Trump and Netanyahu agree – this ceasefire will not last
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Mitchell Plitnick writing for Mondoweiss injects a necessary dose of realism into analysis of what the Trump presidency may mean for Palestine.
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This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Wed 22 Jan 2025. Read the original here.
There will be no ‘Trump effect’ when it comes to U.S. policy toward Palestine
Some are hoping for a great “Trump effect” on U.S. policy toward Palestine after his envoy brokered the Gaza ceasefire. But Trump was only operating out of self-interest, and these same interests will lead him right back to full support for Israel.
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Trump, Biden and Bibi come together to create a human centipede……
Both BBC and ITV give vastly more prominence to released Israeli prisoners than they do for released Palestinian prisoners. It is similar consistent bias.
May I suggest, the article today [26/01/2025] by David Hearst, Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-israel-trump-netanyahu-west-bank-blow-up-region, gives a less Trump specific -focussed assessment and explores the wider impact on the Middle East when Netanyahu restarts the war on Gaza and accelerates the genocide in the West Bank. Last night, Trump suggested the deportment of the Palestinians to Egypt and/or other countries, which immediately reignited Smotrich`s intention to rid Palestine of all its indigenous people. Hearst points out that Jordan and Egypt are already facing potential uprising from its Palestinian and other Arab inhabitants, which poses a serious threat to both US puppet-regimes. Division in Israeli society, the pile of dead and wounded Zionist soldiers, its total failure in Gaza to achieve any of its “objectives” and its belief in continued military force, ignores the resistance and its allies, who are poised to up their fight for the Palestinian people. The combat-boot is not on Israel’s foot, but on the neck of Zionism. Continued war in the West Bank and Gaza signifies the end of the Palestinian Authority and ultimately the implosion of the Zionist project. Only in Trump and Netanyahu’s empty head is there a future for the genocidal apartheid state.
The suggestion that two million Gazans be sent to Indonesia reminds me of the Nazi Madagaskarplan put forward just before the fall of France (Madagascar was then a French colony). The Trump administration’s Indonesia Plan is at the same level of impracticality.
So having read carefully the article, I found no mention of Qatar and its critical role in Mediation, between the Parties, to this Israeli-American Farce.
Without Qatar and it’s diplomatic role there would be no easing of the attacks on Gaza and the predictable transfer of hostilities over to the West Bank. Though a cease fire was agreed: it clearly is not taking place.
America whichever President is currently in charge is only ever interested in one thing as are most leaders of Nations. What is good for Business Profits and Taxes. The Presidency of the USA. is important only in the methods used to achieve the same end. Sales Profit and Taxes.
The most profitable industry is Armaments because it has a twofold effect. The initial manufacturing side generates profit from sales:the export licenses generate dependency and leverage for government, enabling sweet deals on whatever America needs. Mostly right now America needs energy producing fuels. Its ongoing agression to the Arab States has reduced imports of oil and gas for differing reasons, and the added effect of Russias aggression in Ukrain has sky rocketed prices for all while increasing profits for a few.
America has also had objections to the pollution caused by the drilling that takes place on its own soil with communities now realising the effects on health and how this causes complete misery for families who cannot meet the cost of private health care when their bodies are destroyed by pollution. This causes additional problems for American high energy users and their polititcal representatives. All of this is becoming so obvious that it is the proverbial “Elephant in the room.”
What is not so obvious and little talked about is the gas field off the Gaza shoreline.
Much like the Dead Sea Salts that Israel exploits, and sells in cosmetics and bath products while extracting water at the same time. Israel would be able to tap the gas field with impunity once the Gaza-Palestinian Problem “Final solution” had been dealt with.
Luxury Apartments are planned to be built over the bones of the former inhabitants, or perhaps even incorporated into the new cement block buildings with the sea views. These are much desired by the Israelis, speaking on video, and encouraged by extremist Zionists that organise and fund illegal settlements. They would rise from the ashes of Gaza like the giants of the Arganaughts, containing the army of skeletons clouding the many windows overlooking the sins of fathers that will be visited on sons.
No doubt the settlement of Gaza by Israelis, would, like the old destroyed Palestinian villages and communities would be renamed in an attempt to wipe out its history, as the first steps to development took place and the hoardings offering the dream to reality, of expensive Hotels and Villas, Penthouse Apartments and Sea Views are generated using AI. on a constantly changing hi. tec. screen. Ahh, but as we have seen with the surfacing of the dead sea scrolls and tech enablement of recovered records and DNA history cannot be erased, only temporarily obscured.