Trump muses on ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza Michael F. Brown Power Suits 30 January 2025 President Donald Trump with hands upraised at podium with man and American flag in background President Donald Trump frequently makes statements without sufficient facts or thinking through the consequences. Bonnie Cash UPI Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been issued with an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes, will likely visit President Donald Trump at the White House as soon as next week. Whether Netanyahu will discuss Trump’s recent musings on ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip or focus on Iran and expanding the Abraham Accords remains to be seen. On Saturday on board Air Force One, Trump was asked about a call he had earlier in the day with King Abdullah of Jordan. Trump emphasized that the subject of their discussion was Jordan taking more Palestinian refugees. “He really houses, you know, millions of Palestinians, and he does it in a very humane way. And I compliment him on that. But he really – Jordan has done an amazing job of housing largely Palestinians. And he’s done it in a very successful way.” Trump added, “I said to him, ‘I’d love you to take on more.’ Because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.” The president also noted he’d like “Egypt to take people” and would talk the following day with Egyptian President Abdulfattah al-Sisi. Egyptian media reported Tuesday there has not been a discussion between the two leaders. Trump then spoke specifics about removing some three quarters of Gaza’s population, though it wasn’t entirely clear if he thought he was talking about the entire population. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing.” Winging it, he acknowledged ignorance. “And I don’t know. It’s something [that] has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything is demolished, and people are dying there. So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change.” Asked if this would be temporary, Trump responded, “It could be temporarily, could be long term.” Rather than asking the obvious question about ethnic cleansing, the next journalist then pivoted to artificial intelligence. Later, the conversation did return to Trump releasing to Israel 2,000-pound bombs paused by the Biden administration. Asked why, Trump said, “Because they bought them.” There was no discussion about how Israel had previously used those bombs against Palestinian men, women and children in their homes to deadly effect. This is not an adversarial press, but one that too readily concedes ground rather than challenges Trump on ethnic cleansing and American allies using American weaponry to commit serious human rights violations, including genocide. Trump’s casual talk of ethnic cleansing received quick support from former Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who euphemistically refers to it as Palestinians leaving on a “voluntary” basis. Ben-Gvir tweeted: “I commend US President Trump for the initiative to transfer residents from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt. One of our demands from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to promote voluntary emigration. When the president of the world’s greatest superpower, Trump, personally brings up this idea, it is worth the Israeli government implementing it – promote emigration now!” Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich also took up the ethnic cleansing idea, though he did not mention Trump in his tweet. “After 76 years in which most of the population of Gaza was held by force under harsh conditions to maintain the ambition to destroy the state of Israel, the idea of ​​helping them find other places to start a new, good life is a great idea. After years of sanctifying terror, they will be able to establish a new, good life elsewhere.” Smotrich did cite Trump while speaking to journalists about developing an “operational plan” to turn the president’s words into reality. He claimed: “There is nothing to be excited about the weak opposition of Egypt and Jordan to the plan. We saw yesterday how Trump [imposed his will on] Colombia to deport immigrants despite its opposition. When he wants it, it happens.” Unsurprisingly, as Smotrich indicates, both Jordanian and Egyptian officials reject Trump’s rhetorical broadside. Alarmingly, CNN reports that “Amit Segal, an analyst with Israeli network Channel 12 News, cited Israeli officials and reported Trump’s move was ‘not a slip of the tongue but part of a much broader move than it seems, coordinated with Israel.’” If Segal’s claim is true, this is something to watch closely in the weeks ahead and at the Trump-Netanyahu meeting next week. Even before the inauguration, an official in the presidential transition also raised Indonesia as one of the locations to which Palestinians could be moved – meaning ethnically cleansed. In response to a question from The Electronic Intifada asking why Trump wants Palestinians to go to Jordan and Egypt rather than to homes and lands in Israel that they were expelled from in 1948, a State Department spokesperson in bold letters responded: “We aren’t going to comment on the president’s comments. We refer you to the White House.” It’s noteworthy the State Department is already so hollowed out by Trump that it can’t even reject ethnic cleansing. Of course, Biden’s State Department was similarly inept, even cruel, when questioned about its policies toward Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. Al Mezan, a human rights group in Gaza, also raised the right of return rather than ethnic cleansing. “Instead of advancing or supporting actions that blatantly breach international law, the international community must commit to its enforcement by ensuring the realization of the inalienable right of Palestinian refugees – who form over 70 percent of Gaza’s total population – to return to their ancestral homes and lands from which they were forcibly expelled in 1948 by Zionist militias and the Israeli military.” The human rights organization welcomed “the statements made by Jordan, Egypt, the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which firmly reject any proposals or calls for the forcible transfer of Palestinians from Gaza.” With Palestinians being denied movement north the day of Trump’s remarks, I harbored profound concerns about the plans of Trump and Netanyahu. But Palestinians moved north on Monday amid remarkable scenes of resilience and celebration, even as many knew they were likely to find ruins – courtesy of Netanyahu and President Joe Biden – where once their houses had stood. Mitchell Plitnick at Mondoweiss points out that Trump may view Gaza as a “massive real estate swindle.” Trump’s ambiguous words earlier in the month – “some beautiful things can be done with [Gaza]” – certainly hint at that possibility and the return of illegal settlements. Admittedly, this is reading the worst fears into his comments based on his settler-colonial inclinations as demonstrated in his first term with his colonizing actions on the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Palestinians going north would seemingly allay those concerns, but Trump is anything but consistent, veering wildly from idea to idea. Trump, it bears repeating, often voices the views of those he’s most recently heard from on a subject. This raises the concern that Trump is getting wretched advice. For the moment, however, it seems Trump – who is now closely associated with the ceasefire – may make sickening comments, but still want to see at least the first stage of the ceasefire succeed. Indeed, Trump repeated his remarks on Monday, again aboard Air Force One. He maintained that he would “like to get [Palestinians from Gaza] living in an area where they can live without disruption and revolution and violence so much.” Trump also noted, “When you look at the Gaza Strip, it’s been hell for so many years.” Then, weakly attempting to demonstrate his grasp of Gaza’s history though without saying a word about the 1948 Nakba and dispossession of Palestinians to Gaza, he said: “There have been various civilizations on that strip. It didn’t start here. It started thousands of years before, and there’s always been violence associated with it. You could get people living in areas that are a lot safer and maybe a lot better and maybe a lot more comfortable.” Repeating standard American government racism about the region, Trump added: “I wish [al-Sisi] would take some. We helped them a lot, and I’m sure he’d help us. He’s a friend of mine. He’s in … a rough neighbourhood. But I think he would do it, and I think the king of Jordan would do it too.” Even as Palestinians continue to move north, Trump’s willingness to repeat the threat is alarming as other leaders have buckled to the president’s threats previously. Ethnic cleansing, however, is on a whole different scale. Senator Bernie Sanders did take the president to task and name Trump’s words appropriately. “There is a name for this – ethnic cleansing – and it’s a war crime,” Sanders tweeted. Unwinding the ceasefire, as Ben-Gvir and Smotrich want, and forcing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians south again – and perhaps into Egypt – might surpass the viciousness of the past 15 months. Yet Palestinian determination to remain rooted to the land and return to northern Gaza has, for now, carried the day. Déjà vu There was a lot of rightful teeth-gnashing over the callous way Trump engaged with the idea of ethnic cleansing against a people that already endured the 1948 Nakba, but it certainly has a recent precedent. The Biden administration also entertained the idea, just minus the rough edges of Trump. As Trump has, the Biden administration faced similar regional pushback. Less than a week into the onslaught, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to fly to Israel, a journalist questioned him on the tarmac about “civilian safe passage” to Egypt. That exchange is worth citing in full. Journalist: “Mr Secretary, yesterday, [Biden’s national security adviser] Jake Sullivan said that US officials were talking to the Israelis about getting civilian safe passage through Gaza into Egypt. Today, [White House spokesperson] John Kirby said they’re still talking to officials about this. What is the holdup? What’s the obstacle to getting civilian safe passage out of Gaza?” Blinken: “We are talking about that. We’re talking to Israel about that. We’re talking to Egypt about that. It’s an ongoing conversation. I can’t get into the details. Some of this is needless to say and understandably complicated, but we want to make sure to the best of our ability and I know Israel wants to make sure to the best of its ability that civilians are not harmed. But Israel has to take steps to defend itself. It has to make sure that any ongoing threat is dealt with and I believe it has to make sure that going forward what happened doesn’t happen again.” Journalist: “Is the issue more on the Israeli side?” Blinken: “I’m not going to get into the details, but it’s an ongoing conversation.” Blinken is more refined in his language than the crass Trump, but he’s talking ethnic cleansing – at the very least to Egypt – in his comments. He’s just far too diplomatic to spell it out in all its ugliness. With Blinken working this possibility, it’s clear that Biden was also giving initial support. Yes, the Biden administration did shift away from the idea. And Trump may do the same, effectively moving in that direction with the surge of Palestinian refugees north. Both leaders certainly heard from regional leaders that ethnic cleansing to their countries would be an exceptionally bad and unacceptable idea. What remains different for now is that Biden provided weaponry for a genocide. Trump is providing weapons, but in the midst of a ceasefire. The obvious danger is the 2,000-pound bombs will be employed later. For the moment, however, the president remains invested in a ceasefire that he has bragged about on social media. Trump adhering to the ceasefire remains a positive sign. His promotion of ethnic cleansing, however, even if just rhetoric at the moment, is extremely worrisome for the future, as are the champions of “Judea and Samaria” he is putting forward to represent the US at the United Nations and in Israel. These are warning signals of how quickly Trump could allow the situation in both Gaza and the West Bank to deteriorate. 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Trump Reveals Plan For The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Well that didn’t take long. President Trump has said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. It would also align perfectly with longstanding Israeli agendas to remove Palestinians from their homeland so that their territory can be seized and settled by Jews. Speaking with the press on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he talked to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about taking in large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza, and said he plans to speak with Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about doing the same. “I’d like Egypt to take people and I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump told reporters, saying the Gaza Strip is “a real mess” and “literally a demolition site”. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said. The president said that this new arrangement could be either temporary or long-term, but one would have to be extremely naive to believe that either Israel or Washington plan on emptying out Gaza of its inconvenient population, rebuilding it, and then bringing them all back to shiny new homes. Israel has a very extensive history of grabbing land from Palestinians and then refusing to give it back, which is why there are so-called “refugee camps” for displaced Palestinians that are as old as the state of Israel itself. “Just five days into his second term as president, Trump left no doubt about what his intentions are for Gaza,” Joe Lauria wrote for Consortium News on Trump’s comments, adding, “He tried to present what he was saying as humanitarian concern, but only the most ill-informed person about Gaza would not see that he is talking about committing the crime of forcibly relocating a population.” Trump supporters will no doubt defend his stated plans as a compassionate effort to rescue Palestinians from unfortunate circumstances, because Trump supporters are chowder-brained bootlickers who would defend literally anything their president did. But make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, and would fulfill the darkest desires of the most depraved political factions in Israel. Mere days after the Hamas attack on October 7 2023, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry produced a document proposing the removal of Gaza’s population to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. At around the same time, an Israeli think tank called the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a paper arguing that “There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.” Since that time both the Israeli government and the Israeli media have gotten much less shy about saying that ethnic cleansing is the plan for Gaza. A few weeks ago multiple far-right Knesset members wrote a letter to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz demanding the “complete cleansing” of northern Gaza using siege warfare and attacks on civilians to drive the population out of the area. In November of last year, former Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon stated unequivocally that Israel was indeed in the process of ethnically cleansing Gaza. In October, the Israeli outlet Haaretz published an editorial titled “If It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing, It Probably Is”. https://x.com/Consortiumnews/status/1883407696814288905 One narrative Israel and its apologists like to push is that this forced mass displacement would be “voluntary migration”, which is ridiculous nonsense. Obviously if you make a place completely uninhabitable and refuse to rush massive amounts of aid to them so that they can live, you are forcing them to relocate as surely as if you’d forced them at gunpoint. Giving people the choice to relocate or starve is not giving them a choice at all. Israel’s plan for Gaza once its ethnic cleansing agenda is complete is of course to begin building Jewish settlements there. Last year Israeli forces sparked a minor controversy by sneaking extremist settlement movement leader Daniella Weiss into northern Gaza so that she could scout the land for future use. Back in April a Knesset member named Limor Son Har-Melech stated on Israeli television that there are secret plans within the Israeli government to settle Gaza after military operations are complete. This past November numerous Israeli officials attended an event brazenly titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” just in case you needed it spelled out even more clearly where all this appears to be headed. Trump’s comments help illuminate what he meant when he gushed about all the wonderful things that could be done with Gaza when speaking to the press the other day. “Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location,” he said on Monday. “On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.” It remains to be seen if Jordan and Egypt can be bribed or coerced into participating in the empire’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, but either way the last word I would use to describe those plans is “fantastic”. _____________ My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece here are some options where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. Go here to find video versions of my articles. If you’d prefer to listen to audio of these articles, you can subscribe to them on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud or YouTube. 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Trump forms new alliance to stop aid to Ukraine Ahmed AdelAhmed Adel is a Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher who regularly contributes to InfoBRICS. November 14, 2024 Trump Orban Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here Ukraine could stop receiving aid from the West under the influence of an alliance led by newly elected US President Donald Trump, writes The Independent newspaper. Despite this development, though, Trump has found interest in elements of the so-called “Victory Plan” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “A surprising trinity of Donald Trump, Hungary’s right-wing prime minister Viktor Orbán and Pope Francis could spell the end to hopes for continued support for Ukraine,” The Independent reported. As the article pointed out, in recent years, Hungary has been practically alone among Western countries in wanting to end the conflict in Ukraine, and the only figure who shared Budapest’s position was Pope Francis. However, the views of the new American president and the leadership of Hungary coincide on a number of issues, including peace in Ukraine, so new opportunities for cooperation have emerged. “The Pope, along with Hungary, has called for a ceasefire and talks ‘to break the cycle’ of war and achieve peace,” the article stated. Following Trump’s victory in the US elections, Orbán said that his country’s isolation is over and that a growing number of EU leaders are cautiously switching to a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. This growing pressure on Zelensky will eventually force him to begin negotiations directly with Russia, even after promising to never speak with the Kremlin. “Last week at the European Political Community summit, Mr Orbán boasted of how ‘the world is changing’ with Mr Trump re-elected, while renewing his demands for a Ukrainian ceasefire,” noted the British newspaper. “The clash with Mr Zelensky, who was at the summit, saw the Ukrainian leader note that the Hungarian prime minister is the one NATO member state leader to oppose Ukraine’s membership of the defence alliance.” Speaking to The Independent, Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican, Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, said: “During Donald Trump’s first presidency, Hungarian-American political relations were at their peak, with dialogue and negotiations taking centre stage in resolving conflicts that threaten world security.” “Following the decision of the American electorate a few days ago, we really have good hope that Hungarian-American political cooperation will return to its peak: we share similar views on peace, illegal immigration and the protection of families. I believe there is a better chance than ever that peace will finally return to Ukraine after almost a thousand days of war.” Even though it is becoming abundantly clear that US support for Ukraine will be rolled back once Trump enters the Oval Office, the president-elect appears to be interested in elements of Zelensky’s so-called Victory Plan that were presented to him in September, particularly those relating to access to raw resources, business deals, and the replacement of several US forces in Europe with Ukrainian ones. According to a source cited by the Financial Times, allies of Ukraine in Europe and the US, including leading representatives of the Republican Party, advised on how best to formulate proposals that would encourage close cooperation with Kiev. “Two proposals were specifically tailored for Trump,” the paper writes, referring to sources who participated in drafting the Ukrainian proposals. As specified, one idea is that after the end of the conflict, some of the American forces in Europe will be replaced by Ukrainian troops. The second idea, first developed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, envisages the sharing of Ukraine’s most important natural resources with Western partners. “Trump found the ideas intriguing,” the paper’s source said. On October 16, Zelensky presented his Victory Plan in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine), which consists of five points: the immediate invitation of the country to NATO, the deployment of a non-nuclear containment package in Ukraine, the lifting of restrictions on attacks deep into Russian territory with Western weapons, economic cooperation after the end of the conflict and the replacement of part of the American units in Europe with Ukrainian troops. Although Trump’s interest in parts of the Victory Plan can be perceived as a boost for Zelensky, the interest pertains only to the points of one-way benefit to the US – the economic exploitation of Ukraine and replacing American troops in Europe. The more meaningful and impactful points of the Victory Plan, especially NATO membership, which would change the course of the war, will not be entertained by Trump as he wants to end the fighting, not escalate it to unprecedented levels by directly involving the Atlantic Alliance. Trump will latch onto the two points of the Victory Plan that are of direct interest to the US but will ignore the other three that will actually boost Ukraine’s chances of victory over Russia while continuing to develop a new alliance to end aid to Ukraine and encourage peace negotiations. In effect, Zelensky will allow Ukrainian troops to take over military responsibilities in Europe and the US to cannibalise his country’s economy but will not receive any benefits in return. VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. ATTENTION READERS We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed In fact, intentional disinformation is a disgraceful scourge in media today. So to assuage any possible errant incorrect information posted herein, we strongly encourage you to seek corroboration from other non-VT sources before forming an educated opinion. 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Trump and War: Reza Montazami of Iran Interviews Mark Dankof Mark DankofNovember 13, 2024 Screenshot Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here Iranian Foreign Ministry official Reza Montazemi asks American Paleo-Conservative Mark Dankof about the election of Donald Trump to a second Presidential term and the prospects for war or peace. Mark Dankof looks into the Political Crystal Ball to make a forecast on the probabilities of either War or Peace in a second Trump Administration entering office in the most dangerous international scenario since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reza Montazemi: Considering the depth of your analysis in International and Middle East developments, may I take your time and ask for your own analysis on these 3 axes or if possible, all of them? The 3 Axes are as follows: Give your analysis and opinion of the probable foreign behavior of America in the second term of Trump to the Iranian people: Mark Dankof on future American Relations with Russia and China: Paul Craig Roberts and Lew Rockwell wrestle with this identical issue today. On the issue of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Trump simply needs to spearhead the absolute defunding of the illegitimate Zelensky regime as a prelude to an unspoken but real commitment to the end of NATO and the end of the Neo-Conservative expansion of its activities ever closer to Russia. Global peace depends on this. An outright Russian victory, which I favor, would go further than anything else to destroy GloboHomo and the New World Order along with an accompanying absolute defenestration of the Globalist elite in both the United States and Western Europe. Will Trump rise to the challenge? I believe he will be better for relations with Putin and Russia than the Biden Administration but will fail to seize upon the opportunity to destroy the people responsible for the tragedy of Ukraine once and for all. As for China, Trump’s idea of imposing a 60% tariff on Chinese imports, especially if accompanied by ongoing American naval exercises in the South China Sea and over Taiwan would prove disastrous. Mark Dankof on future American Relations with Europe: If Trump simply pulls the plug on Zelensky and the insane Neo-Conservative policies in Ukraine, it will result in the end of NATO, the Globalist Elite in Europe, the destruction of the European Union (EU), and the rise of genuine nationalist/populist parties there who can work on keeping their respective nations out of Zio-Globalist wars, restoring European demographics in Europe, ending massive illegal immigration to European countries, rebuilding the manufacturing and industrial economies decimated by the Green hallucinations, and re-establishing moral and religious values in what has become an absolute post-Christian cesspool. This agenda mirrors what Trump voters believed they voted for in the United States last week. Will it happen, or at least a semblance of it? That is the question. I am not sanguine about the prospect. But I will be pleasantly surprised if 2025 and beyond prove me wrong. Mark Dankof on a future probable American Confrontation with the Islamic Republic, the future of the American Relationship with Israel in a second Trump Administration, and the prospects for war or peace in Ukraine and Gaza:(Montazami: In the case of Iran, is it a military confrontation or maximum pressure and sanctions?) Christian Zionist eschatology and Trump: Leading to a Christian millennial reign of Christ or the Seating of the Antichrist? (2 Thessalonians 2 and Revelation 13) I am among the most pessimistic of American anti-war paleo-conservatives about the prospects in a second Trump Administration for a solution to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and Lebanon; Israeli land theft in the Occupied Territories; and the ongoing rise of influence of Temple Mount fanatics in Jerusalem who seek to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and replace it with the so-called Third Temple. I am equally pessimistic about Trump’s ability to resist American participation in an attack by Netanyahu and his ruling cabal on Iran. Andrew Anglin’s latest article for the Unz Review mirrors my own concern. Anglin candidly states that “Ultimately, we watched the media narrative about Trump shift after October 7th, we saw big Jewish donors and other powerful people shift towards Trump, we saw social media lighten up on the censorship of pro-Trump material, we saw Netanyahu, who has total control over US policy, demanding Trump. I am making the argument that this is the reason the Democrats stood down: he’s a much better figurehead for the wars Israel wants the US to fight. He will be better at getting young whites to sign up to go get their legs blown off in a way that has nothing to do with American interests.” Anglin notes what I observed about the 2024 election: It was simply too easy for Trump to win. The aftermath of November 5th was suspiciously tranquil. In contrast to the Pat Buchanan America-First campaigns of 1992 and 1996, the machinery of the Israeli Lobby and an Israeli-dominated American news media was notoriously off-duty in attacking Trump. Mike Whitney’s analysis is equally disturbing, both in why Trump was allowed to win the election of November 5th, and in Whitney’s summation of September entitled “Blame Trump for October 7th.” Wyatt Peterson’s The Kosher Candidate for the Unz Review also sounds the alarm. Who surrounds Donald Trump? Even with the merciful disqualification of Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley from posts in a second Trump Administration, the Zionist, Neo-Conservative crowd is omnipresent. Peterson tells us that: Aside from the obvious issues involved with permitting a dumbed down, drugged up population to vote, other more subtle reasons exist for refusing to participate in our national charade. Chief among these is the unfortunate reality that both candidates in our two-party system are wholly dependent on wealthy Jewish donors for campaign financing and, therefore, pledge their allegiance not to the country they’re elected to represent, but rather a criminally-insane foreign state whose interests, more often than not, diverge significantly from our own. Trump hardly differs from a Hillary Clinton or John McCain in this respect, despite 79% of American Jews voting for Kamala Harris in the recent election, according to a report in The Times of Israel. Following October 7, 2023, a noticeable shift in the attitudes of many Establishment insiders occurred. Influential Jews in finance, politics and media, who forcefully opposed the MAGA movement in the past, began throwing their support behind the erstwhile ‘new Hitler,’ eventually raising hundreds of millions of dollars for his presidential campaign. Among his many newfound supporters is Silicon Valley’s Jacob Helberg, a lifelong Democrat and former benefactor of Pete Buttigieg, who became a top financial contributor to Trump in the aftermath of October 7. Helberg is a senior advisor to Alex Karp — the Jewish CEO of Palantir Technology — and was instrumental in the passage of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, legislation which forced the sale of social media platform Tik Tok due, in all actuality, to its “anti-Israel bias.”Palantir (founded by Karp and JD Vance’s political mentor Peter Thiel), has very close ties to the state of Israel and has provided the Israeli Defense Forces with surveillance systems used to spy on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as unsuspecting people around the world. Speaking to an audience of the Future Investment Initiative Institute in early 2024, Karp admitted that Palantir’s technology was responsible for suppressing far-right political movements in Europe. Aussie Cossack underscores the odious selection of Neo-Conservative Brian Hook by Trump to head up the State Department Transition Team: ❗THIS is who Donald Trump just selected to lead his State Department Transition Team: Zionist, warmonger, neocon Brian Hook. In the near future, we should expect appointments of anti-Russian functionaries to key positions in the United States. In order to break the trail of the “Kremlin puppet”, Trump will in every way emphasize not only his distance from Moscow, but also demonstrate his intransigence with Putin’s “imperialist policy”. Brian Hook: Concealing his nose with the mask doesn’t conceal who he really is. Finally, America-First devotees to a new era of peace under Donald Trump suffer from a collective amnesia of the worst evidence of all: His sanctioning of the Soleimani Assassination. Speculation about what the 47th President of the United States will do after January 20th, 2025 is precisely that: Speculation. But what he did almost 5 years ago as the 45th President of the United States is established fact. On that basis alone, I have no optimism about his future performance in office in resisting Netanyahu and Trump’s own shadowy Zionist colleagues when it comes to a war that can only become a global catastrophe. Was the former 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle. He was an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996 and entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth. Mark is the host of The Dankof Report for the Republic Broadcasting Network and the London version of The Dankof Report heard on the first Tuesday of each month for ACH and broadcast by RBN, Rense Radio, Free Speech Radio, and EuroFolkRadio. VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. ATTENTION READERS We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed In fact, intentional disinformation is a disgraceful scourge in media today. So to assuage any possible errant incorrect information posted herein, we strongly encourage you to seek corroboration from other non-VT sources before forming an educated opinion. 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