Building Mr. Trump\u2019s so-called Riviera of the Middle East would depend on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states putting up vast amounts of money on the promise of ensuring even tighter strategic and economic links with the United States. For now, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia, have signaled interest by joining Mr. Trump\u2019s Board of Peace. Israel, as the Board of Peace consolidates control and Gaza is redeveloped, would take another step in its long-term objective of obliterating Palestinians\u2019 hopes for an end to the Israeli occupation of their territories.<\/p>\n
Other nations, by declining to hold Israel accountable, would also benefit. Germany is Israel\u2019s second-biggest supplier of arms, after the United States, and has signed major contracts purchasing military technology from Israel. Germany is defending itself at the International Court of Justice against accusations by Nicaragua of facilitating genocide in Gaza by funding Israel and cutting aid to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, so it has every political and economic interest in taking the issue off the table. (Germany has denied the allegations.) Britain is believed to have used its military bases in Cyprus to support Israel and is laboring to improve its relations with the United States. France is trying to maintain its political influence in the Levant and to move on from the question of genocide in Gaza, which, according to President Emmanuel Macron, will be determined by \u201chistorians, in due time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israel, too, is profiting. Even though some European governments have canceled weapons deals and imposed sanctions on Israeli military firms in response to Israeli violence in Gaza, business has remained brisk for Israel\u2019s arms industry. Israeli export arms sales rose by 30 percent last year over 2024, to a record $19.2 billion, according to Calcalist<\/a>, an Israeli financial news site, and the battle testing of weapons systems in Gaza serves as a selling point, Calcalist reported. In other words, wreaking destruction brings profits.<\/p>\n For now, Israel\u2019s impunity will enable its Jewish citizens to continue to ignore the genocide, the consequences<\/a> of which will be a deepening degradation<\/a> of Israeli ethics<\/a> and morality, erosion of the rule of law, internal police violence against the state\u2019s Palestinian and Jewish citizens and the undermining of whatever is left of Israeli democracy. Beyond being deprived of any justice and accountability for their suffering, the Gazan victims of Israeli actions will continue to live in dire conditions, under military supervision and with very limited prospects.<\/p>\n Since Defense Minister Israel Katz reportedly proclaimed<\/a> last July that Israel was planning to establish a \u201chumanitarian city\u201d in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, conditions on the ground have only deteriorated. It appears conceivable that Mr. Trump\u2019s plan will be facilitated by an international force aided by Palestinian security personnel and the Israel Defense Forces to enclose the population in such cities, from which they will be able to emerge only to service the wealthy residents of the so-called New Gaza. In those extensive parts<\/a> of the strip remaining under Israeli control, new flourishing Jewish settlements<\/a> are likely to be planted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Building Mr. Trump\u2019s so-called Riviera of the Middle East would depend on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[2415,6440,4064,2254,63739,9102,37,876,2253,392,4062],"class_list":["post-221888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin","tag-board-of-peace","tag-donald-j","tag-gaza-strip","tag-international-court-of-justice-un","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu","tag-palestinians","tag-trump","tag-united-states-international-relations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116978650084427278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}