Could Trump be persuaded to save Palestinians in Gaza?

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It seems paradoxical to look to Donald Trump to save the Palestinians, yet no recent American president has been better placed to insist that the Israeli government stop its extraordinary repression and brutality.

 

Trump so far has largely given Israel carte blanche to continue its genocide in Gaza, but Benjamin Netanyahu would be remiss to count on the fickle and self-serving American president. And there may be a way to turn Trump around.

 

 

Most US presidents have stuck with the Israeli government regardless of its atrocities because the political fallout of deviating was too high.

 

Could Trump be persuaded to save Palestinians in Gaza?

 

Kenneth Roth goes on to argue that Trump is not vulnerable to pressure from Israel's supporters in the US because there is no significant political figure to his right in the US for Israel to turn to.

Moreover, the US has given Israel more than $22bn to prosecute its war in Gaza, with no end in sight (more than $300bn since Israel’s founding in 1948). Transactional Trump may start to blanch at these figures.

Plus Trump seems to really want a Nobel peace prize. There's no way that will happen with ethnic cleansing in Gaza or the population corralled into what the former Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert described as concentration camps.

If, on the other hand, if Trump could help form a Palestinian state, a two state solution, money from the rich Arab states would pour in for Gaza's reconstruction.

Of course Netanyahu opposes such a scenario, but if Trump could grow a pair, threaten Israel with turning off US financial and arms assistance if progress is not made, then perhaps Donald's dream of the prize could come true.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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