Before listening to Trump’s speech to the Knesset, I had no intention to write a summary of another soliloquy that praised Donald Trump. Two Knesset members made the only sensible statement during the oration, by showing their distaste for the utterances and being escorted out of the chamber of horrors. Haim V. Levy, The Times Of Israel, had it right, “In celebrating the release of hostages, Israel’s leaders turned gratitude into spectacle and democracy into theater.” After hearing the twisted, grinded, and mendacious words, I ran to the computer and started pounding the keyboard. The success of Donald Trump in accomplishing a peace negotiation that defied the efforts of others begged to be challenged and placed in proper context. His attacks on truth and departure from reality warranted capture for posterity.
Donald Trump’s negotiation of a Middle East Peace agreement placed in context
Israel’s continuation of the massacre of the Palestinians until their extermination would have been a victory for Israel. Halting the massacre is a victory for Donald Trump — a possible Nobel Peace prize, a place in history, respect from foreign leaders. A shrewd Trump stacked the deck and gave himself all the trump cards.
By not joining government and institution leaders proclaiming either genocide or war crimes, Trump established the United States as Israel’s only hope for military support, economic support, moral support, political support, and escape from criminal indictments. In a few directives, Trump could have had his Department of Injustice, Department of Homeland Security, and intelligence services dismantle the corrupt network of intelligence gathering and mind twisting fellow travelers that Israel has assembled in all regions of the U.S. landmass and at tables of all intuitions. The Secretary of War could be told to deliver the arms, not by delicate transportation, but with explosive might in the center of Israel. Trump gave Netanyahu an offer he could not refuse and the Israeli war criminal wisely agreed.
No world leader or agency could negotiate peace without Trump cooperating and the Trump persona made sure no other person had a chance at establishing peace. Wait, before having peace, we need war. Trump made sure there was plenty of that component by helping Israel wage a one-sided war against a helpless people. It was a Trump war and a Trump peace and not an end to a war; it was an end to resistance to oppression and the beginning of a Trump plan of partial physical displacement and cultural genocide, much less than Israel hoped to obtain.
Departures from reality
Trump’s light banter of demeaning and exalting Israeli opposing politicians ─ Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid ─ affected my equilibrium. He interfered in the political rivalry that neither Israeli leader enjoyed, sparring by joking on a day that required seriousness and respect for those who escaped death and those who faced death. Could not determine who scowled more, Netanyahu or Lapid.
Is this correct? Did Trump say that Israel is more respected now than it was several years ago? Presently, Israel has little respect from the respectful. Means that several years ago, Israel had no respect. Could be true.
When the Triumphant said, “Gazans can now have peace and prosperity,” why didn’t he look at the Knesset members and let them know that Israel denied peace and prosperity to Gazans and constantly destroyed their efforts to achieve both. He followed that remark with a bewildering, (Ed: Paraphrased) “We have ended the war so Israelis can live in peace.” Correction: “We have ended resistance to oppression so another oppression can emerge.” For seven decades, Israel has initiated wars against neighbors to preserve the peace their military interrupted. Except for some minor disturbances in daily life and a few casualties to their citizens, for twenty years, Israel has intermittently waged aggressive wars against defenseless Palestinians in Gaza, not allowing them a moment of peace. In the last two years, Israel escalated its war against the Palestinians, murdering tens of thousands and leaving homeless hundreds of thousands. Almost all Israelis have waged war and almost all have had peace. Few Gazans have waged war and none have had peace.
The saintly real estate magnate slipped in his noble effort to give each religion its share of Jerusalem — “Christians have the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jews have the Western Wall, and Muslims have the Temple Mount.” Muslims have the Temple Mount? Isn’t the Temple Mount Jewish? Isn’t Haram-al-Sharif the proper designation? Was that a purposeful slip or did someone insert other words in the teleprompter?
Ignoring the 87 years of persecution of the Palestinian people, Trump referred to the “1000 years of persecution of the Jewish people,” an accepted terminology that is now being questioned. Similar to disputing the characterization of warranted arguments against Jewish practices and Jewish attachment to genocidal Israel, as anti-Semitism, characterizing warranted arguments against Jewish practices as persecution of Jews throughout history are being viewed from a different perspective.
Until the World War II atrocities, Jews suffered much less discrimination than other minorities, many of whom, such as the Cathars, Carthaginians, Hereros, Aborigines, and hundreds of tribes in the Americas, Africa and Asia have been almost completely wiped out and are not available to testify to the persecutions. Much of what is labelled persecution is discrimination against a minority (Jews in this case) driven by economic, cultural, and social rivalries, suspicions, or just being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. We hear of attacks on Jews and never learn what provoked the attacks — landlords of large estates, where peasants labored for subsistence wages, tax collectors for princes that aroused animosity, and control of gambling, prostitution, liquor, and money lending. The latter generated activities that pauperized peasants and enabled wealthy Jews to expand into vertical combinations, purchase of raw materials, which were used in manufacturing of finished goods, and shipped to markets for sales by other Jews. The cooperative actions between Jews lowered prices, disadvantaged local commerce and angered local shopkeepers. The numbers of Jews who are harmed are exaggerated and publicized. No reference is made to those harmed on the competing side.
The relations between Jews and their neighbors throughout history, of which there is little authenticated history, might be similar to the relations Israel has with its neighbors ─ never compromising, gaining advantage by illicit activities, using the advantage to subdue opponents, and not considering the damaging effects on others. Hamas’ October 7 attack was brutal and deserves criticism but was provoked by decades of oppression that had passed a “boiling point.” Attacks on Jews throughout history might have followed a similar pattern ─ brutal and deserving criticism but provoked by decades of Jews regarding others as hindrances and taking unfair advantage until populations reached a “boiling point.”
Trump insulted the American public with his usual display of ill manners and inability to distinguish between right and wrong. He cited audience member Miriam Adelson, whose multimillion contributions to his campaigns can be seen as a bribe to support Israel, praised the gambling casino entrepreneur for her dedication to Israel and made the embarrassing statement, “She may love Israel more than the United States.” Is that a praiseworthy American citizen, a person who loves a foreign nation more than her own nation, and acts as an unregistered lobbyist for that nation? Trump disclosed that Ms. Adelson would call him, he would answer, and she would come to the White House and ask him to recognize Israel’s incorporation of the Golan Heights into Greater Israel. Now we know how American foreign policy is formulated.
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s totally inexperienced special envoy to the Middle East, who spent almost his entire life in real estate ventures, was another audience member receiving praise from Trump. Witkoff deserved praise for his efforts but behind his efforts is a murky and possible self-serving purpose. Steve Witkoff owes much to the Qatari government, a financial and moral supporter of the Palestinians.
The New York Times, “Where Mideast Envoy Pitched Peace, His Son Pitched Investors,” By Debra Kamin and Bradley Hope, updated Oct. 5, 2025, details how the Qatari government sought favor with the first Trump administration by forming close relationships with Trump confidantes, including Witkoff. The Qatari Investment Authority was the third-largest shareholder in Apollo, a publicly traded real estate financing trust, that “partnered with the Witkoff Group in developing The Brook, a luxury Brooklyn rental building that opened its doors this summer.”
In 2023, the Qatar Investment Authority agreed to buy the Park Lane for $623 million, permitting Witkoff and partners to repay loans they had on the Park Lane and could not repay. Witkoff escaped unscathed from a desperate financial moment.
In spring, 2025, Alex Witkoff’s son, Alex, “approached Qatar and other major investors, asking them to put money into his planned multibillion-dollar fund. In meetings and in a fund-raising document reviewed by The Times, Alex Witkoff said the so-called Special Situations Real Estate Credit Fund would focus on investments in the Sun Belt and other regions with a shortage of affordable housing.”
Upon introducing and praising Steve Witkoff, Trump displayed his usual sarcastic and deprecating attitude and mentioned that he had sent Witkoff, whom he stated he knew had no knowledge, credentials, or diplomatic experience in Russian affairs, to meet Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and discuss the perilous war in Ukraine. We know details of the 5-hour meeting but do not know if the discussion considered a new Trump hotel to be built in Moscow. Although he lacks formal training in diplomacy, Steve Witkoff has “conducted key meetings in ways that breached standard diplomatic protocol, raising concerns about the accuracy, trustworthiness, and effectiveness of such engagements.” Now we know how American foreign policy is formulated.
The most reprehensible and insidious remark of the reprehensible and insidious speech characterized Hamas as having been responsible for the violence in the Middle East and its termination bringing an end to terrorism. Trump envisioned “a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.” By that, he must mean getting rid of Israel. Other than Israel, who has Hamas threatened or attacked in the Middle East? Who has Israel and the United States together not attacked? Didn’t animosity to Israel and the United States play key roles in the formation of al-Qaeda and the rise of ISIS?
The Zionist controlled media portrays Hamas as an incompetent terrorist organization. In honest reporting, Hamas has engaged in resistance and retribution to the daily terrorist attacks by Israel upon the Palestinians. Despite the constant wars, blockades, and daily harassment by Israel military, Hamas created a satisfactory environment for the Gazan people it educated, complete with universities, schools, sport arenas, cultural centers, residential complexes, and means to relax and be entertained, all destroyed by the most terrifying nation in the world.
Included in the speech to the Knesset were repeat from all Trump’s speeches — the United States is the strongest and richest country in the world, President Biden and President Obama were the worst presidents in U.S. history, and he is personally responsible for eliminating ISIS, making America great, and stopping all the unstoppable wars in the present century. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
The Future
Political pundits engage in sophistry, predicting the next phase of the war against Gaza that was not stopped until Gaza was totally destroyed and the Gazans had nowhere to be buried. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (TWI), a pro-Israel think tank, recommends.
…beyond removing Hamas from power, postwar programming in Gaza should focus on disengagement rather than deradicalization—that is, creating a reality in which returning to violence is no longer in the interest of those who previously engaged in it. To succeed, such efforts must be led by local actors who bring a new and distinct agenda—a viable alternative to Hamas—and must include significant investment in socioeconomic recovery, institutional reform, and a clear political path that offers genuine hope for the future.
Experiences from partial successes in disengagement—whether from Nazism or violent Islamism—underscore the need for a multilayered approach that goes beyond targeting individual extremists to address the broader social, political, and communal ecosystems in which radicalization takes root.
I recommend that TWI stop being a shill for Israel and state reality. Trump will try to reshape Gaza in his image, giving Gazans the luxury hotels, golf courses, and Starbucks cafes the Gazans desperately need.
Israel’s racist and genocidal government will do everything to stall Trump’s plans of keeping Gazans in Gaza. Zionist Jews do not reward anyone for what they did yesterday to help the Zionist cause. Their criterion for approval is, “What are you going to do for us today?” Lackey Trump has fulfilled his role and is no longer needed. Stall and stall until the next election and get another lackey for president who preaches Israel above all. Place the bet on Secretary of State Marc Rubio.
A low-level genocide of the Palestinians will continue for a few years and then… the final blow.
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