Trump and Harris are hand in hand with the Zionist entity

In the recent debate between the two US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, a former president and current vice president respectively, the two competed to show their extreme loyalty to the Zionist entity and their unlimited political, military, economic and logistical support for it in its war against the Palestinians in Gaza. They are hand in hand with the Zionist state of Israel. They both believe that it is fighting a legitimate war in self-defence and is threatened by terrorist organisations. Neither could ever bring themselves to say that Hamas is a legitimate, anti-occupation, resistance movement.

As they raced to flatter and flirt with the Zionist entity, Trump saw an opportunity to defeat Harris and win some more Zionist Brownie points. When Harris announced her Democratic Party’s commitment to the two-state solution and the need to end the war on Gaza immediately and rebuild it, Trump shouted that she hates Israel and, “If she is president, I believe Israel will not exist within two years from now.”

Trump, of course, was the first US president to recognise Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel, and the first to dare to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem in a major breach of international law. He also recognised the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of the apartheid state. And it was Trump who came up with the so-called “Deal of the Century”. The former president thus came into the debate with a lot of credits in service of the Zionist entity.

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Trump’s comment that Israel will not exist within two years if Harris wins in November came out spontaneously, but it carries within it fears of the magnitude of the challenges facing the Zionist entity in Palestine and the Middle East. It lost the opportunity to integrate into the Arab world after the Hamas-led Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and is instead facing ever-deepening isolation from the Arab nations. The Arab world is also at a critical juncture, especially those regimes that have normalised relations with Israel, as they are trying to defuse the anger across the Arab world by adopting positions in support of the Palestinians and calling for an end to the war on Gaza.

Some see Trump’s statement as surreal, but it expresses the extent of the fragility of the Zionist entity in his subconscious, due to the Palestinian resistance and its achievements in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, as well as the losses suffered by the Zionist occupation forces.

It’s clear that Trump wanted to emphasise that Israel’s survival is dependent on the support of the US.

And that it will disappear if the next administration does not improve its already unquestioned support. This indicates how inferior the Zionist entity is viewed, as well as the extent of the economic, security and social challenges it faces.

I have said before that 7 October was a turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that what comes after is not like what has come before. Events have proven the truth of this statement, as the war approaches its first anniversary without Israel achieving its declared goals. This is due to the steadfastness of the Palestinians and their sacrifices, as well as the perseverance of the resistance groups who continue to fight with the same strength and steadfastness and have not lost their faith in the justice of their cause. This model of resistance has astonished the entire world, with people wondering about the hidden power that gives the Palestinians the ability to remain resourceful and challenge one of the most powerful armed forces in modern times.

Gaza has become a nationalist and Islamic icon.

Its humanitarian and faith-based values stand in stark contrast to the cruelty, brutality and racism of the Zionist entity. This is what generations of young people searching for their sense of self and their future will adopt as a role model, as it will give hope to nations yearning for freedom and dignity.

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The commitment of Trump and Harris to the security of the Zionist entity and its “right” to defend itself (as if genocide can possibly be conceived of as self-defence), while an old tradition in American politics, is different this time in terms of its essence. Over the past seven decades, Washington has relied on Israel’s exceptional strength as a strategic ally that can be relied upon in difficult and complex times in the Middle East. Now, however, the strategic weaknesses of the Zionist entity have been exposed, especially its inability to defend itself without a constant flow of military support and backup from the US and its Western allies. These weaknesses have been exposed for the past eleven months in the war planned and carried out by Israel with full US backing. The occupation state, despite its strategic importance to Washington, has become more of a costly liability than ever before for the US. The flow of arms and money from Washington to Israel will turn into a deep wound that may not heal in the American body politic.

How much longer will US voters accept that billions of dollars of their tax money is sent to an alien state while millions of their fellow citizens have no homes, healthcare or jobs?

Trump’s policies, of course, are populist and tap into the growing extreme right-wing trends around the world. Despite the great disappointment that the Palestinians feel about the Biden Democratic administration, the differences in policies between the two will be significant. Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his neo-fascist ministers continue their war against Gaza and Lebanon in the hope of Trump becoming president of the US once again. He is even more far-right and racist than they are and is the biggest supporter of the extreme right in Europe and elsewhere with its anti-Arab, anti-Muslim agenda.

Harris did not fall short in her declarations of support for the Zionist entity, but she may be the lesser of two evils for the Palestinians, as she may be able to curb the extremism of the European far right. This is something that the Arabs and Muslims in the US and Europe should consider, as the knock-on effects of the Israel-Palestine issue could have a serious impact on them.

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