There was speculation ahead of President Donald Trump’s meeting today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two leaders might find themselves at odds over the Gaza ceasefire deal spearheaded by the administration. Instead, Trump doubled down on his proposal to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and relocate Palestinians to neighbouring Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan. Incredibly, he then suggested that the US should take over Gaza.
Trump’s remarks would seem to be at odds with his administration’s goal of expanding the Abraham Accords to include an Israeli-Saudi normalisation deal. In the wake of Israel’s response to the 7 October attacks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced that diplomatic relations with Israel would be dependent on Israel paving the path for a Palestinian state. Considering that Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League released a joint statement rebuking Trump’s suggestion, the goal of an Israeli-Saudi accord now looks like a pipe dream.
Nor is it likely that the Trump administration will shy away from its position. Some of the President’s first appointments have voiced support for Israeli annexation of the West Bank, including Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Ambassador to the UN Elise Stefanik. Meanwhile, Trump’s national security advisor Michael Waltz went further, stating that Palestinian resettlement would take 10-15 years. None of this bodes well for Israel’s normalisation with the Arab world.
Trump also signed an executive order reimposing his first administration’s hawkish “maximum pressure” sanctions policy towards Iran. Yet at the same time, he signalled a willingness to talk with Tehran, saying his main objection is to Iranian nuclear weapons and that he is “unhappy” to impose new sanctions. When asked by reporters during his press conference whether the United States would support Israeli strikes against Iran, Trump said “we’ll see what happens.”
A generous reading of the President’s seemingly contradictory positions might be that this is classic Trump: keeping options open and maximising leverage while seeking to cut a deal. There was no sign, however, that Trump was willing to apply similar pressure on Netanyahu to move forward with Phase II of the ceasefire deal. The terms of Phase II would have Hamas release the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza — terms which far-Right members of Netanyahu’s cabinet openly oppose, risking the collapse of Netanyahu’s government.
Trump’s comments also reveal no willingness to deal even-handedly with the Palestinians. Indeed, it’s a foreboding sign that the first foreign leader to visit Trump in his second term currently has a warrant out for his arrest from the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
The events of the day gave a different impression of the incoming administration, one that looked an awful lot like the first Trump term’s Middle East policy. In essence, it’s shaping up to be a traditional hardline approach towards Iran while providing unconditional support for Israel. Yet it’s unclear who is pushing for such a policy. As Trump said while signing the “maximum pressure” executive order today, “so this is one I’m torn about… Everyone wants me to sign it. I’ll do that.”
That means that the risk of US entanglement in the region is likely to continue (which will definitely be the case if American troops are stationed in Gaza). Not only does this threaten to draw the US into a conflict with Iran, it continues to endanger US troops in the region. If Trump were serious about “America First,” he’d strike a harder bargain not only with Iran, but with Israel as well.
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SubscribeA majority of Americans support Israel and support continued aid to Israel.
When the author states, “it’s a foreboding sign that the first foreign leader to visit Trump in his second term currently has a warrant out for his arrest from the International Criminal Court for war crimes,” it is clear where his sympathies are and they are not with a majority of Americans.
What’s next? We’ll see.
Ya. That was a red flag for me as well.
We should perhaps be grateful for the clear signal that the author regards the the ICC as something other than a propaganda outfit pandering to those who throw their toys out of the pram at the spectacle of the Jewish state defending itself robustly against those devoted to carrying out another Jewish genocide. Not all commentators are so ingenuous.
Absolutely laughable.
Me too.
A majority no longer support unconditional aid.
As far as I can tell, no-one wants Trump to take over Gaza. Egypt, Jordan, Palestinians, Americans, Europeans, even Israel would not want this. However, by making the statement, Trump has just put the absolute worst offer on the table for all involved, removing the default position of a continuing bitter status quo as an option. Palestinians and Israelis, with the support of the Arab nations have to reach a better deal to avoid Trumpian madness.
Is Trump crazy enough to follow through? Everyone believes so (being seen as crazy has it’s own leverage by creating uncertainty and hiding your real objectives). Is it possible that it will work and break the logjam between the Israelis and Palestinians, both of whom need better deal than the one Trump has tabled? Who knows? Let’s see how the gambit plays out.
An observation is that Trump has a long history of making these type of mad plays, and yet opponents always take them at face-value getting super-shocked at his ‘stupidity’ (like children shouting “he’s behind you” at a pantomime). Then what happens…?
Donald Trump is a gifted negotiator, so maybe there’s method in his madness. But I think it’s just madness.
Donald Trump’s vision of Gaza turned into a vibrant American territory is like Elon Musk’s pipe dream of men living on Mars. After a while that hallucinating just gets tiresome.
So the author wants the US to be as even-handed as the ICC – which equally indicted Israel’s and Hamas’s leaders …
I guess that this begs the question whether even-handedness between a democracy (flawed, as they all are) and a declared terrorist army is what will bring peace to the Middle East – or whether the author is just disappointed that the US doesn’t join the mob that hounds Israel.
Regarding the idea to “displace” the Gazans: why is it that everybody assumes that this could only be done forcibly, that the Gazans want nothing more than to stay forever in Gaza’s ruins? Why doesn’t anybody stop and think why it is that the first thing the Egyptians did after October 7 is to build a second, higher barrier between Gaza and the Sinai, behind the first one? Clue: it was not to prevent people from entering Gaza …
No, it is pretty clear that given the chance, many – albeit certainly not all – Gazans would leave Gaza in the blink of an eye. But nobody that opposes Trump’s proposal (let’s not call it a plan yet) cares about the actual people of Gaza. For all those that pontificate about ethnic cleansing, Gazans are just a tool, to be used as a thorn in Israel’s side, nothing more.
I don’t get why people find it so hard to understand Trump’s strategy. It’s really very straightforward – threaten or offer something that is absolutely unconscionable, and which could not possibly be acceptable in order to force people to negotiate in good faith.
Great example here. The offer is awful – that’s the whole point. So Hamas, if you don’t want your people to be kicked off your land, you’d best make a deal with the Israelis, and the rest of you (Egypt, Saudi etc), if you want to avoid a load of Palestinian nightmares arriving to live on your soil, you’d best pressure Hamas into doing a deal. Part of that pressure might be to reenact the Abraham Accords and formally partner with Israel.
I’ll let you into a secret – he’s not trying to take over the Gaza Strip.
Likewise, in case you’ve not caught on, he’s not trying to annex Greenland, but he does want to make damn sure that the strategic advantages of Greenland aren’t just sold to China or Russia or handed over by the backdoor. Same with the Panama Canal. Call it crude, but the threats are finally forcing supposed allies to take their responsibilities seriously.
And on that subject, he’s currently got a load of Mexican and Canadian people “working” on the border, but in reality they’re doing **** all and just allowing people, drugs, whatever to pour across. Suddenly, once 25% tariffs are threatened, Canada and Mexico become interested in their own people actually doing their jobs. The fact that there won’t be any more people there is scarcely relevant, better to have 10k doing their job than 15k doing **** all. We’ve got a similar situation in France – plenty of French policing the border, and we’re paying them handsomely for this, but in reality they’re doing nothing to stop the flow across the channel – I’m sure if we threatened a 25% tariff on all French wine and cheese then Macron would become very keen to make the border guys do their jobs.
What he doesn’t want to do is to put tariffs on Canada and Mexico (though he does on China).
But that’s what really gets me – there are some really intelligent people out there. We’ve got one on this board, so intelligent that they don’t need to use capital letters when spelling their name. So why can’t these really intelligent folk see through Trump’s strategy, when it’s plainly obvious to thickos like me?
Exactly! This is *The Boy Who Cried Wolf*—except now the countries (the sheep) are diversifying their economies and will never trust the U.S. again, regardless of any change in administration. But in this particular case, Trump is rattling the very foundation of the dollar’s strength—the petrodollar. If Saudis and Iran cooperate, the game is over, just like the U.S. has been determined to ensure that China and Russia never align.
The reason I bring Saudis (I think strategic first lol) is because the issue is now right at their doorstep—Syria is in disarray, Jordan is on high alert, Egypt is uncertain, and Lebanon has been abandoned. It’s like lighting a small flame at their front door. While they made a deal with the U.S., using the petrodollar to create a sense of security, that safety is an illusion if there’s a crisis unfolding right next to them. The fire is simply too close to home for them to ignore.
This idea Saudis and Israel normalization is soothing for the public. They are normal already! You can eat kosher in Riyardh.
But thinking strategically, it is critical time for Saudis and Iran – just like Russia and China for how long?
Protecting the birthplace of Jesus—and hence Western civilization—from Islamist takeover aligns with an America First policy.
What about protecting them from Kahanist takeover?
The area was under Islamic control for centuries under the Ottomans, and was much more peaceful than it is now
Jared Kushner first proposed this solution some years ago. I presume therefore that it has the backing of the wider Trump family, so it should go ahead. “Them” , the Palestinians, as in “clean them out” will have no say nor will the Arab kingdoms and states in the region. The latter rely on Trump for their existence and their very lives. Israel will go along for secure borders and to service the hotels, cruise liners and resorts in New Gaza. The only one who might object is that pesky Allah, via Mohamed and his followers. It will be interesting if nothing else.
Maybe 2.3m Palestinians, or however many are left alive, might object?
The best way to excite the Saudi Royal Family about anything is to offer them a slice of real estate. Handing over large parts of London and the British economy has kept the Saudis sweet for 50 years. Turn Gaza into real estate with potential and offer it up to the Saudis and they’ll do a deal with Israel. A profitable Palestinian state in name only would be of interest to many a wealthy Middle Eastern family. However, it is another miserable sign Europe is fast in decline when it is not even a consideration in strategic developments along the shores of Mare Nostrum, “our sea”, the Mediterranean sea.
Any redevelopment in Gaza will Bear the name Trump.
This is probably Trump saying something crazy to get agreement to something much less radical. If it’s actually something being genuinely considered, well lots of luck
No one is seriously considering this. It’s not some pleasant pipe dream, it’s a bad trip on LSD.
Is Gaza the Palestinian’s homeland?
Part of it
Ah, now we get to the heart of it.
Many have learned the hard way: never, ever, bet against Donald J Trump.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
The ridiculous old blowhard has already walked back from his chest beating bullsh*t. ‘We will own Gaza’. Ha ha ha ha ha…lasted all of half a news cycle. Woo woo, what a tough guy.
Seriously, when a bully keeps making big threats that he never delivers on – because he can’t – he quickly ceases to be a bully, and becomes an embarrassment.
Too too funny.
You watch: America will as usual run away, and Israel, as usual, will cop the blow back for its fairweather ‘ally’s’ faraway boastful tyre-kicking and delusions.
MAGA America is no friend of Israel, people. Not in the strategic long run.
There is a long-standing American Tradition of massive numbers of post-war US Troops in South Korea, Japan, Germany, Iraq, and so forth. Why would a counterfeit, post-war “state” like Palestine be any different? Rafah is a smoldering charcoal briquette. The Vision of Gaza as a civilian-led, terrorist-free client state on the stunning Mediterranean Coast is legitimate and quite appetizing.
“In America, impossible is what we do best.” — Donald J. Trump.
The caption for that photo above should read:
Scorpion: Come on, give me a ride on your back across the Jordan.
Frog: But you’re a scorpion – you’ll sting me and I’ll die!
Scorpion: But if you die, I’ll drown! We need to trust each other!
Frog: W-e-l-l…
The problem is…I can’t figure out who is who.
If this all wasn’t so guaranteed to end with genuine existential catastrophe for Israel it would, indeed, be blackly hilarous.
The most dangerous anti-semites are, as ever, the creepier Philosemitic ones – especially the ‘Christian Zionist’ kind (a perverse oxymoron if ever there was one). While the best allies Israel has are those who aren’t intimidated into ar*e-licking condescension and ‘Star of David/I Stand With’ e-platitudes by the threat of being labelled a Jew-hater.
If ever Israelis needed diaspora Jews all over the world to stop regarding Donald Trump as a trustable ally…it’s now. ‘We will own Gaza‘, FFS. As FP quagmires go, it’d make the entire Vietnam War look like a successful surgical lightning strike. And leave Israel even more f*cked by the time America abandoned it.
What other arguments can you offer besides emotions?
You’re kidding, aren’t you.
The arguments against the forcible relocation of over 2 million Gazans to facilitate a Manhattanite serial bankrupt’s infantile real estate theft… make themselves. You really need me to set out why this is not even a brain fart, El Thicko?
We should start, then, with four generations worth of often-violent stasis and resistance to forced relocation from Gazans themselves; add in the complicating spoiler resistance of vested interest power elites like Hamas and Hezbollah, and their sponsors; add in the resolute refusal of all the Arab states since 1948 to have anything to do with ‘Palestinians’, as such; add in the collective refusal of every member State of the UN to give the ethnic cleansing that this unhinged idea literally and legally represents the time of day; add in the utter refusal of any US Congress or Senate to give it the time of day; add in the very likely US Constitutional illegality of it; add in the sheer democratic horror with which a fundamentally isolationist American electorate already utterly exhausted by foreign policy quagmires would recoil from this, especially Trump’s own MAGA voters, the Don having specifically campaigned on reduced FP stupidity and blood/treasure-squandering (plus, bluntly, the fact that many Trump voters have exactly zero appetite for spilling good ol’ Christian White Boys blood for an ungrateful pack of dirty foreign k*kes); add in the opposition of powerful Israeli lobbies in America, who grasp better than anyone just how fragile the alleged ‘pro Israel’ stance – and how instinctively deep the anti-semitism – of US ‘Christian Zionism’ actually is; add in the resistance of the US military; add in the resistance of the State department; the Treasury; the CIA; the Pentagon; add in the resistance of any allies Trump’s America may still have…for f**k’s sake, why do I have to waste my time spelling this out?
I mean you have got to be kidding me, UnHerders. Right? Pretending to take this mouth-garbage seriously is you just…taking the p*ss, right? F**k me, you must really hate Israel if you are paying lip service to it and them, trying to dupe world Jewry into falling for this patronising crap.
Do you know who ‘might’ support this idea, El Uro? Maybe – and it’s a big ‘maybe’ – a tiny handful of unhinged ‘Greater Israel’ kray-kraze land
settlersthieves. Who – frankly – aren’t really pro-Israel/pro-Jewish types, either. Except in the usual ideological zealot/loony-tuney way that a Kanye West is a ‘Muslim’, or a Mermaids is a ‘pro women advocacy group’. Oh yeah, and Russia and China prolly won’t mind if Trump grounds the American Project once and for all on the mediocre beaches of the Holy Land, either. But that’s about it. Not even the small gangs of political gangsters who hang out with The Donald and Benny, that tacky brace of corrupt and incompetent political grifters, really want anything to do with this seeping sore of a non-starter.Not even Trump and Netanyahu themslves, FFS. They at least are not that stupid.
I mean, really. Spare me. It’s an insult to everything and to everyone. But especially to ordinary Jews – and Arabs, and Christians, and everyone else – living in genuine existential danger, in the democratic, secular, pluralist sovereign nation of Israel. The only response to tyre-kicking horse-sh*ttery like this is to suggest that President Trump shove it up his ar*e and f**k his Presidency to death with it as soon as possible. If infantile trollery of this kind is the best he has left in his threadbare locker just three weeks in to his ‘Great Disruption’…then a merciful early demise and the accelerated elevation of JD Vance is probably America’s only real hope.
Now that…might even be an authentically interesting political disruption. Trump’s shtick, already, is just an old rehashed Sam Kinnison routine. Vaguely amusing the first time around.But just a bunch of shouting and mugging the camera, there-after.
With Elon running a-Musk and looney juiced Bobby Kennedy taking over the country’s health, now Donald Trump drops this fantasy proposal on us for one of the world’s most troubled spots. And to think I voted for the man. As I said yesterday, I’ve jumped off the Trump bandwagon and I want my vote back.
I heard Donald Trump today say that they stopped $100 million dollars in condoms going to Hamas. He’s as bad as Joe Biden!
Elon, RFK Jr etc were all clearly part of his plan. You have nothing to complain about. Personally I am, overall though not sure about Gaza etc, very impressed.
Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy were part of his plan to do what? Elon Musk is like a bull in a china shop, doing damage instead of good. And who knows what Bobby Kennedy is going to do, not even him. He knows nothing about science, he believes in the worst sort of conspiracy theories, and he has zero management experience before taking over an agency with a trillion dollar budget and 80,000 employees. He’ll be in far over his head.
Please tell me what has been very impressive in Donald Trump’s performance so far. I’ve missed it.
Not sure about an ethnic cleansing announced to the worlds media? Hmm, more reflection needed I guess?
This is what’s called bad faith negotiation—throwing out shocking words to provoke people. Once the shock sets in, they say, “Now that you see how bad things can get, let’s talk about the real issue.” But others can take it even further.
These ideas aren’t new. People have often suggested the U.S. should place the United Nations in Palestine to run the region. It’s just a variation of the classic divide-and-conquer strategy: Now it is create chaos, then backpedal when others push even harder.
The Arabs, by the way, have much older civilizations than America and are far more strategic. Think about how China outmaneuvered the U.S. in just 25 years—multiply that by ten. They can play a harder, longer game than Trump administration. Egypt and Jordan, for example, could respond by saying, “We’ll take the West Bank without any conditions.” They could take control, and establish a new Palestinian state without occupation controlling the river. Pushing ideas without considering the consequences is dangerous—they can call his bluff. It’s a gamble.
That’s just one consequence. But there’s an even worse scenario that’s harder to mitigate. The U.S.’s influence in the Middle East, particularly with Saudi Arabia, hinges on the petrodollar. If Saudi Arabia shifts alliances toward Russia and China, they could trigger a financial reset that wouldn’t just hurt the U.S. oil industry in the long term. By lowering oil prices by destabilizing OPEC institutions (a past good faith institutions but now it is all free for all), they could flood the market, making it impossible for U.S. oil to compete. If OPEC collapses and the U.S. loses its dollar dominance, American oil wouldn’t sell globally—it’d be as worthless as a pencil. If US can dismantle its own instuitions, it is showing the world institutions, allies mean nothing anymore in 2025!
Trump is a smart guy—I’m a Trump supporter for isolation and protectionist—but he needs to think more strategically. He’s saying things out of bravado, assuming he holds power like 1970s. But there’s no power without allies—and the G7 is practically dead. The EU is so quiet it’s like no one’s home all of sudden – perhaps their own growing pains!
These people are very strategic; they’re not impulsive like many Americans.
But ultimately, Israel needs to think about 250 years from today!
Bonkers obviously. The forcible movement of c2million people ain’t going to happen and in meantime Trump has further damaged US reputation. It’s foreign policy for simpletons. He’s also just turbo-charged every Islamist across the Globe with this Crusader notion, as that is what it’ll be interpreted as. A strong position on the defence of Israel is correct, but this is infantilism personified. The only fortunate thing is most already appreciate he’s a blow-hard first and foremost and factored that in.
What’s also interesting is he’s ‘unhappy’ to impose more sanctions on Iran. Happy though to impose on his Allies.
Of course like all Trump promises it’s not costed and he’s no chance of getting the Billions needed for his scheme approved by Congress. He’s no more chance of getting the Saudi’s to pay than he did Mexico his Wall.
It’s just further distraction strategy whilst he and his supporters enrichment gathers pace.
How should the plan be described? Orderly and humane?
Plan? I think you’re a bit ahead of the reality there CD.
You could tell from Bibi’s face he was struggling to not burst out laughing. It was the rambling of a very evidently cognitively declining New York real estate fraudster and not a POTUS.
Trump Towers, Trump golf courses and Riviera of the Middle East. Jeez. You can imagine the obsequious fawning the courtiers at the court of Mar-a-Lago will have nodded along to while the Orange One spouted this twaddle. And who will be owning this real estate whilst the Palestinians collect the garbage and sweep the floors? Of course in his Condo mirage he forgets to mention his property and casino businesses filed for bankruptcy several times, his university faced multiple lawsuits for fraud, his foundation was tarnished by scandal and his company was ordered to pay more than $350m in civil fraud trial. It’d be comical if he wasn’t somehow the POTUS.
… none of which will matter if he fixes the borders, ends the fentanyl crisis and the Biden crime wave and creates some wage growth. I think what really terrifies you is the idea that, thanks to democratisation of the media, governments can no longer operate exclusively in the interests of your class. But you’ll have to get used to it. It’s coming here soon as well.
You’ll have noticed he’s all foreign policy – Greenland, Panama, Canada (a few more Mountie’s to the Border comedy) etc and now he’s occupying Gaza and building Condo’s. Which soldiers he sending? USMC up for it? And Condo’s for Palestinians rather than affordable housing for Americans back home? And to quote – ‘…I see a long term ownership position’. He sees the Grift everywhere.
He’s not sorting US healthcare is he.
You were warned
It incredible how the overly emotional blue managerial “elites” and their lackeys are completely obtuse when it comes to DJT’s deal making strategy and tactics. They take him literally but not seriously. Actual critical thinkers take him seriously, but not literally. It boggles the mind that educated, supposedly intelligent people can’t see this. FFS
Elaborate? What strategy do you discern in his ‘US takes control of Gaza’?
Your fear is palpable.
Condo’s ?
Oh dear, another guy with no clue what apostrophes are for.
btw: if you can’t count it it’s ‘fewer’, not ‘less’. If you want anyone to be persuaded by your arguments you need to try to appear educated and intelligent. Missing verbs and random capitalisation are the social media equivalents of green ink.
Just trying to help.
You have to admit Donald Trump has sorted the southern border. Don’t you? And he got a hostage agreement done by the time he took office. He’s not all bluff and bluster.
Well the ‘deal’ involves him limiting the trade in guns where purchased in US and carried across the Border. Heard anything on his plans to deliver his part to cripple the Cartels? Of course not.
It’s all performative.
If Trump is so keen to cleanse the people out of Gaza so that he can own it and develop it as a ‘Riviera’ Mar el Lago, why doesn’t he take them into the USA and give them citizenship?
Famously a welsh rugby journalist once asked Steve Hansen (who had just taken over the welsh national team) at a presser “is that your plan or have you finally completely lost the plot?”. Sounds like a suitable question for Trump at a passer – would anyone dare to ask it?
Alternatively cleanse the West Bank of its 750,000 (?) illegal settlers, which should free up enough homes to start off the resettlement of the Gazans there and create the Palestinian state which should keep most of the stakeholders content. The Israeli settlers can go back to Israel, which presumably will be happy to receive them, and then on to the Gaza strip when Trump has rebuilt it to his luxury standards.
Now that’s a real plan! The valuable real estate is at the seaside, The settlers, who presumably want to farm and develop their own place can have some of the rest. The West Bank, which is much larger than Gaza, will make a fine Palestinian homeland, with the possibility of trade thru Jordan. The Palestinians being who they are, there will be decades of bloodshed but no real existential threat to Israel. The other Arab states can have their own cut of the hotel and resort businesses
This is what’s called bad faith negotiation—throwing out shocking words to provoke people. Once the shock sets in, they say, “Now that you see how bad things can get, let’s talk about the real issue.” But others can take it even further.
These ideas aren’t new. People have often suggested the U.S. should place the United Nations in Palestine to run the region. It’s just a variation of the classic divide-and-conquer strategy: Now it is create chaos, then backpedal when others push even harder.
The Arabs, by the way, have much older civilizations than America and are far more strategic. Think about how China outmaneuvered the U.S. in just 25 years—multiply that by ten. They can play a harder, longer game than Trump administration. Egypt and Jordan, for example, could respond by saying, “We’ll take the West Bank without any conditions.” They could take control, and establish a new Palestinian state without occupation controlling the river. Pushing ideas without considering the consequences is dangerous—they can call his bluff. It’s a gamble.
That’s just one consequence. But there’s an even worse scenario that’s harder to mitigate. The U.S.’s influence in the Middle East, particularly with Saudi Arabia, hinges on the petrodollar. If Saudi Arabia shifts alliances toward Russia and China, they could trigger a financial reset that wouldn’t just hurt the U.S. oil industry in the long term. By lowering oil prices by destabilizing OPEC institutions (a past good faith institutions but now it is all free for all), they could flood the market, making it impossible for U.S. oil to compete. If OPEC collapses and the U.S. loses its dollar dominance, American oil wouldn’t sell globally—it’d be as worthless as a pencil. If US can dismantle its own instuitions, it is showing the world institutions, allies mean nothing anymore in 2025!
Trump is a smart guy—I’m a Trump supporter for isolation and protectionist—but he needs to think more strategically. He’s saying things out of bravado, assuming he holds power like 1970s. But there’s no power without allies—and the G7 is practically dead. The EU is so quiet it’s like no one’s home all of sudden – perhaps their own growing pains!
These people are very strategic; they’re not impulsive like many Americans.
But ultimately, Israel needs to think about 250 years from today!
America should withdraw all support for Israel and fix its own problems. That’s why Americans voted for Trump.
Now they’re finding out who’s really pulling the strings.
The Great Noticing continues…