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Trump's strategic mind is closing ranks against the US (!)

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What Trump said about Gaza at the press conference with Israel's war criminal, blood-handed murderer Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was visiting him, caused outrage, as expected. What he said is not speech, nor words from a sober head. I think the first reactions people displayed amid the outrage it caused stem from having to take Trump too seriously because he is the US President.

Those who rush to figure out which part of what he said about Gaza to correct assume that if they fix one side, they might hope to fix the whole sentence. Yet there is no side of it to fix, no aspect to be taken seriously, no connection to reality at all. For example, much commentary has been made about how, because he sees Gaza through the eyes of a real-estate agent, he cannot understand that the people living there look on it as a homeland.

The motivation behind the epic march that half a million Gazans set out on toward the North as soon as the ceasefire news was announced is clinging to the homeland. Trump says these people remained in Gaza because they have nowhere to go, and that they could leave if offered another place; this is actually not because he does not know the concept of homeland, the spiritual meaning of a place, but because he thinks such a motivation is too much of a luxury for anyone other than Jews. Otherwise the same formula could be offered to the Israelis far more easily, and why would the Israelis insist on a patch of land, a plot, for which alternatives could be found elsewhere? A solution to the problem could be had at the root by allotting them, in Alaska, in Canada, in any US state, lands several times more fertile than present-day Israeli lands. This formula never occurs to anyone for Israel, because the land is considered sacred to the Jews, but the possibility that the same land could be sacred for Muslims too is not even given room.

Let him give no room to it; in response to this proposal of Trump's, perceived as delirium, the Gaza people had already been showing for 75 years what price they are ready to pay for this land, but in the last war, over 471 days, they showed it in a way that will be engraved on the mind of the whole world. After the ceasefire too, those who saw how half a million people whose homes had been completely destroyed set out on the road back to the North saw the preciousness and sanctity of the homeland and the power of clinging to it.

Meanwhile, at least 1 million of Israel's bandit citizens, who came and settled because they consider the promised lands sacred, and who seized Palestinians' homes and lands while settling, packed up their belongings and went back to where they came from, merely because their country is unstable and is now and then exposed to Hamas attacks. So what is it: the name of the one who has proven himself in not regarding a land as merely a plot of land is Palestinian.

The Gaza people are already giving the best answer to how seriously we should take Trump's words. A few reactions from those who first heard these words have been compiled. Most burst out laughing, then say "what do you mean?!" asking what kind of joke they are facing. The Gaza people, who for 471 days left not one stone upon another, despite everything uprooted the Zionist massacring force, and would have gone on uprooting it further had the war not stopped. Israel had to throw in the towel not only to rescue the hostages but because it itself was tired of the war and saw that it would get no result.

The Gazans did not fight only against Israel, did not defeat only Israel. Along with Israel, the Gaza people also beat the US, and in slippers on their feet at that.

When Trump's outlandish words on Gaza are considered side by side with what he has said about annexing Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal, another language, another mind, another personality emerges before us. Especially after he, on his own initiative, as if a bride and groom had already agreed, dragged Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan into the matter of settling Gazans, the reactions from all three countries create a situation that requires one to rack one's brains over what Trump is trying to do. It is also seen that he attributes very great tactical-strategic value even to these fantasies, which no one would have dwelt on for a second had he not been US president. Opening the subject to discussion to accustom everyone to this idea, even forcing everyone to defend themselves against this idea, and in the end preparing the world for the possibility of the impossible... Is it necessary to talk so much nonsense for such a goal? Will there be a new opportunity that could make up for the prestige and credibility that one who talks so much nonsense will lose?

For example, under normal conditions Saudi Arabia was perhaps the actor in the region most ready to work with Trump. But can it be counted as a gain for Trump and his fantastical plans that even it reacted to Trump in the fastest and harshest way, declaring that it "firmly and unwaveringly supports the establishment of an independent Palestinian state"?

Egypt and Jordan made similar statements. In fact, might what Trump has done not cause a new international bloc to close ranks much more strongly against the US, which until now has supported Israel without limit and been complicit in its crimes?

How far can one trust the friendship or alliance of Trump, who had earlier presented Saudi Arabia with a fait accompli of 400 billion dollars of investment, then, with that amount raised to 600 by MBS himself, spoke of presenting another fait accompli and raising it to 1 trillion? How far can such a relationship be tolerated? What contribution to the relationship, greater than the burden he places on it, could he make?

Contrary to what is supposed, these absurd comedic fantasies will not give the US more advantage in Gaza or anywhere in the world. Such an inconsistent and absurd personality will quickly push away all allies with the profit-and-loss calculation they will make.

Who knows, perhaps Trump has a role in providing humanity a benefit by thus lightening the prestige of the US that has haunted the world? Even though we know, of course, that this is not his aim...