OPINIONS
Mon 18 Nov 2024 9:43 am - Jerusalem Time
Let's drop the illusions about Trump and prepare for the worst
They say he is a merchant who loves deals and hates wars, they say he is unpredictable, and that he will be free from Zionist pressures and that this may make it easy for him to impose a settlement on everyone, they say he is narcissistic, nervous and aggressive, and thus he will make his own glory in his own way, and they also added that he won the votes of the Arabs and Muslims and that therefore he will flatter them in one way or another, and they also said that he is returning again with more experience and deeper experience, and these people may have some excuse or some understanding, as weakness, helplessness and frailty have reached the point that we wait for solutions from the maker of crises, and that we hope for help from our enemies and the friends of our enemies, so the President of the United States of America has become like someone who comes with a mountain of food and a mountain of fire, with reward and torment in his hands, such that hearts and eyes are attached to him, hoping for his sympathy and avoiding his anger, so that the Arab broadcaster asked him about his half-Arab grandson, and the man sympathized and said that the Arabs are smart... Thanks be to God Almighty, as this description destroys more than 70 years of insistence by Hollywood studios that the Arabs are stupid and do not deserve the oil they have And suction.
Trump is a true merchant, surprising, narcissistic, and transcending the official establishment, trying to provide a new content for the administration, society, and the new role of the United States. He is working for a new, violent, aggressive, more precise, selfish, and isolated imperialism, reshaping itself to minimize losses to a great extent, an imperialism that seeks to regain power and influence through containment operations, common interests, and profitable deals.
An imperialism that is proactive, rapid, and decisive - but aggressive to the extreme of aggression - an imperialism of corporations, banks, and high technology, which does not recognize much of national and cultural particularities and dreams, and therefore it is an imperialism in which the financial elites are allied with the political elites who see the world as a mere golf course on which they can move as they please, unhindered by borders, groups, or laws.
In this sense, Trump surrounds himself with figures who reflect all of this and more, figures who claim religious purity and divine zeal and that they are messengers from heaven, on whose shoulders lies the fulfillment of prophecies and the embodiment of all good tidings. Figures who have no experience except that they love Israel and that Israel loves them, and that they are extremists in their love for it and are prepared to do anything for it, and that they are enemies of the Palestinian people and their rights, history, existence and struggle, and in doing so they are against international law and against everything issued by international bodies regarding this conflict, and they are against all initiatives and proposals, even those launched by former American presidents, and they are against the global popular mood, against reality, against history and even against the religion in which they claim to believe.
This extremism that Trump is bringing through his second new administration is very dangerous, not only for us, but even for the Israelis and their entity, as one of their writers said.
The extremism that is evident in these appointments and in this administration shows us that Trump is returning to the White House once again, more clearly hostile to the Palestinian people, and more biased towards the Zionist messianic vision. This is why the settlers and some Israeli politicians celebrated Trump’s victory, and began to speak openly about annexing the West Bank to Israeli sovereignty.
The new appointments reflect that Trump is coming to give Israel everything it has seemingly dreamed of. So why do we expect a man in his seventies like him to change?! Why do we expect him to change when he comes from an extremist Evangelical background, and he represents extremist religious, ethnic and class groups? Why do we expect him to change when he is funded by extremely influential Zionist Jewish lobbies?! Why do we expect him to change without there being anyone pressuring him from Arabs and Muslims?!
There is no need for illusions about this president. It is better and more appropriate for us to prepare from now to deal with what this administration may carry of old and new plans, the most dangerous of which is the annexation of the occupied West Bank, the overthrow of the settlement solution, the marginalization of the Palestinian National Authority, and the demographic and political dismantling of the Palestinian people.
Trump comes surrounded by people who do not see us or recognize us, and if we do not prepare for such people, the worst is yet to come, and there is no power or strength except with God.
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