The US administration is on the right of the Israeli government

There are those who claim that the United States of America is not a political system as much as it is a company, a great company run by merchants seeking profit regardless of laws and ethics. They add that the company, in order to ensure continuity, success and persuasion, practices the game of calculated, elitist and guaranteed democracy, and allows freedom of expression framed in the service of the company's system and image. For this reason, it drowns the public in few options, moves them in narrow margins, and blinds their eyes with appearances and false competition. They add that this company runs the country as it runs a bank, and deals with the public and the world as a bank deals with its customers. Therefore, the United States - in this description and in this manner - is full of pressure groups and interest groups, and therefore it is ready to change its positions from one extreme to the other without the slightest pretext or even apology. And because the goal of profit owes nothing but profit, the United States seeks to possess all sources of power and all sources of wealth, and wants to frighten, eliminate, contain or benefit from competitors. I add that it is very difficult to search for a pure American identity, as the alleged American identity is a gathering of many ethnicities and races living under strict law. This means that the company referred to, in order to continue and convince, has created effective institutions to melt ethnicities if it can, and to ensure peace in the first place. In short, the United States of America is a strong company with strong institutions and strict law to control tendencies, identities and behavior through separation, revolution or both, and one of the secrets of Trump's success for the second time may be that he is trying to awaken a faded image of an extremist American Christian Evangelical identity that has found nothing but isolation, violence and extremism as means to define this identity.

I say this against the backdrop of the decisions and statements made by Trump and his administration in the past few weeks since he entered the White House. He is trying to restore the power of the company we mentioned, trying to impose customs duties even on his allies, trying to sell his security services, and wants to recover what was spent on previous American adventures and decisions. More than that, he wants to occupy new lands rich in wealth and minerals, and wants to confiscate what belongs to others as well. He wants to stop wars that do not concern him, but he wants to ignite other wars that concern him completely. He wants to isolate America by cutting spending in a move that is the most stupid, as not spending means America’s withdrawal and abandonment of its soft power and far-reaching cultural influence. But all of that is on one side, and what concerns us as Palestinians is on the other side. Since he entered the White House for the second time, Trump has done the following in a very short period of time:

The most prominent and hardened settlers in the occupied West Bank were invited to the presidential inauguration ceremony.

- His first decision ever was to repeal the law punishing settlers who practice violence in the West Bank.

- Hasten to implement all special requests for Israel for weapons and ammunition, which impose special legal conditions for their permission.

- Approval of the decision to give Israel bombs for blowing up ground fortifications, in a clear threat to Iran.

- Giving Israel a free hand to deal with the Gaza Strip, whether peacefully or by war, as it is closer to war.

- Not referring to or condemning what is happening in the West Bank at all.

- Naming the West Bank “Judea and Samaria” in reference to support for the brutal political and military war taking place there.

- Giving Israel a free hand in its declared policies against Syria, whether by occupation or intervention.

- Inviting Minister Smotrich to visit the United States, in an American signal of support for the far right.

- Last but not least, the statements that exceeded all imaginations regarding the expulsion of the residents of Gaza or renting the Strip and turning it into a luxury tourist area.

These statements were received by the Israeli government, which quickly established a unit in the Israeli army to facilitate the voluntary migration of Palestinians, a euphemism for actual expulsion.

It is clear that the new American administration is obsessed with supporting Israel with everything it has and giving it - especially the extreme religious right - everything it can give. The recent positions of the American administration on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict do not aim to reach a settlement or peace with the Arab and Islamic world, but rather are positions that undermine everything, and it wants to achieve peace, calm, stability, profit and investment by force, which cannot be achieved no matter the cost, not because America is not capable, but because the peoples of the region do not master dealing with corporate logic either. If the American administration is subject to financial and ideological pressure groups and implements what they want, then the Arab and Islamic region - sooner or later - certainly has answers.