President Donald Trump’s address to Congress and the nation on Tuesday night was remarkably devoid of any mention of why the United States continues to both enable and be complicit in the Ukrainian conflict with Russia as well as with the war crimes that are being committed by the state of Israel against nearly all its neighbors on a daily basis. The most recent abomination committed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of thugs is the cutting off of food, medicine and temporary housing to the Gazans who were bold enough to return to their ruined homes due to a ceasefire negotiated successfully by US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff in January. Now that Netanyahu has decided to come up with some false assertions to break the agreement, allowing him to continue his extermination of the Palestinian people, Trump as peace maker seems to have disappeared without a trace even though the US was in a sense a guarantor of the phased disengagement. Instead, Trump has doubled down on the side of Israel, issuing a “last warning� to Hamas during direct negotiations with the group to release all of the hostages in Gaza immediately. Per Trump in a posting on Truth Social on Wednesday: “Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you.� Trump wrote that he would send Israel “everything it needs to finish the job,� and warned that “Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say.� It should also be noted that Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners whose fate is evidently of no concern to Donald Trump while the Israeli “world’s most moral army� has continued to kill numerous Palestinians even while the ceasefire was allegedly in place without a squeak coming out of Washington just as it has also been killing Lebanese and Syrians.

I still recall with some fondness the Monty Python movie entitled “The Meaning of Life,� in part because the United States has, since 9/11, been on a berserker course to teach the rest of the world about the “meaning of death.� Some observers maintain that the imperative to deliver millions of dead has been necessary to maintain US dominance in an unstable world, which is a “good thing� for everyone who survives the carnage as they will live by the “rule of international law� as laid down by Washington. But I have something like a different theory, i.e. that much of that kind of thinking derives from the neoconservatives, largely a Jewish-led and funded movement which has come to dominate the foreign policy and national security thinking of both major American political parties. Going back to the first Gulf War, the neocons have believed that US dominance has been good for Israel, particularly as they subsequently perceived that 9/11 was a gift from Jehovah that enabled the full might of the United States military to be used against Israel’s enemies starting with Iraq. Indeed, the Baathist regime was attacked and destroyed based on a series of lies and false intelligence concocted by monsters like Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith at the Pentagon plus Scooter Libby in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. Israeli intelligence officers from the Embassy in Washington had full and free access to the Wolfowitz Pentagon office while the process was playing out. President George W. Bush was clearly too stupid to realize that he was being conned.

But getting back to President Trump’s evident reluctance to discuss the one remaining war that he could stop in a heartbeat by cutting off all aid and political support, there is the question that is unanswered about why the US should become an accomplice to mass murder in a slaughter where there is no conceivable American national interest. Indeed, one might reasonably argue that the involvement with Israel and its human rights disaster has already done considerable damage to both the reputation and the economy of the United States. Some observers oddly continue to believe that it is the United States that exploits Israel to further its own imperial ambitions but nothing could be further from the truth as even a cursory examination of the one sidedness of the relationship reveals that it is Israel often acting through its US domestic lobby that is actually running the show.

So if the negatives about Israel are even partly true why is the leadership of the US from both principal parties reluctant to cut the tie that binds Washington to the criminal apartheid enterprise that has illegally occupied and now hides in a place once called Palestine? I personally have long believed that the history of Jewish perfidy directed at corrupting and gaining influence over the United States goes back more than a hundred years with the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913 and the gaining control of many major newspapers at around the same time. As Nathan Mayer Rothschild put it in 1815, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.â€� And then there are the descendants of Adolph Ochs, who have exercised majority control over the New York Times since Ochs bought the paper in 1896. The Times self-describes as America’s “newspaper of recordâ€� with its lies and distortions, particularly when it is Israel that is under discussion.

Not surprisingly, much of the corruption of American institutions by Israel has to do with Jewish money which has influenced the shift of foreign policy views of both major US political parties. In the recent election, Jewish casino billionaire Mirian Adelson reportedly gave Trump $100 million and in exchange he promised to permit Israeli annexation of the Palestinian West Bank, which is currently proceeding. Beyond that buying of favors and the accompanying semi-overt takeover of the United States, there should be serious suspicions about possible hidden “covert actions� undertaken by Israel and its agents. One might cite the assassination of John F. Kennedy just as he was about to force the Israel lobby groups to register while also shutting down Israel’s secret and illegal nuclear weapons program. And then there is 9/11 itself’s possible ties to Israel’s massive spying program in the US at that time to include the “dancing Shlomos� on the day of the attack, and the systematic corruption of congress and the American political system through the “buying of politicians� by Jewish billionaire oligarchs acting on behalf of Israel.

I was pleased last Tuesday when my favorite foreign policy analyst Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, my alma mater, responded to a question from Judge Andrew Napolitano, who had asked why Israel is able to get away with so much that does damage to the United States, to include manipulation of a run of presidents including both Joe Biden and now Donald Trump who dare not challenge a vicious creature like Benjamin Netanyahu. Even Barack Obama, who disliked Netanyahu intensely, knew he had to play the game to placate the Democratic Party’s Jewish donors.

After Donald Trump began to pull together his cabinet and inner circle it became pretty clear that the overwhelming tie that bound the group together was its embrace of Israel and everything that it is doing. There were even jokes that the top cabinet officials had apparently been selected by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel himself to reflect the fact that the Jewish state would be calling the shots for Trump even more than they did with the spineless Joe Biden. The handover of power was confirmed for all to see when Trump invited Netanyahu to the White House, the first foreign head of state to be so sanctified. While in Washington, a grinning Netanyahu was beguiled to learn of a crazy scheme to either kill or throw all the remaining Palestinians out of what was once Palestine and turn the ruins of Gaza into a high-end beach resort. Since that time, Trump has assured a delighted Netanyahu that no Palestinians would be allowed to return to visit what was once the site of their homes and communities.

So okay, those of us who had not yet learned to accept the occasional genocides carried out by Israel on its neighbors are now quickly learning to understand that the enabling role played by Joe Biden in the massacres of the Arabs was about to accelerate to a higher gear, which would include the clearing of the West Bank and incorporation of parts of Lebanon and Syria after the two million or so pesky Gazans are removed. Nevertheless, there were still some surprises to come and I must confess that some developments as well as recent comments made by Trump’s team have been astonishing even if one expected the worst.

Even seasoned Trump-o-philes might have been astonished by an apparently Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated short video prepared for Trump and released on Tuesday on his website Truth Social. It is a brief cartoonish tour of what Gaza might look like when it is transformed into Trump Gaza on the Mediterranean, a luxury beachfront destination, filled with posh sky-scrapers and condominiums, and even featuring bearded bellydancers. The video includes Trump and Netanyahu sunbathing together on the beach, Elon Musk apparently eating hummus, and a fifty feet high golden statue of Donald Trump the Founder located prominently on one of the resort’s main thoroughfares. Small replicas of the golden Trump statue were also seen on a gift shop rack for sale, apparently as souvenirs. Every family should have one to place prominently in its home to protect against Hamas “terrorists.�

Coming close to the Trump video in terms of its bizarreness, is the behavior by Representative Brian Mast from Florida, who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Mast is perhaps best known for the fact that he was an American veteran who volunteered to serve with the Israel Defense Force (IDF) after he was wounded in Afghanistan and discharged. He has appeared in Congressional offices and in meetings in Washington in his Israeli army uniform, which some, including myself, consider to be both disgraceful and even borderline treasonous. Mast has often asserted the value of his Israeli credentials and cited his love for Israel saying “I stand by Israel,� which should be a disqualifier for the office he holds. In his latest stunt last week, Mast informed the fifty Republican staffers on his committee that henceforth they must not refer to the part of Palestine that is generally called the West Bank by that name. The House Committee must henceforth refer to the region as “Judea and Samaria� which is the Israeli preferred “biblical� usage that will no doubt serve as a first step in the annexation of the area into the apartheid Israeli state. Mast elaborated that “in recognition of our unbreakable bond with Israel and the inherent right of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will, from here forward, refer to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria in formal correspondence, communication and documentation.�

While it may seem only symbolic, referring to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria� is a clear show of support for Israeli annexation. Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee to serve as the US ambassador to Israel, also refers to the West Bank using the same language and has said annexation is possible under the new Trump administration. Earlier this month, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas also reintroduced a bill that would require the use of the term “Judea and Samaria� in all official US documents. Representative Claudia Tenney of New York also introduced the identical legislation in the House and maintained that “the Israeli people have an undeniable and indisputable historical and legal claim over Judea and Samaria.�

Congress and the White House have clearly become Israeli Occupied territory as Pat Buchanan once colorfully described the US government. Another prominent Israeli firster who is showing his true colors is the grotesque Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who has recently received the resignations of six of his staffers, who complained that all the work that they had been given recently had reflected the Senator’s obsession with supporting Israel. Congressman Tom Massie of Kentucky has declared that every Republican congressman but himself has among their staffs at least one “minder� (he calls them “babysitters�) who is present to monitor and report on how the representative votes in support of Israel. The Israel-first staffer is often an employee of the Lobby, commonly either connected to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) or with the even more virulent Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

After the “cleansing of Gaza� the West Bank will clearly be next. Israel has already announced that the approximate 40,000 West Bank Palestinians who have already been driven from their homes in ongoing operation “Iron Wall� will not be allowed to return and new Jewish settlements are planned for the former Palestinian towns and villages. As in Gaza the Israeli onslaught has involved the destruction of roads, homes, schools, churches, hospitals and other infrastructure, and the killing of civilians, including a pregnant woman and several children.

There has been considerable controversy surrounding the Trump administration decision to cutback on government agencies that are ostensibly committed to charitable, educational and other nation building activities both overseas and in the United States. This spending, amounting to scores of billions of dollars, has helped produce budget deficits that ballooned in the twenty-first century, largely due to the surge in overseas activity that occurred after the trauma of 9/11 when Jewish Supremacists decided the United States should serve as Israel’s policeman in the Middle East to enable the Jewish state’s expansion under the cover of making it “safe.� As the US is now verging on bankruptcy due to its unsustainable debts, the second incarnation of the Trump Administration has focused on cutting budgets in areas that it considers to be enemy occupied, often meaning “woke� or institutionally allied to the Democrats. Social programs as well as the bloated defense department spending were considered to be suitable targets so starting during the first week in February, the White House brought down the hammer when it went after a number of government agencies, inter alia calling for huge cuts in Pentagon spending and the complete elimination of the Education Department.

The White House also shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), firing nearly all of its 10,000 employees, reportedly leaving only little more than 600 employees in place to assist in the shutting down or downsizing of facilities in the US and in foreign countries. Also, about 800 awards and contracts that are administered through USAID were reportedly being canceled. There have reportedly been some judicial delays in the firings due to the complexity of removing thousands of employees and families from overseas offices and housing, though the pause is likely to be only temporary.

Tax dollars are traditionally used corruptly to fund projects and policies dear to the hearts of politicians, which is why Ron Paul and others have called for sweeping audits, including of the Federal Reserve system and the Pentagon in particular. This hidden spending is particularly difficult to identify if the program is somehow linked to foreign policy and/or national security, which have traditionally been protected from scrutiny by denying nearly all public access to sensitive information based on the “need to know� principle to safeguard sources and vulnerable activities.

USAID was founded in 1961 during the John F. Kennedy administration to unite several foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency. At first it was seriously intended to be a mechanism for the US to aid in health, disaster relief, socioeconomic development, environmental protection, democratic governance and education. Its focus, however, eventually became to guide development in parts of the world that suffered from what were considered to be dysfunctional governments and institutions in terms of American interests. USAID has always been funded by the federal government and its upper management has worked closely with the Department of State, to which it is technically accountable, and the intelligence agencies in particular. Its budget in 2023 was $43 billion. Trump’s reduction in force (RIF) of USAID has been accompanied by a shake-up in its management, its remaining responsibilities now being in the hands of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has considerable experience in special agency management after having served on the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) Republican subsidiary component, the International Republican Institute (IRI). NED, which operates extensively overseas, has also been stripped of funding by Trump.

The dismantling of USAID does not necessarily mean the organization will completely go away, it will just be much reduced and under new management. It will likely have a new mission, though no one is at this point sure what that will mean. And USAID and NED are not alone as the presidential memo has called for a halt to the funding of all the government components that are dependent on taxpayer generated funds to provide what is perhaps euphemistically referred to as “foreign aid.� USAID and NED do have humanitarian projects, i.e. feeding the hungry, but they are primarily politically driven. The NED component IRI puts it this way on its website “Our mission at IRI—advancing democracy worldwide—is a battle with many fronts. I am proud to say that IRI is supportive of every endeavor that will bring freedom to more people. We have made progress in our mission by giving hope to those who wish to protest on a city street, run for office, or cast a ballot.�

So the aid organizations overtly have a political role, but how does it translate in practice and does it extend to playing favorites with the US media and political parties? Trump has put it another way, declaring that USAID leaders were “radical left lunatics.” This is what he claims on his website Truth Social:

“LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLEN AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A ‘PAYOFF’ FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING ‘RAG,’ KNOWN AS ‘POLITICO,’ SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times receive money??? Who else did??? THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY! THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T HIDE FROM THIS ONE. TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!�

There are, in fact, credible reports that the 2019 impeachment of Trump was driven by the actions and disinformation coming from CIA, FBI and USAID operatives, so it is plausible to assume that Trump is now settling scores. Beyond that, USAID and NED are both notorious for their roles in the business of covertly supporting opposition political parties worldwide and assisting in regime change. Billionaire philanthropist George Soros, through his network of organizations, received $260 milllion from USAID for funneling funds to non-governmental-organizations (NGOs) connected with Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which are known for advocating for radical policies and regime changes globally. Soros is also a Democratic Party favorite and major fund raiser, having recently received at a White House ceremony the honor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented in absentia to his son Alex from outgoing President Joe Biden.

The Trump Administration, in place for only a little over three weeks, has gone full speed ahead in its advocacy for Israel. Donald Trump’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit him at the White House, the first foreign head of state to be honored in that fashion, set the stage for a whole series of actions intended to confirm the status of Israel as America’s “best friend and closest ally� as it is often celebrated by both government and the media. Trump also delighted his visitor by revealing a plan for the United States to completely remove the Palestinians from Gaza so that the US government could “buy� and “own� the strip in order to rebuild it in luxury style, with properties overlooking the Mediterranean Sea emulating the French Riviera that then would be sold to folks “in the area�, meaning presumably wealthy Jews, as Trump also made clear, no Gazans would be allowed to return to what was once their homes. Netanyahu meanwhile is ethnically cleansing the other remnant of Palestinians on the West Bank, meaning that what once was Palestine will before too long be free of Palestinians, and the three million plus new refugees will either be made dead or shipped off to parts unknow. Trump indicated that that issue, meaning the moves undertaken by Israel to depopulate and then annex the West Bank, is also under direct discussion with the Netanyahu government.

Trump also has cleared a shipment of 1800 devastating Mark-84 2000 pound bombs to “finish the job� on Gaza as needed and also, presumably, with Hezbollah neighbors to the north in Lebanon if they should again become uppity. Beyond that, $9 billions dollars worth of new slightly smaller bombs and artillery projectiles as well as armored Caterpillar bulldozers, useful for knocking down Palestinian houses and clearing debris and bodies for the construction of luxury villas, are also on the way.

To top it all off and in giving a special and personal gift to Netanyahu himself, Trump has also issued an executive order imposing comprehensive sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its staff to punish it for having the nerve to accuse the Prime Minister of Israel and his Minister of Defense of war crimes in Gaza. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office welcomed the move and he personally responded to Trump with “Thank you, President Trump, for your bold ICC Executive Order. It will defend America and Israel from the anti-American and antisemetic [sic] corrupt court that has no jurisdiction or basis to engage in lawfare against us… The ICC waged a ruthless campaign against Israel as a trial run for action against America. President Trump’s Executive Order protects the sovereignty of both countries and its brave soldiers. Thank you, President Trump.�

Nevertheless, Trump, whose ignorance about whom to blame for what has been happening in the Middle East during the past seventy-five years is profound, is nevertheless learning that not everything works out as he would like it to. There are already indications that the Gaza Riviera plan is unlikely to develop for a number of reasons, including unwillingness of Arab countries to take in millions of new refugees as well as who pays for it and provides security. There are also legal issues including the question of whom Trump intends to “buy� the land from as the Gazans are regarded by most of the world and also by the international courts as the owners, not Israel, which would presumably wind up as the default possessors through military occupation of the property. So the “deal of the millennium� is not likely to go through in quite the way that the US president described it.

To a certain extent, Trump is being allowed to get away with his overweening fondness for Israel because a Congress that has been corrupted by Jewish lobby money is, if anything, more pathetic and prone to crawling before Netanyahu than is the president. So there is virtually no check on his behavior when it comes to giving Israel even more than what it demands as tribute. Lest the reader be tempted to ask, there is more, much more, and some of it not only contrary to actual US interests, but actually damaging to the existing constitutional rights and liberties of each and every American citizen.

I rather think that some a recent move by Trump’s new Attorney General Pam Bondi, which was barely reported in the media, illustrates the absurdity of the positions being staked out by “Israel First� fanatics who have filled most of the top offices in the new cabinet. Prior to taking up her position, Bondi, echoing her new boss’s record for inane comments, urged in a Newsmax interview shortly after Hamas’ October 7^th attack on Israel, that federal officials get tougher with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses. “Frankly, they need to be taken out of our country or the FBI needs to be interviewing them right away,� she said. She also called antisemitism “rampant� in the US and said it’s “heartbreaking to see what’s happening to all of our Jewish friends in this country.�

Pam Bondi is clearly following up on her concern about Israel’s security. Now that she is actually in office, one of her first official acts after being sworn in on Wednesday was to establish a joint task force dedicated to “investigating the perpetrators of the October 7^th Hamas terror attacks and seeking justice for their victims.� Bondi elaborated on the need to address “the ongoing threat posed by Hamas and its affiliates, both domestically and abroad� suggesting that she thinks that she has jurisdiction in Gaza.

The agenda of Joint Task Force October 7 will apparently not be limited to investigating possible terrorist violence —it is also tasked with prosecuting “antisemitic civil rights violations� and “other federal crimes� committed by presumed “Hamas terrorism supporters� domestically, including on US college campuses. Predictably, Michael Masters, CEO of the Secure Community Network, which provides security guidance to Jewish institutions across the US, said of the task force that “This administration is taking the threats to our community very, very seriously, which we are grateful for.� Indeed, Masters likely knows well that “his community� is already taken well care of by the US government as more that 90% of all discretionary security grants made by the Department of Homeland Security goes to Jewish recipients. I wonder what your salary is Michael?

The creation of the October 7^th task force suggests Bondi views Islamist terrorism as a major threat and urgent issue to address, which could easily be contested in the context of the United States. The task force, which will be supervised by the deputy attorney general, will be staffed with FBI agents experienced in terrorism investigations. Notably, it will also work in conjunction with counterparts in Israel which means that Israelis will be investigating American citizens and residents.

The problem is that those folks who are looking nervously at what President Donald Trump is doing to reshape the Middle East to the benefit of Israel are not looking deeply enough into the US domestic policy changes that are also being promoted that will strip Americans of fundamental rights like freedom of speech or association in any situation in which Israel or Jewish groups are involved, even marginally. It is as if the United States is fully engaged in two major tasks simultaneously. The first consists of supporting Israel uncritically no matter what it does or how many civilians it seeks to kill without necessarily overtly endorsing all the policies embraced by the monstrous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cutthroat colleagues. This is the way President Joe Biden ran things aided by his Zionist Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Biden feigned concern over the tens or possibly even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians being killed by Israel but he kept the flow of American bombs, money, and total political support in place even when he feebly warned and then failed to follow through on a threat that there would be consequences if Israel continued to blockade and starve the Gazans.

The second objective involves laboring to entrench and expand Jewish power in America is to create domestic political and media environment where criticism of Israel or of any Jewish groups will be criminalized, up to and including deporting individuals who are perceived as pro-Palestinian activists or, as Donald Trump has put it, “Jew haters.� The Attorney General and the hopefully soon to be abolished Department of Education are now coming down hard on universities who are perceived as not acting forcibly enough to protect Jewish students. This legal contrivance is accomplished in the time-honored fashion by equating opposition to Israeli and US government policies as “support of terrorism.�

The US media, heavily influenced by Jewish participants and money, is a major component in the “Israel First� racket through its slanted reporting of everything that takes place in the Middle East as well as its avoidance of any serious discussion of constitutional infringements that derive from the desire to protect Israel. One should note recent antisemitism legislation at both federal and state levels which defines criticism of Israel as ipso facto antisemitism and therefore a hate crime with civil and other penalties attached. And then there is Congress where legislator are terrified of offending the Israel Lobby and its Jewish billionaire backers lest they lose their sinecures, meaning that any bill supporting Israel will pass by overwhelming majorities no matter what damage it does to US interests and citizen rights.

Donald Trump has certainly added some wrinkles to the Biden status quo vis-à-vis the Jewish dominated state that he inherited, but he is clearly on the same page as his predecessor. He has talked “peace” while also releasing and sending new shipments of heavy 2000 pound bombs and other ordnance to Israel that can only be used to destroy more buildings occupied by Arabs. He is as much in the pocket of Benjamin Netanyahu backed by the US Israel Lobby and its billionaires as was Genocide Joe. And it is likely that Trump’s successor, whoever that might be, will be similarly constrained.

There is considerable discussion going on over the meaning of Trump’s proposal to have the United States assume “ownership� of Gaza, a process that will begin with the apparent Israeli assisted expulsion of the 1.7 million surviving Gazans, sending them to some unknown as yet recipient destination as refugees, the “cleaning up� of the bombed and ruined structures on the strip, and the development of a Riviera type luxury seaside community which, eventually, would be opened up to folks in “the area� which would mean Jewish Israelis as Palestinians would not be allowed to return to their former homes. Former property developer Trump enthused over how the project “…would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth.� The US would presumably pay for the multi-billion dollar redevelopment. Trump initially said that the security for the process would be provided by American soldiers and Marines, who would possibly be in place for a number of years, but he is now asserting through is press office that no US military would be needed.

How the US would actually arrange to “own� Gaza is unclear as the Gazans themselves will not be involved in the process, though Trump is now asserting that “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,� which would appear to imply that more fighting with Hamas is anticipated in spite of the ceasefire agreement. It also suggests that Donald Trump thinks the current “owner� of Gaza is Israel. Interestingly, Trump’s Zionist stepson Jared Kushner, himself a New York property developer, discussed the prospects for the development of a top resort with luxury Mediterranean Sea-view waterfront housing in Gaza over a year ago and he may have influenced his father-in-law’s current proposal. Also interestingly, when Trump unveiled his plan for Gaza he said that he had discussed the proposal with many colleagues inside and outside government and had received nothing but positive responses. The New York Times is instead reporting that Trump’s colleagues in his own administration had not been advised or briefed regarding what was coming and were shocked by the Gaza proposal when it was surfaced by the president.

I, of course, believe that the whole scheme is, as ever in post 9/11 US politics, an elaborate construct cloaked in deception to promote what are clearly seen as Israel’s interests as the US has nothing to gain from continuing to pump money and arms into a volatile Middle East. Trump’s top negotiator in the region Steve Witkoff met with Netanyahu in Washington on the day before the Israeli Prime Minister met with the president and I rather imagine that the entire proposal was discussed with him in detail and met with his approval. And the currently under siege West Bank also was also subsequently mentioned when, in response to a reporter’s question about a potential Israeli annexation of the area, Trump said that he would be making a decision on the issue soon. “People do like the idea, but we haven’t taken a position on it yet,â€� said Trump. “We’ll be making an announcement probably on that very specific topic over the next four weeks.â€�