US President Donald Trump descends Tuesday in the Middle East for a regional tour that will start in Saudi Arabia and will include stops in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. This is a business trip in every sense of the word, potentially involving billions of dollars in investment and commercial transactions.
The United Arab Emirates, for example, have already promised 1.4 billion of dollars in investments in the United States over 10 years in sectors ranging from artificial intelligence and energy to mining and aluminum production. Saudi Arabia, for its part, is committed to investing $ 600 billion in the United States over the next four years. According to the Reuters news agency, Trump will also offer the kingdom a package of weapons up to $ 100 billion.
Meanwhile, in accordance with the solid history of the president of nepotism and self-enrichment, it turns out that the Trump organization currently chairs real estate projects and other companies in the three Gulf countries which it should visit.
And yet, a country is visibly absent from the regional itinerary, although it is the long-standing BFF in the United States in the Middle East: Israel, the nation which has been the genocide in the Gaza Strip with the help of American money and weapons for the last 19 months. The official assessment of the Palestinian deaths amounts to nearly 53,000 and account.
Although the genocide began to surveillance of its president of the predecessor Joe Biden, Trump quickly adopted mass slaughter, announcing shortly after reaffirming that he “sent Israel to everything he needs to finish work” in Gaza. However, it seems that Israel takes a little too long for the taste of the American president – in particular now that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prescribed an intensified offensive against an enclave which has already been largely reduced to rubble.
The problem, of course, is not that Trump cares if Palestinian children and adults continue to be massacred and hungry to death while Israel takes his soft time to “finish work”. On the contrary, the current genocide simply hinders its vision of the “riviera of the Middle East” which will not spring the ruins of Gaza, which it described as follows: “The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with that too. We have it. “
Thus, although war is good for business – it is enough to ask the weapon industry – it seems that too much war can ultimately be a counter -productive investment, at least from the point of view of Trumpian real estate.
In view of the Middle East expedition of Trump, reports have been increasingly disseminated tensions between the American president and the Israeli Prime Minister – and not only on the Gaza front. NBC News noted that Netanyahu had been “blinded – and exasperated – last week by Trump’s announcement on Sunday that the United States interrupted its military campaign against the Houthis supported by Iran in Yemen”.
Even more boring for the Israeli Prime Minister, apparently, is Trump’s refusal to have military strikes approved on Iran. In addition, the United States would have rejected the demand that Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel as a condition for American support for the civil nuclear program of the kingdom.
What does the Trump-Nestanyahu report mean for the “special relationship” still so sacred between the United States and Israel? According to an article published by the Israeli point of sale Ynetnews: “Despite tensions, Israeli officials insist that the coordination of behind the scenes with the Trump administration remains close, without real politics.”
The sending to assure readers that the United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee “denied rumors that Trump could announce the support of a Palestinian state during the visit” to the three Gulf nations. Of course, it is not quite clear what type of “Palestinian state” could never be promoted by the man offering the American property of the Gaza Strip and the expulsion of the native Palestinian population.
Although Israel can be sidelined during this trip, this does not mean that it will not continue to serve a key function in general in the United States. Last month, the Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir-a source of the idea that there is “no reason for a gram of food or aid enters Gaza”-was organized by republican officials of the Mar-A-Lago station in Trump in Florida. After a dinner held in his honor, Ben-Gvir boasted that the Republicans had “expressed their support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that food and help deposits should be bombed”.
Aside from the flashy agreements of a dollars Billion, rest assured that the Trump administration remains as committed as ever to capitalize on Israeli atrocities.
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