Fantastic fantasies to lead people from their land chasing the Middle East. Trump nouris them Jonathan Friedland

R.It is a shock and awe that lasts and occurs only more shocking and more terrible. In the past few days, the Americans have seen one of the non-elected technical billionaires destroying large pieces of the federal government-Elon Musk’s boast was feeding the International Development Agency to save life.In the wood cat– However, this was not the most terrible event a week.

Instead, this honor went to Donald Trump and suggesting his “cleaning” the Gaza Strip, by removing its people, and its bulldozing, and then re -development as “the Riviera for the Middle East” Under the permanent ownership of the United States. It was so amazing that he succeeded in controlling attention, at home and abroad, for several days instead, and the base has become in less than three weeks since Trump’s return to the White House, a few hours away before it took some new shock in its place.

The initial reaction within the United States confirms how the American political classes, and what is going through the opposition, has left a drunk drug due to the speed of events since January 20 (not only that window was opened, but also broke the glass, expelled the frame and took out the wall that was It is used.

So the local criticism of the Gaza’s plan, Trump, focused to a large extent on its proposal that the American forces are deployed on the ground in Gaza to impose US ownership. Bad idea, he said Democrats and Republican Senator Lindsay GrahamThis would put the Americans in the path of harm, smart from the 241 American Marines who were sent to Beirut by Ronald Reagan, just to kill them in 1983 by the Hezbollah bomb.

Ram Emmanuel, who held the position of Chief of Staff of the White House in Barack Obama, Tell me this week The seizure of the United States is the repetition of both the disaster Beirut and the “arrogance” of Iraq in 2003, “the worst foreign policy error ever in the history of the United States.” In fact, “Iraq and Lebanon will be on doping.” Trump was supposed to aim to get Americans out of the Middle East wars, not to drown them in the oldest and most bitterness.

Others have made a mistake in his timing. Just as negotiations were supposed to start in the second stage of the fragile ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, the US president did not destroy this process. Israeli families awaiting their loved ones who have been detained in Gaza for nearly 500 days are now afraid that Hamas has lost all incentives to continue the hostage or monitor the ceasefire. Why do they abide by a mediation deal by the United States, whose final plan is to empty Gaza from its residents and turn it into a beach resort to the United States?

A lot of familiar advice now gives it that it is not wise to take Trump literally. This, as they hope, is nothing more than a classic tactic to negotiate Trump. You threaten the other side with a terrible fate that they stipulate happily the most humble demand that was your real goal. So Canada threatens to guarantee as a 51st country, or a 25 % tariff, then get commercial or border concessions it really wants.

In this case, logic runs, Trump announces the United States’ acquisition of Gaza, and thus pushes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to conclude a deal with Israel on conditions, which he could have previously rejected – from a Palestinian state, for example – only to avoid this nightmare as a possibility, giving Trump is the diplomatic penetration award. Trump has a shape in this field. Remember how he pressed the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and others to agree to the so -called Ibrahim agreements with Israel in 2020 by threatening that the alternative would be the approval of the United States on the Israeli guerrilla of the West Bank (threat, by the way, it seems that Trump is specific to revive, the hint this week is that it is He will announce His view of the future of the West Bank The following month).

All these analyzes and criticism have their advantages, but they miss the big ugly point. In rushing to evaluate the effect, they exceed the big error. This is not just a suggestion of another foreign policy. This is an American president who calls on his country to steal another person 6000 miles by ethnic cleansing, and to do so for a profitable real estate opportunity.

Such a move would leave international law in war, with the jungle law only in place. This possibility is Trump, which is why he declared penalties for the International Criminal Court on Thursday. Enjoy a world that may be right, because the United States may be.

But Trump’s plan is not just illegal. Trump gave legitimacy to the dreams of Christian fever forever in the maximum Israeli leaders, and the likes of the random and fanatic of the ITAMAR BEN-GVir and the Becaell Smotrich, who oppose the ceasefire with Hamas because they want to rebuild the Jewish settlements in Gaza in a gas of the sacred destiny. Moreover, there is an additional hatred in Trump’s vision and equipment looking for a plot of land belonging to the Palestinians, and this must be an integral part of the future of Palestine, independent, because it has the possibility of investment.

Listen to David Friedman, Trump’s ambassador to Israel during his first term, who was asked about who will live in Gaza after the completion of the 15 -year -old reconstruction. He said it will be a “market -dependent process.” New York Times. He added: “I know that I look like I am a real estate man,” but only imagine the possibilities of “25 miles from the beach of the sea confronting the sunset.”

Trump said he had to empty Gaza from his people because the tape became inhabitant. No one can live there until it was settled and rebuilt. He was “Hell”, “demolition site”Every flat or at risk of collapse. Benjamin Netanyahu, the same Netanyahu, who insisted for 15 months, sat next to him that his bombing in Gaza was targeted and distinguished.

Looking at both of them was the picture, which Trump regained to the oval office, for one of his favorite predecessors, Andrew JacksonThe man who signed the Indian Law of 1830, an ethnic cleansing action that expelled tens of thousands of indigenous Americans from the homelands of their ancestors and left thousands of dead.

Trump says that the Palestinians in Gaza will be pleased with the possibility of “moving” to another country, and perhaps some, driven by despair from Israeli air strikes and nearly two decades of oppression of Hamas, will take the opportunity to go out. But many will not do that. They have a link to the land that will not be purchased with the promise of the apartment far.

And you know who should understand it better than most? Jews. They were also offered to various alternatives per day, from Uganda to Madagascar to Alaska to a corner of RussiaBut none of them has never acquired a serious force, because there was only one place that the Jews considered the homeland of their ancestors. It is the same piece of the small land that the Palestinians see exactly the same way. This is the tragedy of each of the people.

Each of them imagines the land free from the other, so that they can get all of this for themselves, from the river to the sea. But these are dangerous fantasies, and the President of the United States has no work that feeds it. Instead, both peoples are fateful to share that land, in one way or another. Even the most powerful man in the world cannot wish them away.

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