Trump is Israel's Iron Sword

In this article, we discuss the unlimited American support for the Israeli occupation state, which emerged in its thuggish image that contradicts all legislation, laws and international relations by US President Donald Trump, who is working to please the Zionist lobby at the expense of the just cause of the Palestinian people, which is still between the hammer of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which displaced the Jews to Palestine, and the anvil of Trump's promises in 2025, which is represented by the displacement of the Palestinian people to Arab countries and others. The importance of the article stems from monitoring, following up and analyzing US foreign policy towards the Palestinian people, as we focus on the term of President Trump, who has become the iron sword with which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strikes.

The article sheds light on the policy of both parties (Republican and Democratic) towards the Palestinian issue, which is characterized by complete bias towards Israel, a common feature of all American presidents. The American position on the Palestinian issue is the same as the Israeli position, as the American vision stems from increasing pressure on the Palestinians to accept what Israel proposes. Based on the above, it is necessary to address the role of the Zionist settlement lobby and its influence on making American policy towards the Palestinian issue, which is a major player in shaping American policy. This is evident through the influence and nature of the work of the Zionist lobby and its means of influencing existing legislative institutions and American public opinion and convincing Congress to adopt a policy in support of Israel.

According to Noam Chomsky, American policy is based on preserving its interests by any means, and the Palestinian issue does not deviate from this approach. Israel is a faithful servant of American interests in the region, so the United States supports it by all military means and by covering up its crimes through the media and supporting it as a victim being attacked by "Palestinian terrorism." Chomsky believes that Israel's relationship with the United States is a relationship of mutual interest. Whenever Israel abandons its function as a servant of the ideological goals of the United States, the latter will simply abandon it.

The policy of successive US administrations towards the Palestinian issue is based on giving Israel more time to impose a reality on the ground, which is why the United States is considered a partner with Israel in the war on the Gaza Strip over the past fifteen months of genocide, starvation and destruction. Perhaps America's use of the veto right against any project to support the Palestinian cause or to condemn Israel for the war of genocide confirms that the American position supports Israeli crimes, as it has been used dozens of times over decades in order not to hold Israel accountable or punish it or even apply international laws and human rights. All successive administrations provide billions annually to Israel to support establishing facts on the ground and expanding settlements, in addition to the continuous military support and deals that Israel obtains, even those that are outside the approval of US legislative institutions, as happened with the current President Trump, who rushed to complete an arms deal for Israel worth $7.4 billion despite Congress's objection. In addition to the strategic support for it, which is what Netanyahu expressed by saying that my visit to Washington represents a "historical turning point for Israel." The American news outlet Axios said about the American arms deal with Israel that it includes about 18,000 bombs for aircraft, to be delivered starting in 2025, and that they arrived in Israel with the arrival of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on February 15, 2025, on his first visit to the Middle East since taking office.

It is worth noting that Mike Huckabee, who was appointed by Trump as ambassador to Israel, said that Washington will make changes in the Middle East with “biblical dimensions.” Huckabee expressed his support for Trump’s plan to displace the people of Gaza to other countries, considering that Trump “took a bold step.” The former Arkansas governor said, “I believe that we will achieve change with biblical dimensions during the Trump administration in the Middle East,” adding, “There is Judea and Samaria (the name given by Jews to the West Bank), there is no such thing as the West Bank, there is no such thing as (illegal) settlement, there are communities, neighborhoods, and cities.” Channel 14 reported on January 3, 2024, that the US Congress is removing the name of the West Bank from all transactions of the new US administration, and calling it “Judea and Samaria,” based on its consideration as “the land of the Jewish people.” The channel confirmed that this step comes within the framework of ongoing efforts to consolidate Israeli control over the West Bank in 2025, and to strengthen American support for the Israeli position.

Accordingly, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich considered that Trump's return to the White House would pave the way for the annexation of the occupied West Bank.

With Trump coming to power in his first and second terms, he did not hesitate to embody his threats to the Palestinians and his promises to the Israelis, especially with regard to moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, a decision that no US president had dared to implement before. Trump implemented measures towards the Palestinian issue that focused on removing the files of “final solution issues” that would liquidate the Palestinian issue, as Netanyahu stated in a speech he gave at the American Jewish communities conference held in Tel Aviv on November 24, 2018, “Israel must retain security responsibility for the West Bank.” He described the future Palestinian entity that he accepts as less than a state and more than self-rule.

There is no doubt that the United States, during the era of Joe Biden and the era of Trump, has gone beyond the stage of support and bias towards Israel, despite the administration’s announcement of its intention to resolve the ongoing conflict. American policies and measures against the Palestinian cause clearly show that the American administration is a partner with the occupation in the war and the implementation of the Israeli project to liquidate the Palestinian cause. The US State Department informed Congress of an $8 billion arms deal to Israel, which is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, in addition to the US House of Representatives’ approval to punish officials in the “International Criminal Court” for condemning Israel and issuing an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Galant, through a bill imposing sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court. The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced in May 2024 that “Netanyahu and Galant bear responsibility for crimes against humanity in Gaza.”

The Israeli occupation army, supported by the United States and the West, has continued its aggression on Gaza for more than 500 consecutive days. The aggression has left more than 50,000 martyrs, more than 100,000 Palestinian wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst major humanitarian crimes in the world.

Since January 25, 2025, President Trump has been promoting a plan to displace the Palestinians of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan and seize the Strip. In response, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi suggested sending the Israelis to Greenland. In return, Netanyahu stated that President Trump is Israel’s greatest ally in the White House, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “I don’t think there is a better ally for Israel than Trump.” Trump announced that Washington would support Israel in any step it takes after the deadline for Hamas to hand over all its prisoners expired. He set Saturday, February 15, 2025, at twelve o’clock as a deadline for Hamas to hand over all the hostages at once, otherwise hell would befall Hamas. It is worth noting that the deadline expired and Trump left the ball in Israel’s court, which accepted the sixth batch of Israeli hostages without requiring the implementation of Trump’s threat.

Everything that Trump did in his first term and the beginning of his current term, from comprehensive aggression and unparalleled arrogance in international relations and unlimited support for Israel in its aggression against the Palestinian people, and his strange statements in the international political arena and even in international laws and legitimacy to displace the people of the West Bank and the people of Gaza and the threats and intimidation of hell and calamities against the Palestinian people in Gaza, confirms the saying of Homer, the most famous poet and writer of the Greeks, that “the sword incites violence.” Trump and his sword, “the great power,” are violence, injustice, chaos, and the war of extermination and destruction, and he is the one who pushes Israel to persist in its war against the Palestinian people. Netanyahu has become, at every turn, striking with Trump’s sword.

*Palestinian writer and researcher specializing in ideological movements.