Trump’s options in Palestine; will the Zionists’ dream come true?

reportMehr News Agency, “David Hurst”, a prominent English writer and editor of the Middle East Eye website in London, in his new article examines the impact of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election on the Palestinian situation. Payment, which is the content of this article as follows:

Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, does not have two more options in the face of the current situation of the war in Gaza: the elimination of Palestine or the cessation of the war.

Catastrophic times for Palestinians

Those who are familiar with Trump’s policies believe that his second term as president will be disastrous for the Palestinians; Because Trump was the first person who took a serious action to destroy the Palestinian issue and did the most damage to the Palestinian struggle, especially by supporting agreements to normalize relations between Arab countries and Israel. These agreements were actually concrete on the grave of the Palestinian cause and building a highway for trade and contracts with the Arab countries of the region.

The first term of Donald Trump’s presidency coincided with the far-right government in Israel. During the era of Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Washington started a plan to expand settlements in the Palestinian lands, and as a result, Trump, in his first term as president of the United States, announced that he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem took a big step towards the destruction of the Palestinian cause.

Trump also closed the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington and allowed Tel Aviv to annex the Golan Heights to its occupied territories. He pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran and assassinated General Qassem Soleimani, a prominent military figure in the region. Therefore, it can be said with certainty that Trump caused the greatest damage to the Palestinian cause.

On October 6, 2023, one day before the attack of Hamas under the title of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, the Palestinian cause was being destroyed and it seemed that the Palestinian struggle to reach The right to freedom and self-determination has been fruitless in the shadow of Arab countries’ inaction. Also, all preparations were made for signing the normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Tel Aviv.

Crazy policies in support of the Zionists

For this reason, many believe that the second term of Trump’s presidency in America will be much worse for the Palestinians than the first term; Because unlike in the first term, the Republican Party is expected to control both houses of the US Congress, and therefore there will be no sane person in Congress to rein in Trump’s crazy policies. David Friedman, an eminent American theorist and author, in a book titled “A Jewish State; The last and best hope to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, argues that the United States has a sacred duty to support the annexation of the West Bank to Israel, and that the Palestinians can be free as long as their laws do not conflict with Israel’s laws.

The reality is that all of this can happen and we should certainly expect it. But the expansion of settlements in the Palestinian lands during the Trump era will destroy any chance for Israel to win as an occupying party that implements the policy of apartheid and seeks to occupy all Palestinian territories from the river to the sea.

How will the Zionist dream be destroyed by Trump?

Before we start talking about the consequences of Trump’s victory on the Palestinian situation, we need to mention two points. The first point is that if Trump wants to allow Benjamin Netanyahu to achieve all his goals in the war under the title of “total victory”, the Zionist dream of forming a liberal and democratic Jewish government will be destroyed forever.

The liberal version of the Jewish state was the main tool for the development of Israel, but with the destruction of this version, the liberal leaf of the Zionist project was destroyed, and terrorists like Itmar Ben Geuer , became the symbol that they want to raze Al-Aqsa Mosque to the ground.

But the second point is that the new generation of Palestinians came to the conclusion after the Oslo agreement that all political and civilian solutions to end the occupation in Palestine were closed and There is no longer any meaning for the recognition of Israel and there is no negotiation and compromise. After the series of fruitless agreements that the Palestinians had with Israel, the Palestinian people came to the conclusion that the dialogue with Israel has become a meaningless and repetitive scenario and has no benefit.

Palestinian people determine the fate of war

After the attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, it became impossible to ignore the Palestinian issue and all the world’s attention was directed towards the humanitarian issues in Palestine; An issue that Joe Biden was unable to understand and as a Zionist allowed Netanyahu to humiliate him, so that Netanyahu crossed all the red lines drawn by Biden and ignored them.

Biden asked Netanyahu not to enter Rafah and allow humanitarian aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip, but he paid no heed to these demands. Netanyahu also ignored Biden’s request not to expand the war in Lebanon, and in this way, Biden was recognized as a weak American leader who allowed the genocide of a significant number of civilians.

Itmar Ben Goyer, the fascist Minister of Internal Security of Netanyahu’s cabinet, in response to Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, welcomed this and said that now is the time for governance and victory. It is complete. Also, Netanyahu used the opportunity of Trump’s victory to clean his stable and dismiss the former Minister of War Yoaf Gallant.

Trump therefore has two clear paths when he takes office in the White House in January, assuming that Biden continues to fail to broker a cease-fire in Gaza. Trump can continue this war or stop it. But both paths are full of traps.

Allowing Netanyahu and his far-right coalition to annex the West Bank would mean ethnically cleansing two-thirds of its population, most of whom would be forced to flee to Jordan. Deporting all residents of the Gaza Strip and clearing South Lebanon of its residents are other goals of Trump, who wants to present them to Netanyahu.

However, during the one-year war in Gaza, it has been proven that the decision of the fate of this war is not in the hands of the extreme right leaders of Israel or Washington; Rather, it is in the hands of the Palestinian people and the nations of the region, and no one in America can ignore the votes of the Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.

Trump, with the great help of Netanyahu, practically destroyed the 76-year-old dream of the Zionists for a “Jewish liberal democratic state” and in his second term, nothing but hastening the end Zionist occupation will not do in Palestine.