By Tunde Asaju
Not since the time of Hitler has a so-called modern leader used absolute power with incredible impunity as Donald J Trump is using currently. From forcefully claiming territories to publicly announcing the annexation and subjugation of independent nations. It’s the modern version of catch me if you can!
In deference to the Emperor, he does not know how to hide his plans. Weeks ago, he flippantly flew the kite, wondering why Palestinians couldn’t move to neighbouring Arab countries to facilitate the clean up of Gaza. On the face of it, that suggestion sounded altruistic,except that, he was testing the waters for reactions. Apparently, the world was either too dazed or too cowered to react with disgust.
Truth is, the wily fox in Washington was preparing the ground for Tuesday’s meeting with the Butcher of Gaza, His Excellency, Binyamin Netanyahu. Like Trump, accused of corruption, Netanyahu found a convenient reason to keep himself in power pursuing a pogrom in feigned defense of the right to defend Israel’s sovereignty following the infamous October 7 attack by Hamas.
The widely condemned attack reportedly claimed over 1,000 Israeli lives, all slaughtered at dawn. Nobody asked for evidence as Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza blending blocks with blood and human flesh. It did not hide its plan – to wipe out Hamas. It said nothing about its plan to create a sea corridor that would rival and surpass the Suez Canal controlled by another Arab nation – Egypt. This is something that Israel has rued since the end of the last Arab-Israeli war.
By the time the ‘operation’ halted few weeks ago, over 40,000 Palestinians had been wiped off the earth – mostly the infirmed, women and children. Schools, hospitals and government buildings were worst hit because Israel wanted to make the return of the semblance of a State of Palestine impossible. Journalists became the collateral damage of that onslaught as Israel ensured it left no first hand or other account of its own vengeance on the innocent and the suspected.
A week to TRump’s inauguration, a ‘truce’ was ‘negotiated’ in which over 100 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were to be exchange for two or three Israeli captives – the value of one life versus the other. Even though he was yet to be sworn in, Trump claimed to have won the deal (as usual).
Tuesday, Trump hosted his good friend, Netanyahu at the White House and dropped the bombshell – the Gaza Strip is to be an extension of American territory. Palestinians should perish the thought of ever returning to their land or their ancestral homes.
They should negotiate to live as aliens in Arab nations while America cleans the place up, erect its trade mark steel skyscrapers and businessesas it flies its stars and stripes in a land nearly seven thousand miles from the place it now calls home. This is a land that has traditionally been Palestinian since the fall of Northern Samaria.
Watching with a smirk on his satanically cherubic face at a press conference was Netanyahu, tapping on the podium with bemusement all written over him. This, at a time when Trump has pulled funding from aid agencies and pulled America from organizations likely to challenge its hegemony on the rest of the world.
This ‘new’ deal confirms what has been whispered in global circles about the ultimate aim of the latest intifada – the complete removal of Palestinians from their land. The irony that Israel, which used the might of the UN to return to its so-called holy land wants no part in sharing the land with its half-brothers the Palestinians is painful to imagine. For if the Bible or the Torah is the basis of Israeli claimvto its so-called holy land, and if they are true descendants of Abraham, what happens to the the descendants of Ishmael who are Abraham’s children by Haggar?
If the Ishmaelites do not qualify for equal share in their father’s landed property by virtue of being born outside traditional Jewish marriage, shouldn’t they at least retain their right to stay in his boy’s quarters?
As the world awaits the Muslim ban 02, let us hope that Arabs are learning a lot of lessons from this subterfuge. Justice, the reason for which old America removed leaders, fought wars and evangelized democratic values is dead. Long live the new world order and its evangelists.
Oppressed people of the world must unite. It’s the only way to secure any rights in the new world order, after all didn’t Trump impose tariffs on South Africa for dismantling apartheid? Didn’t he make Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia bow to the supremacy of America’s might? Isn’t he threatening the EU, Russia and others with sanctions. Hasn’t he imposed tariffs on China? Is any part immune from the new world order where any land anywhere can be confiscated and appropriated by and for America?
Culled from Tunde Asaju’s Facebook post