There’s one good thing about Donald Trump’s presidency: he says things as they are. And he doesn’t hide what America thinks.
For decades, whether it was from Harry Truman, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, we heard platitudes that pay lip service to “doing justice” to the Palestinians.
We heard repeated promises of a “Palestinian state” which is not viable in any real sense of statehood!
BACKGROUND
- During a press conference with Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Donald Trump claimed 'the US will take over the Gaza Strip'
- In response, war criminal Netanyahu suggested that 'it’s something that could change history', while praising Trump for 'thinking outside the box with fresh ideas'
- The world has overwhelmingly spoken out in opposition to the remarks, but what matters now is the endgame — how this rhetoric will manifest
- Last month, a ceasefire took effect after 15 months of the worst genocide in living memory, with at least 62,000 martyred and 14,000+ missing
Trump certainly speaks his mind
But this US President says things the way America thinks they should be.
At the White House on Tuesday, he said,
The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too.
We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site.
Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.
We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. The Riviera of the Middle East. This could be so magnificent.” [1]
European colony that is the Zionist state
Those of us who have observed the Middle East over decades know full well that the Zionist occupation of Palestine is nothing more than a colony which represents Western interests in the Middle East.
In fact, the occupation was originally established by the British after World War I.
But now, for the first time in over 75 years, Trump is proposing that part of Palestine, i.e. the Gaza Strip, should be colonised directly by the United States.
Every informed commentator on this issue — whether it be pro-Zionist governments of the West, like Britain and France, or the client states in the Middle East — has condemned this proposal.
They all know it’s unworkable.
Client states in the Middle East rattled
The client states in the Middle East — the Gulf regimes and others, like the Sisi regime in Egypt — are undoubtedly perilously fragile at the best of times.
Were they to accept the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and direct US occupation, as well as millions of refugees coming into their countries, they know with certainty that the dissent and destabilisation that this would cause would be a threat to their own positions.
Understanding Trump’s thought process
One potential reason
So the above begs the question, why is Trump proposing this?
One reason could be that this is Trump’s way of doing business. He’s the businessman that starts his bid for what he wants to buy so low, that it would be an insult to the seller!
But he’s also the businessman with muscle behind him.
He’s like the supermarket boss who can get farmers to sell vegetables for next to nothing, to the point that they are at risk of going bankrupt… just because they have the financial muscle to do that.
And that is exactly Trump’s way of operating in the international arena.
He sets the agenda so strongly in America’s favour that it seems absurd to any external observer.
But the result is either he gets what he wants, or a substantial amount of what he wants, even if he’s forced to compromise on his bargaining position.
And that’s quite simply because he started his bargaining from a ludicrous point.
Another explanation?
Another possibility is that Trump genuinely thinks Gaza is so destroyed by the Zionist assault, that nobody would want to live in such a region.
If this is the case (and I doubt that it is), Trump doesn’t know the people of Palestine and the people of Gaza.
These people were expelled from their homes in 1948 and earlier, and many have lived in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon, or as refugees in other places in the Middle East.
The Palestinian people do not think of their new living conditions as “beautiful”. Hence, they would not agree with him, nor would they expect that his promise of relocation from Gaza would be any better than what they have experienced to date.
Trump is not stupid; he may not be directly well informed about the Middle East, but he will surround himself with advisors who are in the know and recognise that his proposals are likely to be unacceptable to any party in the region, with the exception of the Zionist occupiers.
A third possible explanation
The third possibility is that, in his arrogance and that of the United States, he genuinely believes the country has the power and authority to be seen as an honest broker in the region.
He may even believe the US can bring peace to the region by rebuilding Gaza and encouraging Egypt and Jordan to accept refugees, all while pushing the Gulf states to fund the relocation so they can live in half-decent conditions.
This level of arrogance and hubris is hard to see as anything other than sowing the seeds for a disaster for the United States.
It’s a stage of arrogance that is greater even than the idea that the Iraq War was going to bring “freedom and democracy” to the Middle East, or that it would be welcomed!
Western backing of the Zionist regime
Over the last 15 months, we have seen every sacred cow of the West slaughtered at their own hands with their support for genocide, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and untold war crimes.
We have seen this supported politically by Western leaders and militarily by their supplying of arms to the Zionist occupation to commit war crimes. This is just another step in the same direction.
Trump is justifying occupation of another part of the world by the United States, just because he thinks America can!
In conclusion
It is my belief that either Trump will back down from this plan and settle for something lesser — which will still be unquestionably harmful to the Palestinians — or if he proceeds, he will destabilise the region more than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did combined.
And if the region is destabilised, he may then come to regret the day that he initiated the fall of the fragile regimes in the Middle East, which have for decades secured their own and Western interests over and above the interests of the people of the region.
Indeed, it may well be that that is the first step towards the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a much better order in the region, which would bring peace, justice, and security to all the people.
It is only in the history of Islamic rule that Muslims, Jews, and Christians could live and did live with peace and justice for any significant period of time.
We pray we see that time restored once again!
Source: Islam21c
Notes
The guy fails to learn from the history of all known dictators, arrogance and egoism are his failures.
Hw will fail right on his face, and Allah is The Sustainer and Helper of the weak.
Thank you for shedding light on the impact of Donald Trump’s policies in Gaza.
Mary Trump ( his niece) made the following observation in her book Too Much and Never Enough, referring to his first term in office, she said ‘he ran the country, like a business’. This is what it is, in his warped brain, it’s a property investment, along side the aspirations of his Jew son in law.
That smirk on Netanyahu’s ugly, caricature of a face, they plot and plan, and so does Allah Ta’la
وَٱللَّهُ خَيْرُ ٱلْمَـٰكِرِينَ
Be interesting to see, if Jordan, Egypt and KSA can be bought to the extent of creating anther Nakba.