Let’s say that you are the President of the United States and that the relationship with an important part of your political base has become less than very harmonious. What are you doing?
Well, an option is to organize a summit, accompanied by many brass bands, with the president of Russia, ostensibly in order to end the war of this country in Ukraine.
And it was precisely the maneuver that was drawn by American president Donald Trump, who deployed the red carpet in Alaska on Friday for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The short -term meeting was finally anti -limatic, Trump offering the incisive assessment that “there is no agreement before there is an agreement”.
Fox News reported that Trump had evaluated the eagerly awaited meeting with Putin one “10” in 10 and that he “particularly appreciated the Russian president’s comments when he said he would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump had won the 2020 presidency”.
Fox added that none of the two heads of state had taken the trouble to specify the “reasoning behind these comments”.
Be that as it may, non-deal talks constituted a practical distraction of current intra-maga conflicts, which owe some factors. There is, for example, the question of the files relating to the late Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and sexual offender who died in prison in 2019.
When the American prosecutor Pam Bondi informed Trump in May about the examination of the content of the Ministry of Justice on the content of the so-called “Epstein files”, she would have informed the president that her name had appeared there.
Despite his commitment to the campaign track to declass the Epstein files, Trump changed his adequacy earlier this year and rejected the investigation as a “hoax”. He went so far as to insult many of his Republican disciples as “stupid” and “stupid” for continuing to insist that Epstein’s details were published.
On July 12, the president went to social networks with his signature preference for manic capitalization in order to reprimand those who demanded declassification: “We have perfect administration, the speech of the world and” selfish people “try to hurt him, everywhere in a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein.”
And yet, it is not the only headache in the face of the “perfect administration” of the Maga’s base of Trump, many of which have become vocally critical of the Israel genocide in the Gaza Strip, that Trump persists in helping and encouraging.
The genocide, which will mark its two -year birthday in October, has officially killed nearly 62,000 Palestinians so far – although the real number of deaths is undoubtedly much higher. Apparently, Israel’s behavior was entirely acceptable for a large part of the American political establishment when it was simply in endless massacres, felled and mutilated babies, bombed hospitals and shaved neighborhoods.
Now that mass famine has been visibly added to the genocidal mixture, Israel seems to have crossed a red line even among the old faithful. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the number of deaths of malnutrition reached 251, including 108 children. Images of skeletal Palestinians have flooded the Internet and the United Nations World Food Program classified the food shortage in Gaza as “catastrophic”.
In addition, according to the UN, the Israeli soldiers have killed at least 1,760 Palestinians since the end of May only, when they asked for help, including on sites managed by the harmful the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Supported by the United States and Israel, the GHF not only served Israel’s plans for mass movement and the forced expulsion of the Palestinians; The aid distribution hubs also worked as a kind of one -stop shop for blind death – which, after all, is all the interest of the genocide.
And while Trump reprimanded the Israeli Prime Minister of Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu on the unpleasant perspective of the whole show, it was not enough to appease the presentations of people like the right -wing US Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene, a traditional ally of all the president known for his anticics such as the port of hats with the words “Trump was right!”
In an article on social networks last month, Greene – a large -scale figure of the Mag of Trump movement – was unexpectedly explicit in its condemnation of “genocide, the humanitarian crisis and the famine that occurs in Gaza”. Other Lights of Maga such as the far -right influencer Laura Loomer – a self -defined “proud Islamophobic” and a sociopath in good faith – have not waste time responding to the Greene post: “There is no genocide in Gaza.”
Be that as it may, political tensions and intestine struggles were at least temporarily far from the spotlight by the extravagance Trump-Putin in Alaska. This is not the first time that the old art of distraction has been useful – Trump’s friend Netanyahu is the master of this job. His commitment to carrying out the genocide in Gaza has more than a little to do with his desire to ward off the domestic opposition and to avoid treating the assorted corruption accusations in which he is currently involved.
And while the Alaska red carpet waterfall has provided little at home, distraction can still prevail while people are thinking about what it was.
The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Tel Aviv Tribune.