US President Donald Trump has arrived in the Middle East at the beginning of a regional tour starting from Saudi Arabia, and later includes the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
This visit is accompanied by huge investment pledges from the three Gulf countries in areas that extend from artificial intelligence to energy, mining, heavy industries, and others.
In the background of this visit, questions arise about the intersection of personal political and economic interests, especially since the Trump organization owns and runs real estate and commercial projects in the three countries covered by the visit. This restores to the forefront the ongoing controversy over the limits of separating the public job and special interests in the Trump administration.
However, one country is remarkably absent from the regional round schedule, although it is considered the “loyal friend” of the United States in the Middle East, Israel, which has been implemented for 19 months genocide in the Gaza Strip, with tremendous support from American money and weapons. The number of Palestinian martyrs, according to official figures, has reached about 53,000, and the number is still in escalation.
Although the genocide began during the era of his predecessor, President Joe Biden, Trump did not hesitate to adopt this mass killing as well, as he announced shortly after his return to power that he would “send to Israel everything he needs to end the mission” in Gaza.
However, it appears that Israel takes longer than the US President desires, especially since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called for an escalation of the attack on the sector, which has become largely destroyed.
The problem, of course, is not that Trump cares about whether Palestinian children and adults are hunger and bombing, while Israel takes its time to “end the mission”, but that the ongoing genocide is simply hindering his vision of what it calls “Rivera Middle East”, which is supposed to stem from the ruins of Gaza, a project that clarified its features by saying: “The United States will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a wonderful job there. We will own it “.
While the war may have commercial benefits – only ask the arms industry – it seems that excessive war may be an ultimately improper investment, at least from Trump’s real estate perspective.
In the period before the Trump tour in the Middle East, reports have increased tensions between the American President and the Israeli Prime Minister – and not only in relation to Gaza. “NBC News” reported on Sunday that Netanyahu “was very surprised – and angry – last week from Trump’s announcement that the United States had stopped its military campaign against Iran -backed Houthis in Yemen.”
What seems to be more an apparently disturbing Netanyahu is Trump’s refusal to support military strikes against Iran.
In addition, the United States, according to reports, abandoned the demand to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel as a condition for Washington’s support for the Kingdom’s civil nuclear program.
So what does the tense relationship between Trump and Netanyahu mean for the so -called “special relationship” between the United States and Israel?
According to an article published by the Israeli website “Wint News”: “Despite the tensions, Israeli officials insist that coordination behind the scenes with the Trump administration remain close, without any actual political dispute.”
The readers reassured that the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Hakapi, “denied rumors that Trump may announce support for a Palestinian state during his visit to the three Gulf countries.”
Of course, it is completely clear what the type of “Palestinian state” that a person can propose to the United States has the Gaza Strip and expel the indigenous Palestinian population.
Despite the marginalization of Israel on this tour, this does not mean that it will not continue to play a basic role in American hostile behavior in general.
Only last month, Israeli National Security Minister officials, Itetar bin Ghafir – hosted the famous saying: “There is no reason to introduce one gram of food or aid to Gaza” – at Trump’s Maralago resort in Florida.
After a dinner held in his honor, Ben Ghaffir boasted that the Republicans “expressed their support for my very clear position on how to behave in Gaza, and that food and aid stores should be bombed.”
Accordingly, while the media headlines are busy with major deals and diplomatic entitlements, it can be said that the Trump administration is still continuing to deal with field developments in Gaza from a perspective that serves its strategic priorities, even if this seems to be overlooked by clear Israeli violations.
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