By James M. Dorsey
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US President Donald J. Trump’s recognition of Israel’s mushrooms of humanitarian aid that Gaza has achieved is more than a reprimand of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s denials From hunger in the comic. It also indicates the temporary retreat of the president of grandiose visions of the reform of the middle East.
Mr Trump’s switch from gears to concentrate on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis was probably inspired by images of Palestinians, in particular babies and children, made up by the refusal of Israel to make the unobstructed stream of humanitarian aid in the comic possible.
Nevertheless, the focus of the president also serves to anchor Israeli control and stym Generational Revolt Brewing In his support base and the recognition of Palestine as a state by important American allies, including France, Great -Britain and Canada.
Mr. Trump parroted the claim of Mr Netanyahu that recognition of Palestine Hamas would reward, which would probably describe as a successful result of his 7 October 2023, attack on Israel in which around 1,200 people, mainly citizens, and the Gaza war.
Messrs Trump and Netanyahu probably acknowledge that the opposite is also true. A refusal to acknowledge Palestine would reward Israel because of his long -standing refusal to recognize Palestinians’ rights on an independent state next to Israel on land internationally recognized as Palestinian.
The refusal of Israel has cost the life of tens of thousands and disrupted the life of much more.
Double on his echoing the statements of Israel Hamas is responsible for the lack of food of Gaza instead of being on Israel to lift all obstacles to the free stream of essential goods, Mr. Trump announced a vague plan to illuminate the crisis aimed at Israel who controls an improved process with the controversial Israel (in the USA supported Gsa -based Gsa (Gs -based Gsa -based Gsa and the USA -supported Gsa (GS -based Gsa, the Gsa -Rest.
‘We will be Dealing with Israel. And we think they can do well. They want to chair the food centers to ensure that distribution is correct, “said Mr. Trump.
A Five-Hour Visit on Friday to a Foundation Food Distribution Site in Gaza by Us Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Dressed in a Military Fatigues Shirt A Make America Great again (Maga) Cap, A Bullet Proof Mike Ste-Proofbeelle vest Israel’s Effort to Replace the United Nations and International Aid Organizations’ Decades-Long Proven Delivery System in the Strip at the Expense of Palestinian is alive.
The foundation operates four locations in Gaza compared to the 400 of the UN and Aid Groups. Some 1,000 desperate Palestinian food seekers have been killed At the locations of the foundation since it started in May with operations.
The Foundation operations made two months after Israel refused access to Gaza of all help for 130 days.
International organizations” Israeli soldierswitnesses, and whistleblowers Blame Israeli troops and private -American security personnel for most of the murders.
Lt. Colonel (RET) Tony Aguilar, a former Purple Hart Green Beret with a 25-year-old military record that includes fights in Afghanistan and Iraq, spent 45 days as guardian points of the foundation in Gaza.
Tony Aguilar on the YouTube channel of Bernie Saunders
‘The IDF checked and sent each aspect of the delivery of help“Mr. Aguilar said in a video posted on the YouTube channel of Bernie Sanders, an independent member of the American congress and one -off presidential candidate.
“The process of having the Palestinians left, the distribution site was done by shooting at them, touching them with pepper spray and tear gas, firing rubber bullets on them. And this is not something that happened only once or twice. This happened every day, at every distribution, on every site. This is not a hyperboli.
Mr. Aguilar said that he did not perish a threat in any time and that incoming fire came from Israeli troops nearby.
In response, the Heer Aguilar Foundation accused Van Spreading a “false story,” distribute “forged documents” and “presenting misleading videos” After he was fired for performance reasons.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation releases Aguile SMS messages
The foundation has released SMS messages and metadata to prove its claims, including an alleged threat from Mr. Aguilar to seek retribution as his employer, American solutions, did not hear him again.
Christian Zionist pastor Johnnie Moore, the recently appointed executive chairman of the foundation, insisted that media were over the murders “was”not something we have seen In our experience on the ground. ‘
Mr. Trump’s plan to alleviate Gaza’s humanitarian crisis seems to be an increase in the number of distribution sites for the foundation and the willingness to allow an increased stream of UN and international organizational help to Gaza, provided that they collaborate with the foundation.
Certainly, there is sufficient fault to go around with most players, including Israel, Hamas and the United States, who prioritize political goals instead of measures that would save lives and alleviate suffering.
Make things worse, it is unlikely that the US $ 60 million Mr. Trump says that he has assigned to Gazan’s access to food, is nowhere close to what would be necessary to expand the foundation’s distribution network to match what the UN has to offer.
Financing is not the only problem with Mr Trump’s approach.
To begin with, the Israel approach enables to continue smothering help, even if it could enter more essential goods in the strip. On average, Israel recently granted permission for 70 auxiliary cars per day To provide help instead of the 5-600 needed.
Despite the gentlemen Trump and Netanyahu’s claims of the opposite, Hamas is just one of the perpetrators responsible for looting auxiliary voyages that come in Gaza. So are one
Shady Israelically supported group Under the leadership of Yasser Abu Shabab and ordinary Palestinians, desperately looking for food and afraid to be killed on distribution sites.
Given the fragile security situation, it is difficult to see how the foundation can expand its network without Israel popping up its support in Gaza and/or a greater involvement of problematic American security personnel.
That is what Mr. Trump does not prevent it from sproming that food distribution points would be sites “where people can walk in and no limits; We’re not going to have fences. “
Mr. Trump’s focus on food comes against the background of the stumbling diplomatic commitments of his administration of his administration, including stuck Gaza Stleesfire and Iran Nuclear negotiations, failed efforts to free the Hamas-acted hostages, Libanon’s inability. The efforts of Ahmed al-Sharaa to keep Syria united.
Adding Mr Trump’s setbacks is a Groundswell of rare criticism of Israel from his support base, including segments of the Make America Great Again of America First Crowd and Republican foreign policy shawks, for whom the support of Israël was a religious article.
‘My people are starting to hate Israel“Mr Trump reportedly told a prominent Jewish campaignonor.
In a sign of The Times, Marjorie Taylor Greene emerged as the first Republican legislator who labels Israeli actions in Gaza as a ‘genocide’.
“It is the most truthful and easiest to say that October 7 was horrible in Israel and all hostages should be returned, But that’s how the genocide isHumanitarian crisis and hunger that take place in Gaza, “said Mrs. Taylor Greene on X.
The increasing criticism of non-concrete segments of Mr Trump’s support base is the newest Gallup Poll showed a decrease of ten percentage to 32 percent in the approval of Americans of Israel’s military action in Gaza compared to last year. It was the lowest reading since Gallup first asked the question in November 2023.
Sixty percent of the respondents rejected Israeli actions. Democrats and Independents were good for the shift.
Seventy-one percent of Republicans, despite the increasing criticism among Trump supporters, expressed support for Israel, an increase of five percent since last year’s Gallup survey.
A separate CNN survey produced grimly different figures. The poll suggested that the Republican support for Israel had fallen from 68 percent in October 2023 to 52 percent in the last survey, with only 23 percent of Americans who prefer Israeli actions, a decrease of 27 percent compared to almost two years ago.
Steve Bannon, a former Trump consultant and influential expert known for his sense of sentiment among the supporters of the president, claimed that for ‘the under-30-year-old Maga Base, Israel has almost no supportAnd the attempt by Netanyahu to save herself politically by dragging America deeper to another war in the middle, has eliminated a large number of older Maga Diehards. “
For many among the conservative gene generation, Israel is little more than another ally who benefits from the American generosity. Their image is not the Holocaust, but the destruction of Gaza and Israeli Jewish attacks on Christians.
This week, conservative radio presenter Megyn Kelly warned, “Israel, whether it realizes or not, has made itself the villain of the world by allowing this thing to continue for so long. They have Lost support with their sweetest friends. ”
Dr. James M. Dorsey is an additional senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University, and the author of the syndicated column and podcast, The turbulent world with James M. Dorsey.
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