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When Donald Trump stood before the Israeli Knesset and declared with his usual bravado, “We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve given a lot to Israel,” he wasn’t talking about peace, he was boasting about war. His words were not a celebration of diplomacy but an open confession of complicity in one of the most devastating humanitarian crimes of our time. It was a moment when the mask slipped, when the language of peace was unmasked as the language of power. And yet, the applause thundered in the hall, the same hall that has witnessed decades of occupation, displacement, and death, as if the killing of children and the destruction of entire cities were the prerequisites for […]
