Trump says the quiet part out loud
In yesterday’s press conference with a smirking Netanyahu, Trump vowed to “take over” Gaza - with American troops, if necessary - and “own it.” As shocking as this sounds, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Israel has been calling the shots on US foreign policy for decades. The Israel lobby owns the US government. Members of Congress live in fear of crossing “The Lobby.” Each member of Congress (apart from Kentucky’s Thomas Massie) has an AIPAC minder to keep them in line and every US president has shown nearly unconditional support for Israel since its founding.
The series of disastrous Middle East wars the US has waged against Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and Syria and, if Netanyahu gets his way, Iran, were all done at Israel’s behest to topple the governments that supported the Palestinian resistance, a resistance that developed in response to over seven decades of Israeli brutality that culminated in genocide.
Not only have millions of people died in these futile wars, but the US has become despised by most nations, isolating and bankrupting itself in the process. Shamefully, the US doesn’t act as a sovereign state with an independent foreign policy, but as a tool of the Zionist settler colonial project.
Donald Trump is following the same playbook as his predecessors but, unlike them, he says the quiet part out loud.
He openly supports Israel’s goal of ethnic cleansing in both Gaza and the West Bank. He calls Gaza a “demolition site” that will be levelled and cleaned out to “create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area” - not for the Palestinians but for the Jews. Like the New York real estate developer he is, he envisions Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
He's asked Jordan and Egypt to accept those Palestinians who aren’t killed during the next phase of “cleansing,” even though they’ve said they won’t.
He lifted Biden’s sanctions on violent Israeli settlers.
He ordered the Pentagon to deliver more 2000-pound bombs that have no other purpose than to kill civilians.
He appointed “Christian” Zionists Elise Stefanik and Mike Huckabee as rabidly pro-Israel ambassadors to the UN and Tel Aviv.
If President Trump were a strong leader, he’d turn Benjamin Netanyahu over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face trial for war crimes. Then he’d pay the billions needed to rebuild Gaza that Israel destroyed using more than 85,000 tonnes of US-supplied bombs, greater than the entire amount of ordinance used during WWII. But he’s a weak man, in a long line of weak men, who are controlled by a tiny genocidal state in the Middle East.
The American journalist Max Blumenthal summed it up well:
All spot on and the tourist poster is brilliant.i have suggested a couple of names for the hotels in the new Gaza Resort....offensive. true, but not as offensive as the mass slaughter of doctors, journalists, women and children over the past 15 months. How about Auschwitz Aparthotels and Buchenwald Beach Club for starters?
Scary, to say the very least. Amazing how so much horror has only really been noticed by most of the world's population over the past 15 or so months, when in fact it's been going on for far longer.
Gaza which they have flattened with so many dead (murdered) people under the rubble, will never be a happy or peaceful place for the Israeli settlers, it will be haunted, they will be haunted. I have experience of ghosts, not in a bad way, but I'd say when so many have been slaughtered in an area, the ghosts won't tolerate those who have done them so much harm. Sounds weird I know, and just my thoughts, but the souls of the dead can remain, for whatever reason.
This is not going to end well, for anyone, very sad indeed.