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OPINIONS

Sun 09 Feb 2025 8:32 am - Jerusalem Time

The broker president..!

In his book, The Art of the Deal, American real estate broker and trader Donald Trump gives us advice on taking advantage of opportunities, emphasizing the “importance of exploiting difficult times,” such as economic recessions, to seize distressed assets and revive them and make a profit from them later. Trump believes that “an unstable market presents unique opportunities.”

So for the broker President Trump, the massacre and destruction of Gaza is an opportunity that may not be repeated. And if it is seized according to his art, profits will be reaped from it. He does not know that Gaza is a homeland before it is a property or a commodity in the slave market.


Thus, the broker Trump refuted what President Trump announced that he wanted to end the wars that broke out during the era of his flabby predecessor, Joe Biden. But he forgot to say that the wars that bring huge profits and money to his holster after the sword is taken away from him will not stop, regardless of the lives they reap and the destruction they sow.


This is how President Trump fell into the evil thoughts of the broker Trump.


Trump's idea was born in Israel and is being promoted by Trump the broker. According to the parliamentary political editor of the Israeli radio, Ze'ev Kam, in the morning bulletin of February 6, 2025, it has been discussed in the cabinet for months and ministers Ben Gvir, Katz and Dermer were tasked with developing it and pushing for a plan to implement it. Israeli political history books tell us that it is an old Zionist dream whose roots go back to the term of the second Israeli prime minister, Levi Eshkol, before the June 1967 war. It came against the backdrop of the activity of Palestinian guerrillas in Gaza after the Nakba, specifically after the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956. Shimon Peres, the Minister of Post in the June 1967 war, was one of the most enthusiastic supporters of it and of settlement in the Egyptian Sinai and the Gaza Strip. He is the one who established the "Ariel" settlement in the heart of the West Bank. Golda Meir, the third prime minister of Israel, dreamed of it in 1970 when the war broke out between 1968-1970 between the resistance in Gaza and the occupation forces led by Ariel Sharon, the commander of the southern brigade in the Israeli army at the time. A government plan drawn up by the Ministry of Intelligence Affairs led by Gila Gamliel at the beginning of this war came back to haunt her, and it suffered a disastrous failure like its predecessors, thanks to the patience and steadfastness of the people of Gaza and their resistance, and a strict Egyptian decision to close the border with the Strip.


Now comes the broker Trump to revive the bones from the dust, so why will Trump succeed where all his teachers from the leaders of the Zionist movement and its pillars failed? It is true that launching the idea of displacing the people of Gaza made him the "HaMashiach" the Messiah in the eyes of the Kahanists/Kahaneists led by Smotrich and Ben Gvir and behind them Netanyahu and all his gang, but he must benefit from the political path of those who preceded him in it, specifically Shimon Peres, who became one of the most ardent advocates of peace and seekers of it with the Palestinians. It is no wonder then that Smotrich rushed to comment on Trump's idea of displacing the people of Gaza by saying: "We have buried the idea of a Palestinian state forever," and Ben Gvir's trumpet returns to "water" in order to return to the ministerial chair and implement the project of his master Rabbi Kahane regarding the transfer of the Palestinians. He reveals that the plan is ready and awaiting implementation and declares publicly that "Netanyahu no longer has an excuse to evade."


So Trump, like any real estate broker and not like the leader of a superpower aspiring to lead the world, is nothing more than a promoter of an old-new right-wing Zionist dream. And so he turned his cheek and his soul up and walked around swaggering, belittling his position and returning to his old advice in his book “The Art of the Deal.”


President Trump, like any broker, depends on the client’s compliance in marketing his new deal, and whether he is a “shy” who buys and loses, so that Trump seizes the opportunity and gains his share of it for the benefit of the Israeli contractor, whose leader Netanyahu said the day after Trump’s call to displace the people of Gaza in an interview with Fox News that it is “an excellent idea and must be developed and ensured to be implemented.” True, in his view, it strengthens the survival of his extremist combination and keeps him as Prime Minister of Israel, and implementing it, if it is done, will bring him “absolute victory” and achieve a strategic goal that his predecessors failed to achieve, ignoring that he is doomed to fail in order to catch up with his predecessors.


Thus, between the broker Trump and the contractor Netanyahu, they are trying to hide the bloody crime that ravaged the Gaza Strip and its people with the crime of displacing those who remained alive. In doing so, Trump also revealed, whether he knew it or not, the hidden goal behind this war, including what preceded it and the dangerous repercussions that may follow it on the Palestinian cause, which they want to liquidate rather than reach a just solution that ends the conflict. However, they must learn from the political career of Shimon Peres, who was one of its most enthusiastic and promoters, until he ended up realizing the reality and that the solution is political before it is through bullying and force. Perhaps Trump, the "two-deal", and like any real estate broker this time, hopes that the Palestinians and Arabs will accept Trump's deal of the century from his first term, in which he authorized Israel to annex parts of the West Bank, on the basis that it is considered by his Arab followers to be less harmful compared to his second term deal, which is to start displacing the people of Gaza. In any case, Trump put forward a hellish idea, but he did not put forward a plan. It is the fantasy of a broker who does not understand reality, who has no value for the homeland, and whose calculations are all financial. In his eyes, everything is a commodity that can be bought and sold.


Just as the dreams of those who came before him were shattered, his illusions this time will be “on the ground,” for it is above all a crime against humanity, and a violation of all international laws, regulations, and legislation. If he is aware of that, then this is a crime, and if he is not aware, and he is the president of the most powerful country in the world, then the crime is greater.


So let President Trump get off his mule, for his merchandise is old and rusty, and let him think, as the president of a great country and a world leader, about what benefits people and humanity and achieves justice, instead of entrenching injustice and plunging the world into bloody, hateful labyrinths that prolong the life of the conflict so that blood continues to be washed with blood.

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