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Based on his first term in office, many analysts projected that Donald Trump’s return to the White House would augur ill for the Arab world in general and the Palestinians in particular. They were not let down by the new president. Not only did he break his pledge to end the war in Gaza within days, but he also made choices that prolonged the war: furnishing Israel with powerful bombs that his predecessor had prohibited and encouraging Netanyahu to escalate the war in order to expel the Gazans, in line with his absurd idea of clearing Gaza of its more than two million residents in order to transform it into a seven-star Riviera. By employing confused and pointless rhetoric, Trump […]
