Posted on March 6, 2024
Trump said he supported Israel’s brutal military operations in Gaza in an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday.
Trump agreed when a host described him as being “firmly in Israel’s camp.”
He was then asked if he was “on board” with the way the Israeli military was carrying out its campaign.
“You’ve got to finish the problem. You had a horrible (false flag) invasion that took place, that would have never happened if I was president, by the way,” Trump replied.
Trump did not elaborate on his position and only claimed the October 7 Hamas (false flag) attack wouldn’t have happened if he was still president. When asked whether or not he would support a ceasefire in Gaza, Trump said, “Look, I hate seeing what’s happening. Again, it would have never happened. This attack on Israel and, likewise, Israel’s counter-attack, which is what it is, would never have happened if I was president.”
During his time in office, Trump was extremely pro-Israel and carried out several policies to support Israeli claims to occupied land.
His administration recognized the Golan Heights as Israeli territory and declared that illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank do not violate international law.
Trump’s administration moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and unveiled a so-called “peace plan” that would have seen Israel annex large swathes of the West Bank.
Trump’s administration moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and unveiled a so-called “peace plan” that would have seen Israel annex large swathes of the West Bank.
Trump also brokered the Abraham Accords, deals that resulted in Israel normalizing ties with the UAE and Bahrain.
Trump has been relatively quiet on the campaign trail about the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, but he is expected to continue unconditional military support for Israel if he wins in November.
Trump has been relatively quiet on the campaign trail about the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, but he is expected to continue unconditional military support for Israel if he wins in November.
So far, nearly 31,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, and about two-thirds of the casualties are women and children.
Gazan leaders are being restrained in their death toll numbers, counting only bodies they have seen
ReplyDeleteBut there are many more under the rubble as yet unseen, and many dying with little hope, given how Gaza is starved of medical supplies and food
Ralph Nader - the consumer advocate who led the global push for safer automobiles, and was an occasional USA independent presidential candidate, of Lebanese Christian heritage - thinks a more realistic Gaza death toll would be 200,000
https://www.unz.com/article/how-many-gazans-have-already-died-perhaps-200000/
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"In a Hebrew news article [it is reported that] US officials in every conversation in recent weeks have been warning Israel that it is responsible for the humanitarian disaster taking place in Gaza.
At this point nothing but cutting off the cash and bombs and UN vetoes [to Israel] could even begin to impart upon the Israelis, the levels of shock and disbelief and horror at what Israel is doing.
We're long past the point of a ceasefire being enough. There needs to be an international protection force in Gaza — to protect Palestinians from Israel, to ensure they don't die of starvation, to allow the world to deliver critical aid, to make sure that Palestinians who have fled can return to their homes, and to make sure the Israeli army doesn't stay in Gaza, or ever come back."
The above from
https://twitter.com/MikeOmerMan/status/1763792170044334273
reposted via Simplicius
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-342024-rifts-in-bibis-camp
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On a perhaps-staged 'hot microphone' moment US President Joe Biden promised a 'come to Jesus' discussion with Netanyahu, and then confirmed he was pleased he was overheard
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-meant-hell-jesus-meeting-netanyahu-vp-harris/story?id=107929056
'Come to Jesus' is a phrase arising from USA evangelical Christian religious culture, referring to a 'conversion' of moral awareness, changing life's course to be more ethical