangerously moving towards fascism in a phenomenon that is perhaps unprecedented in the modern era, except perhaps what happened in Germany during the rise of Nazism.

“That’s why they are putting forward annexation and Judaisation plans. Now they are talking about reoccupying the entire Gaza Strip. They are now carrying out the most dangerous ethnic cleansing operation in northern Gaza. They are carrying out genocide and trying to liquidate the entire Palestinian cause,” said Barghouti.

He said the number of Palestinian martyrs and wounded in Gaza during this year exceeded 160,000, which means more than seven percent of the population of the Gaza Strip.