In danger of Trump, Gaza and Israel blank checks

On Monday, Donald Trump sat with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on one of his two Trump-branded golf courses in Scotland and said that a fact should be painfully obvious to a fanatical cable watchman like him: It was a pain in Gaza’s “real hunger” The ongoing war in Israel Oppose Hamas. “These kids look hungry according to the TV,” he said on the way to the press conference. He promised to work with European allies to resolve the crisis, and mentioned some information about the “food center.” This is portrayed as a direct condemnation of his close allies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier claimed The evidence is damnSince the terrorist attack on Hamas on October 7, 2023, there has been no “hunger” in the battle, and to a large extent, the battle has not been interrupted. When asked about Steamer’s decision to join France to recognize Palestine as an independent country, Trump all gave him the famous Trump Trumpian a thumbs up signing. “I won’t hold a position,” the president told reporters. “I don’t mind him holding a position.”

But by Thursday, Trump reprised a familiar role—not only defending Israel, but also explicitly linking his economic policies to continue supporting it. “Wow!” Trump posted on his social media website: “Canada has just announced that it is the Palestine regime. It will make it difficult for us to make a deal with them. Oh, ‘Canada!!! In the days that followed, Trump sent his all-round envoy, Steve Witkoff, to send Israel a new round of sanctions against Palestinian authorities and let people know that recognizing that Palestine is equivalent to giving Hamas a victory. A simple but inadequate explanation for the wild reversal is that it is just Trump, a creature of the news cycle, whose focus is a horrible photo radiating from the war zone in Monday’s war zone, but a few days later, when he felt the opening in a tough negotiation, his opportunistic cynicism led him to take a completely different stance.

However, casting it as a flip off of the famous flopper, I was a little shocked. Trump’s overheating commitment to Israel –Just like his promise After returning to the presidency, rapid change actions against Ukraine have been colliding with more complex reality for months. It turns out that the war didn’t end magically because Trump clicked on his heels and asked them to do so. In February, Trump announced that the United States would take over Gaza, “arrange it”, replace its 2 million Palestinian residents, and build a new “Middle East Riviera” there (there) –A fantastic vision A few weeks later, he then shared an AI-generated video “Trump Gaza” that glitters along the dazzling Mediterranean coastline of the territory, golden Trump-shaped balloons and images of the President and Netanyahu sipping cocktails on the beach.

I mention this embarrassment because Trump himself almost stops doing it. (On Tuesday, when Trump flew around Scotland, a reporter in the Air Force asked the Gavans to be moved out of Gaza; Trump still insisted that “you can do something spectacular there”, despite his permission “that’s a person who falls in love with some people, some who fall in love with someone, and some of them certainly don’t want to. Over the past decade, they have done what they have learned, doing well: humor him, pretend to take him seriously, and distract him. In February, Netanyahu stood next to Trump and announced the idea that his Gaza Riviera plan “has valuable” that “has a change of history.” What’s more problematic is that some more extreme numbers in Netanyahu’s cabinet have seized Trump’s words, a plan for his own to reduce Gaza and reoccupation of the territory. “They think Trump has granted them their permission,” U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro told me Thursday during Barack Obama’s presidency. In March, Netanyahu ended a ceasefire with Hamas, and the United States promoted it in January with more or less full acquiescence from Trump. Israel’s full-scale war resumed blockade The foundation is laid for the horrific image of hungry children we see now in the much-needed food aid and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

The photos have triggered a political fight back from Israel, not only among the Democrats in Washington, twenty-seven Democratic senators (most of their caucus) failed to successfully vote on Wednesday night to stop new military aid to Israel, but also increasingly voted Magazine Republican coalition. publication Jewish insider Known as “Double Lilac”, signs of discord within the Republican Party include Tucker Carlson investing time in his performance to discuss Israeli war crimes and passion Magazine Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman from Georgia, became the first House Republican to blame Israel Conviction of “genocide”. Overall, a new one Gallup poll Publications this week show that only one-third of Americans (a new low) support Israeli military operations in Gaza. But support for war among Republicans remains stronger, a reminder of Trump’s plight here – the photos on TV are devastating, but he can’t just get rid of his firm support for Israel, which has become the core ideological pillar of his party in recent years.

Yet, there is no doubt about the actions of those Republicans now against Israel, to what extent Trump has exacerbated ground conditions for Gaza civilians. For those who still support Israel’s left and right, new fears have come out of the way – Trump’s blank check for Netanyahu is probably the worst thing for Israel. Shapiro told me: “He has a great responsibility for where we are, including the negative impact on Israel in terms of the current pressure and the current lasting reputational damage.”

As Shapiro observed, Israel’s wars over the past few decades (and many) tend to end, only when the “outer ramps of American spell casting” were put together. It has become the essence of political dynamics between the United States and its allies, “The Israeli Prime Minister must look as if he was forced to do so by the United States. It is almost built into DNA.” However, there are few signs that Trump is ready to do any coercion even this week’s critical words about the Gaza famine.

question, Aaron David Millera vegetable Middle East peace negotiator, who served under six US Secretary of State, told me, is not that Trump won’t confront Netanyahu but that he is too often mistaken for an idealistic supporter of Israel rather than a pragmatic “situationalist,” one whose “gut” and “instincts lend him to a view of enabling and acquiescing in what Netanyahu is doing.” As Trump said on Thursday, this is to “get the job done” for Israel in some way. Where is that? Just a few months ago, when faced with Hamas’ stubbornness, it remembers Trump’s advice to Israel: “Let all hell explode.”

But given that the reality of the war has been going on for nearly two years, neither the full-strength victory nor the full-scale deal seems to be reality. At present, one possible scenario is that Trump and Witkov will find a way to cut the new interim agreement so that more humanitarian aid can be passed, perhaps forcing Hamas to release more remaining hostages. “In administration, we say there are three options for memorandum – breaking, collapse and chaos, Donald Trump chose the chaotic choice in Gaza,” Miller said. “Worth the Nobel Prize, not.

In the horrific summer of Gaza, it’s hard to recall the unfulfilled promises of last winter, when Trump boasted about the “epic” ceasefire of his and his team helping the agent in a near-world history. Now, with Trump next to him, there is nothing at all, what can we do, just hope he does it right at once? ♦