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The Musky waft coming off the Trump Card is Yahu-ing down the corridors of power. This U.S. administration is alarming to the sane, the reasonable and the humanitarian within only weeks in power. So what dystopian world are we looking at in four year’s time with this megalomaniacal, vengeful infant and his greedy cronies? Trump decried the ‘elites’ prior to getting his grubby hands on the talking stick; they were to blame for all of America’s ills, apparently. He was going to drain the swamp. What he didn’t tell the voters was that he was going to exchange the swamp for a festering quagmire of hate and revenge. The ‘elite’ story is different now that Trump has the stick firmly in his hands and is surrounded by the ultimate elite: the richest man on earth. Good luck America, this is what the majority voted for. Put your crash helmets on and take a seat, it’s going to get bumpy for you and the rest of the world. But hey, Make America Great Again! Or should MAGA mean Monstrous Avarice Goes Apeshit.
History tells us that hate, racism and greed never ends well. Nor does Fascism. Where there is injustice, there is war and resistance to that injustice. Israel is being rewarded like victors with the green light from Trump to take what is not legally theirs – Gaza. Gaza has been demolished but the land is apparently of greater value than humans. Nowhere else in the world would war criminals be rewarded by the most powerful nation on earth for the grievous harm they’ve caused to two million vulnerable people and having killed 46,000+. Within that shocking number is 18,000 children. It’s like being in a surreal world where evil is rewarded and human rights obliterated.
Trump wants the U.S. to ‘take over Gaza’ and ‘own it long-term’. Hypothetically, when the U.S. and Israeli bulldozers and land clearing machinery start to rev up their engines for a ‘Second Florida’, they will unearth thousands and thousands of bones, body parts and flesh that have been buried under Israeli and U.S. bombs. A veritable graveyard.
But for anyone who has been watching the nightmare of the attempted genocide of the Palestinians from their homeland, it should be no surprise that those at the top of Israeli and U.S. governments have been plotting and scheming behind closed doors to take away Palestinian human rights, freedom, their homes, the right to safety and the right to their land. The people of Gaza are not illegal immigrants to be shoved off to wherever Trump and his heartless cronies can think of. Perhaps the moon is not far enough in the mind of Zionists to rid themselves of the pesky Palestinians who had no part in the genocide of the Jews in WWII yet are paying the price.
I have bleated repeatedly that the moment Trump seizes power he will attempt to give Gaza to his buddy Netanyahu and has probably asked for the juiciest, prime piece of the Gaza strip to be kept aside for him and his family to build a beautiful Mediterranean villa: yacht mooring optional. ‘Mazel tov, Mr President!’ Genocide is not a real estate opportunity nor the “art of the deal” for the rich and settler-colonialists.
But! It ain’t happening. The world must (and will) step in. I have also bleated repeatedly that if we let this gross, colossal injustice slip by, and people on the other side of the world are treated so unjustly, then who’s next? The bloke down the road who owns a house that you quite admire and would like to steal when he goes on holiday? Or perhaps the weakest member of society who wouldn’t notice their savings being confiscated. When vulnerable people are not protected, none of us are.
We must stop this madness before it becomes a common occurrence when those who are powerless are trodden on, stamped out and considered to be sub-human. I think the term used was ‘human animals’. Trump also labelled his voters as ‘basement dwellers’. Beware the sneaky fascism rising like a ghastly reminder of times past.
The likes of Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and all others who strongly believe they are more important, more worthy of wealth and safety and more human, must be curtailed, controlled or at least managed by those around them to put guard rails, safety off ramps and boundaries that these elites are not prepared to put in place for themselves. Surely there’s people immediately around Trump who are looking askance at his fiery invective. Surely there’s people around him who have morals and ethics. Surely.
Perhaps America is going down, but they will take the rest of the world with them if someone doesn’t step up and challenge the bullies, the oppressors and the financially very powerful. Musk is even more dangerous because he is unelected and therefor unaccountable.
As the Danish politician, Anders Vistisen, so succinctly told Mr. Trump, “Greenland is not for sale.” Neither is Gaza, the West Bank, the Palestinians or any other region or peoples. Those days are over where settler-colonialism is tolerated and people can be bought and sold. Mr. Trump, you’ll just have to forego subsuming Canada into your borders, Panama into your shipping needs and Gaza into your Mediterranean holiday plans.
When Trump said he would bring peace to the Middle East, he was fooling no one he meant peace for the Palestinians. It has been patently clear from the moment he moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem which side he was on.
There’s a horrifying déjà vu lurking on the horizon where the minority and the vulnerable are being singled out for cruelty and obliteration. History is shouting out a lesson we’d be wise to heed.
