A prominent British journalist affirmed that the Palestinians have no choice but to stay in their homeland and struggle to nullify the US President Donald Trump's peace plan in the Middle East, which he announced on Tuesday.

The editor of British Middle East Eye news website David Hurst said that the Palestinians "have nowhere to flee", as Europe has closed its doors to any future mass exodus.

Therefore, the Palestinians have one option, namely, survival and struggle, according to Hurst's advice, which stresses the necessity for the Palestinian people to unite because by uniting, they can thwart Israel's "superior" plans based on ethnic cleansing.

The writer notes that the Palestinians have done this before, and they can repeat it again.

Netanyahu's plan will not succeed
Hurst considers that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expansion plan alone will not succeed, justifying what he went on to say that the infrastructure projects that Tel Aviv established to consolidate its occupation, such as settlements, the separation wall, roads, and tunnels, as well as being an apartheid state "are all pain relievers from a country with A Jewish majority, but it does not address the cause. "

The British journalist quotes a report prepared by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics in 2016 and submitted to the Knesset (Parliament) that about 6.5 million Muslims and 6.44 million Jews live in the area between the Jordan Valley and the Mediterranean Sea.

Hurst says that these numbers are now outdated, pointing out that the statistics office spoke of Muslims and not of Palestinians, as it excluded Palestinian Christians.

Hurst: Netanyahu's expansion plan will not be successful (Reuters)

Another catastrophe awaits them
According to the Middle East Eye article, the mass deportation of Palestinians is another catastrophe and lies at the heart of Trump and Netanyahu's vision of peace, which the editor describes in his article on the site as "a poor peace that arises after the defeat of the struggle of the Palestinians to build a state in their lands."

Hurst cautions that the essence of the "catastrophic vision" does not lie - in his opinion - in Trump's or Netanyahu's "talkative" conversations, but rather in a paragraph within the plan document that is located at 180 pages.

That paragraph talks about Israel's land swap that might include "populated and uninhabited areas".

The author of the article believes that the document was accurate with regard to the population you are referring to, and they are the 1948 Palestinians living in the so-called Northern Israel Triangle consisting of Kafr Qara, Arara, Baqa al-Gharbiya, Umm al-Fahm, Qalansawa, Tayyibah, Kafr Qasim, al-Tiri, Kafr Bara, and Jaljuliyah.

Redrawing the boundaries
The document goes on to say that "the vision hopes that the parties will agree to redraw the borders of Israel in a way that leads to these societies being part of the Palestinian state."

The plan requires that the civil rights of the residents of those areas be subject to the laws and judicial rulings in force before the relevant authorities.

Hurst considered that paragraph "the hidden and most dangerous part of this plan," adding that Arab countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE welcomed "without reservation" the Trump peace plan in the Middle East.

Before concluding his article, the writer advised the Palestinians that the new reality should be confronted, noting that the PLO's recognition of Israel in 1993 eventually reached a dead end.

Addressing the Palestinian people, he said that neither the United States nor international law or United Nations resolutions have already come to their aid.

He added, "In this sense alone, Trump's brutal plan has served the Palestinians known to have eradicated an illusion that has lasted decades."