Jun 4, 2025 10:01 PM
(This post was last modified: Jun 4, 2025 10:12 PM by C C.)
PETER ZEIHAN
https://youtu.be/Wdhop--5E4w
VIDEO EXCERPTS: . . . Donald Trump, entertained Netanyahu at the white House a few weeks ago, and it went horrible, really. [...] Netanyahu came asking for three things.
Number one, he wanted a completely free hand in Gaza to do whatever he wanted. [...] The second thing that Israel wanted was an end to tariffs on them ... that really caught Israel off guard [...] And then, third, Netanyahu wanted to get Trump to bomb Iran into the Stone Age, and do Israel’s work for it.
It didn’t go well. He basically got a firm, loud Trumpian no -- all three. [...] Trump is just done with the entire alliance structure. It’s not just the Germans or the Brits or the Australians. It’s everybody. And that includes Israel.
[...] From Trump’s point of view, the problem appears to be Netanyahu. The way Trump sees the world ... Netanyahu represents everything that Trump looks down on. He came to the White House, and he asked for things. That’s not what winners do. That’s what losers do.
Netanyahu hasn’t been able to clean up Gaza. And it’s been a year and a half. Why is this still going on? [...] there is no good solution for Gaza.
You want to ship the Gazans somewhere else [...] There’s no infrastructure to move them. There’s no place that can take 2 million people in the Middle East anywhere, even including in the rich places. But Israel wants them gone.
And Trump wonders why this hasn’t been settled, on the tariff situation. You know, the Trump view that the world has been ripping off the United States economically: I have no respect for that. That’s just flat out wrong. We basically paid people to be on our sides for the Cold War. So we got something in return. We got security control.
[...] The bottom line is that Netanyahu can’t give Trump anything that he wants. [...] anything that might produce, for example, peace in Gaza. Which is one of the things that Trump campaigned on. [...] by the tenor of the right wing in Israel, Donald Trump is a [peace loving] hippie commie.
[...] the Israelis are going to have to figure out how to function in a world where the United States just doesn’t really care about the Middle East...
What's up In the Middle East: Israel's future ... https://youtu.be/Wdhop--5E4w
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Wdhop--5E4w
https://youtu.be/Wdhop--5E4w
VIDEO EXCERPTS: . . . Donald Trump, entertained Netanyahu at the white House a few weeks ago, and it went horrible, really. [...] Netanyahu came asking for three things.
Number one, he wanted a completely free hand in Gaza to do whatever he wanted. [...] The second thing that Israel wanted was an end to tariffs on them ... that really caught Israel off guard [...] And then, third, Netanyahu wanted to get Trump to bomb Iran into the Stone Age, and do Israel’s work for it.
It didn’t go well. He basically got a firm, loud Trumpian no -- all three. [...] Trump is just done with the entire alliance structure. It’s not just the Germans or the Brits or the Australians. It’s everybody. And that includes Israel.
[...] From Trump’s point of view, the problem appears to be Netanyahu. The way Trump sees the world ... Netanyahu represents everything that Trump looks down on. He came to the White House, and he asked for things. That’s not what winners do. That’s what losers do.
Netanyahu hasn’t been able to clean up Gaza. And it’s been a year and a half. Why is this still going on? [...] there is no good solution for Gaza.
You want to ship the Gazans somewhere else [...] There’s no infrastructure to move them. There’s no place that can take 2 million people in the Middle East anywhere, even including in the rich places. But Israel wants them gone.
And Trump wonders why this hasn’t been settled, on the tariff situation. You know, the Trump view that the world has been ripping off the United States economically: I have no respect for that. That’s just flat out wrong. We basically paid people to be on our sides for the Cold War. So we got something in return. We got security control.
[...] The bottom line is that Netanyahu can’t give Trump anything that he wants. [...] anything that might produce, for example, peace in Gaza. Which is one of the things that Trump campaigned on. [...] by the tenor of the right wing in Israel, Donald Trump is a [peace loving] hippie commie.
[...] the Israelis are going to have to figure out how to function in a world where the United States just doesn’t really care about the Middle East...
What's up In the Middle East: Israel's future ... https://youtu.be/Wdhop--5E4w