Well, I was wrong again. I thought that Donald Trump’s scheme to take control of Gaza and send the Palestinians to some great, new homes in Egypt and Jordan was just a negotiating ploy. Nope. He is serious about it and persists insisting that it is a great idea and has the backing of Arab nations in the region. Nope. That dog won’t hunt.
Trump met today with Jordan’s King Abdullah and reiterated his pitch at a lengthy impromptu press conference in the Oval Office. King Abdullah sat uncomfortably by his side, blinking furiously like a newly hatched owl exposed to a klieg light, and offered up the weak proposal that his country would provide medical treatment in Jordan for 2,000 Palestinian children. When Trump insisted that Egypt would be on board, Abdullah demurred and said that Egypt was in contact with other Arab nations and would offer a proposal in the future.
However, after leaving the White House, King Abdullah xittted (pronounced “shitted”) the following on X:
Well, the future for Egypt did not take long to arrive:
Trump is talking nonsense and none of the Arab leaders, despite Washington’s threats, are endorsing his proposal.
Trump’s description of the Palestinian plight in Gaza is totally divorced from reality. He repeated today what he said at his joint press conference with Bibi Netanyahu last week:
I also strongly believe that the Gaza Strip, which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades and so bad for the people anywhere near it, and especially those who live there and frankly who’s been really very unlucky. It’s been very unlucky. It’s been an unlucky place for a long time.
Being in its presence just has not been good and it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there. Instead, we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and frankly bad luck.
He ignores the genocide. The residents of Gaza did not destroy their homes, their schools, their mosques and their hospitals. The Zionists did that . . . with American help to boot. US-supplied bombs created the vast devastation across Gaza. Hamas did not do that.
During the press conference with Bibi, Trump’s recitation of the events in Gaza over the past 16 months reflected the worst of Israeli propaganda:
Over the past 16 months, Israel has endured a sustained aggressive and murderous assault on every front, but they fought back bravely. You see that and you know that. What we have witnessed is an all-out attack on the very existence of a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland. The Israelis have stood strong and united in the face of an enemy that has kidnapped, tortured, raped and slaughtered innocent men, women, children and even little babies.
Hamas did not slaughter children and babies. That is a Zionist trope. And the carnage? The Israelis have murdered at least 60,000 men, women and children, while the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 left 1,139 dead Israelis. However, there is evidence that as many as 500 of the Israeli casualties were inflicted by the Israeli military. Israel, not Hamas, is responsible for the “sustained aggressive and murderous assault.”
Trump taking credit for securing the ceasefire will be short-lived. Come Saturday at noon in Jerusalem, Netanyahu is going to send the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) back into action:
If our hostages are not released by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.
This will be Trump’s war going forward — breaking his promise to his voters not to get the US involved in more wars. Once Israel starts attacking the Palestinians, Hezbollah and the Houthis will renew their attacks on Israel, which will tempt Trump to expand the US role in the conflict. Trump’s honeymoon will be over and the political inroads Trump made with Arab American voters will be demolished.
Reprinted with permission from Sonar21.
