Will Trump turn the tables on Netanyahu?

It's normal to sleep on your right side and wake up on your left. But what's not normal these days is to go to bed with good news in this world only to wake up to the worst.

I'm not talking about the rising prices of eggs and milk in the market, nor the prices of cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, and meat during Ramadan. These rise and fall according to supply and demand and the greed of some merchants.

The matter is much bigger. Gaza is a source of anxiety and pain, but also of joy and happiness, compared to the days when tons of American-made and imported Israeli bombs rained down on it. The days when the occupation waged a genocidal war against the people of Gaza, killing children and women, destroying homes, and burning the tents of the displaced, after every person in the Strip had been displaced more than once.

For fifteen months, Israel has been waging the dirtiest war against humanity in modern times. The world watches with blind eyes and iron ears.

Until Trump, the new occupier of the White House, came with dark threats and hostile stances against not just one but several countries. He threatened to abolish Canada and annex it to the United States, occupy Greenland, harass Mexico, and of course, buy Gaza without paying a single dollar. He began to seek and pressure the displacement of the people of Gaza. I wish he would understand the difference between "people" and "residents." The former refers to the legitimate owners of the land, rooted in its roots for thousands of years. The latter refers to those residing there, and a resident's residency can expire for one reason or another and he may be deported.

But don't worry about everything Trump said in his first days in office. He has either retracted most of what he said himself or has been retracted by his aides.

Regarding the displacement of the people of Gaza, the firm stance of Jordan and Egypt, the two countries he asked to host them "temporarily or permanently," as he put it with his own tongue, had the greatest impact on his retreat from the "creative idea" that resulted from his thinking outside the box, the box of Netanyahu and the Israeli right.

Trump realized that Netanyahu wanted to embroil him in the sands of Gaza and the quagmire of the Middle East. He ignored him and jumped directly to the main issue: the Palestinian resistance. He dispatched his envoy to Doha to conduct direct negotiations with Hamas for the first time, away from the eyes and knowledge of Netanyahu and his failed extremist team.

With these negotiations, Trump dealt Netanyahu a painful blow. Not only did he ignore him, he was negotiating with a movement classified as a "terrorist" under US law. But he is known for his fondness for "strongmen" and his disrespect for failures. What could be more powerful than fighters who have trumped the "undefeated army" and who have stood firm against the most powerful force in the region throughout this war?

During the US elections, I told a friend living in America, "If I were American, I would vote for Trump." He was surprised and said that the Democratic Party and its candidate, Kamala Harris, were better for Arab issues than the fiercely offensive Trump. I replied that Biden had given Israel more than his country had given to any other country, and that it was enough that he boasted of being a Zionist. Who knows, perhaps Trump, the "real estate developer," will turn the tables on Israel, use a calculator to calculate how much America has given Israel since its inception and demand that it return those sums.

So far, Trump's policy has been in this direction, and he may treat Netanyahu in the same way he treated Zelensky, forcing him not to stop fighting, but to withdraw from Gaza and end the war.

But nothing is certain. What you go to bed with, you might wake up with the opposite, especially with Trump!