What Should We Make of President Trump’s Middle East Negotiations That Leave Out Israel?

President Donald Trump singlehandedly reshaped American Middle East policy when he decided to go behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s back and negotiate deals with the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia. To most, this may seem insignificant, but remember that the Israeli government has a stranglehold on American politicians through a powerful lobbying force (American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, for example). This foreign government has moved the United States closer to war with Iran over the years (as well as other countries in the region) and pressured American leaders to violate the First Amendment and censor free speech on its behalf, and in reality, our “greatest ally” has done nothing for us except manipulate us at every turn and purchase our politicians for its agenda (even killing our military members during the USS Liberty false flag attack and perhaps participating, along with several other parties, in the September 11, 2001 attack). Kudos to Trump for bucking the status quo and doing what is in the interest of the American people over those of the Israeli government, and we can hope that this is genuine and not some sort of theatrical ploy for some deeper agenda that elements of the Israeli government are actually behind.

Despite the Houthis missile striking Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport and Israel retaliating by hitting Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport, President Trump was able to negotiate a deal (through Oman) with the Houthis to halt the targeting of American military and commercial vessels in exchange for a cessation of airstrikes in Yemen. Of course, the United States military was involved in the campaign against the Houthis on behalf of Israel, so leaving Netanyahu out of the agreement and allowing the Houthis to continue targeting Israeli ships is a huge development in American-Israeli relations. This has the potential to show that the Trump administration is acting independently to rebel against the power of the Israeli lobby and bring peace to the region (something that Israel does not want). Even though the United States provides an astronomical amount of taxpayer dollars on bolstering Israel’s defense, Netanyahu had the audacity to say that Israel does not need the United States and can “defend itself by itself.” I mean, if you want to stop stealing our hard-earned money to bomb other countries into smithereens and become fully independent and responsible for your own actions, sure, do this by all means. Americans can certainly be done with the Israeli welfare system and the entitlement that Netanyahu feels for our support, but we are still a long while from that actually being the case. So, no, Mr. Netanyahu, you are not defending yourself by yourself. You just will not have the backing of American airstrikes against the Houthis.

During the president’s recent Middle East tour, the first stop was Qatar, and despite the petty claims of corruption for accepting from Qatari Emir (King) Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani a Boeing 747 jet (priced at about $400 million) that will be standardized to serve as an Air Force One aircraft (it would only violate the Constitution’s Article I Section 9 Clause 8 if it is a personal gift and the jet is not donated to the federal government and able to be used by subsequent presidents, and it appears that the Department of Defense is currently in the process of accepting it), negotiating with the kingdom without Israel being involved is actually a large feat. Qatar Airways agreed to purchase 210 Boeing jets for $96 billion, and with this boost to American manufacturing also comes the possibility of Qatar helping to rein in Hamas and reach a deal with Iran (of course, Boeing is part of the BlackRock conglomeration that controls every aspect of Americans’ lives, but hey, baby steps).

The interesting part about this was that Qatar was not required to normalize relations with Israel or denounce Hamas or any other terrorist groups as part of making the economic deal, and the same was true with negotiations related to Saudi Arabia. As part of the $600 billion deal with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MbS for short) partnerships formed between Saudi firms and Google, Uber, Boeing, Amazon, Oracle, Johnson and Johnson, Qualcomm, and other defense contractors; and these investment opportunities included: supplying jets, weapons, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia will become an AI center, adding a large 500-megawatt data center in the kingdom, and Nvidia and Humain will ship 18,000 computer chips to get the operation underway (AI certainly has the potential to harm American citizens and be abused by governments, so we will see what developments there are in the future on this separate front).

Similarly in the UAE, the largest AI data center outside of the United States is planned to be built in Abu Dhabi, and President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ for short) signed a $200 billion investment deal similar to those with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and with the implementation of these agreements, some of the Middle Eastern countries will transform from simply oil-rich nations into technological giants in the global market (a win-win for governments, but perhaps not for citizens of all nations involved). Additionally, securing investment deals in AI with the Arabian Gulf states will help to shut out China and perhaps prevent it from reaching similar deals and far surpassing the United States in such technology (a cold war exists between the two countries, and as they both race to capture as many global partners as possible across the world, tensions may rise).

Although the UAE was already a part of the Abraham Accords negotiated during President Trump’s first term to normalize relations with Israel, no further concessions were necessary this time around. Again, this is a significant event because Israel’s interests are always taken into consideration before making any type of agreement with Arab countries, and during the recent tour, President Trump bypassed Netanyahu and negotiated on behalf of the perceived interests of the United States (though again, these are public-private partnerships that are generally detrimental to American citizens’ interests, and who knows what types of civil liberties violations are on the horizon with the development of AI, but that is not the focus of this particular topic).

President Trump also went over Netanyahu’s head and negotiated the release of the last American hostage taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The deal to get Edan Alexander back showed a couple of things: one being that Netanyahu was not really interested in getting the hostages back because he was stalling, and the second being that the Joe Biden administration could have negotiated with Hamas directly and instead chose to appease Netanyahu and keep with the interests of the Israeli government over those of Americans (Kamala Harris would have likely done the same as Biden). It also appears that the current president is working on a new ceasefire and reopening of border crossings in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade of aid and food (a war crime where Israel’s tactics involve starving Palestinians after their homes are blown away in deliberate bombings, while it pretends to be humanitarians by dropping leaflets telling people that they will be evicted from their homes and where they should be relocated to).

People are speculating whether President Trump intentionally toured the Middle East without making a stop in Israel because of a clash in personalities with Netanyahu, a policy shift in the United States, or theatrics being played out that will fake conflict with Israel but eventually benefit it. Either way, the president suggested that improving relations with Arab neighbors was “good for Israel,” but regardless of whether this is simply performance theater to make some naively believe that the United States is breaking with Israel, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada are prepared to take “concrete actions” against Israel if it does not halt its slaughter and starving of Palestinian people.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emanuel Macron, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have reiterated the importance of Israel changing course in both Gaza and the West Bank (both territories are being destroyed or settled by Israel and prevented from becoming independent nations), and previously, along with the European Union and the Joe Biden administration, they had even gone as far as to place economic sanctions against Israeli organizations that committed violence against the Palestinians in the West Bank and established Israeli settlements illegally in that territory (this Israeli policy is, in effect, an eviction of the Palestinians who were already living on the land and the construction of new Jewish settlements where those people once resided). The foreign ministers of twenty-three countries (including Italy and Germany) have condemned Israel’s actions and argued that it is unacceptable for the Netanyahu regime to block United Nations aid in the form of food and medicine.

Nations may be turning against Israel for its atrocities, but will American politicians who have been blackmailed and lobbied for years by Israeli organizations follow suit? President Trump has taken the surprising steps of negotiating with Arab leaders without Israel being involved, and we can have hope that he is genuinely attempting to bring peace to the Middle East and would like to end the slaughter of Palestinians.

Meanwhile, the Israeli government is completely obliterating the Gaza Strip to the point where people are being moved from location to location as the bombs start dropping and destroying every building in sight. The Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) “Operation Gideon’s Chariot” is underway, destroying thousands of lives in the process, and since October 7, 2023, the Israeli government has displaced 90% of the Gazan population and killed 53,500 Palestinians (in exchange for the 1,200 Israelis that Hamas, not the Gazan people, killed).

The Palestinian people have nothing and no means to defend themselves or obtain supplies necessary to stay alive, and if you have absolutely no sympathy and can still say that Hamas is to blame for every hardship that these people face, you need to either view the images of what is actually happening for yourself and take the time to understand the conflict, or you need to reexamine your heart and moral compass. Regardless of your views, even Netanyahu himself admitted that even the most ardent supporters of Israel (including United States senators who have bowed to Israel for years) would never accept seeing “images of mass famine” in Gaza, and as a result, it appears that Israel is now going to allow a limited amount of supplies into the territory (after an eighty-day blockade that denied thousands of aid trucks from entering and assisting the people who are still stuck there suffering).

It appears that President Trump is losing patience with Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza, and while he attempts to negotiate a new ceasefire in Doha, Qatar (since Israel broke the previous one) and work on a nuclear deal with Iran, American intelligence has picked up evidence that the IDF may be planning to independently attack Iran and destroy its nuclear facilities. If Israel does sabotage any chance of peace, the Trump administration should immediately cut off all aid to Israel and isolate it. Netanyahu can embark on his aggressive “defensive” military operations on his own and without the support of Western backing. Although we cannot really rely on the intelligence agencies to be accurate or tell the American people the truth, this development would seem to fit in with Netanyahu’s goals of continuing the war in Gaza to eventually take control of the territory and push out the natives to make room for Israeli expansion and to drag the United States into a war with Iran so that Israel can dominate the Middle East with little pushback.

Whether President Trump is genuine or acting with his “snub” of Israel, the fact of the matter is that Americans’ perspective on Israel is changing, and this is a good thing. For years, we were labelled as antisemitic or extremists for challenging the actions of a secular and foreign nation that had a stranglehold on our politicians, but the tide is turning. Even if you do believe that the modern Zionist Israel is God’s chosen nation, do you really think that a merciful and just God would condone genocide against the Palestinian people? Break away from the conditioning and think outside of the pro-Israeli propaganda. Wake up to reality, and free yourself from the spell that has been cast by the AIPAC witches.

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