RNA - They backed up their claims by reporting that some Israeli ministers didn’t attend the airport reception of President Trump in Tel Aviv, prompting a furious Benjamin Netanyahu to issue a warning. The world, however, didn’t buy this latest ruse. As the saying goes, the devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist:
1 -For all of Israel’s whining about Trump’s $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, both Tel Aviv and Riyadh are de facto allies, cut from the same American cloth. Their Syrian-Iraqi-Yemeni extermination program is mutual. Some Israelis might make public statements playing up their animosity toward this latest US-Saudi arms deal, but the fact of the matter is that they see Riyadh as an ally, just like their American and ISIL counterparts who are hell-bent on partitioning Iraq and Syria. The same is true about Israel’s fake concerns about the high volume of Saudi arms. Saudis never attack Israelis, just as Israelis never attack Saudis.
2- The Israeli-Saudi lack of concern regarding terrorist groups is not bizarre at all when one understands the perspective and goals held by their proxies toward the resistance front or their connections to Americans who espouse Iran as their number one enemy. These proxies never launch coordinated military attacks against Tel Aviv and Riyadh. They are the brainchild of CIA, MI6 and Israeli MOSSAD, who “pay ISIL” (as Trump once said) and provide them with guns and munitions.
3- There might be some fear and loathing in Tel Aviv about the unconscionable “purchase of lots of beautiful military equipment” by Saudis. But that’s all really. Just like their American and Saudi partners in crime, Israelis are directly involved in the extermination of Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. In this game, the Israeli regime is virtually acting out its part in helping the American-Saudi terror proxies to exploit Iran’s allies. In Trump’s own words, “There was a really good feeling toward Israel at the American-Arab Summit in Riyadh." He further implied that the guns are meant to be directed at Iran. "What’s happened with Iran has brought many of the other parts of the Middle East toward Israel, and you could say that if there’s a benefit, that would be the benefit."
4- Trump went to Tel Aviv to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s primary and steadfast ties with Israel. He didn’t go there to advance the peace or take sides with Palestinians in the row. There were no controversies to hit his visit. He was there to help Israel to change the demographic make-up of Jerusalem Al-Quds as part of the Christian-Zionist project to Judaize the city and relocate the American embassy.
5- The “hysteria” amid Trump’s visit is designed to force the Trump White House to support and finance Israel's expansion of illegal settlements on Palestinian territories. Heartened by Trump's election, Israel has already unveiled plans to build 25,000 settler units in Jerusalem Al-Quds. Trump's visit was never designed to make any major breakthrough in the long-stalled talks between the two sides.
6- Saudi Arabia and Israel share a set of policies. They both claim Iran is a threat to their existence. Other common cases include forming a bogus international coalition to fight terrorism, targeting the regional Resistance Axis represented by Iran, drawing support and complicity of world organizations and powers, as well as dismissing international norms beside imposing economic blockades and military siege.
The usurper regime, therefore, can be rest-assured that Trump of Arabia and the House of Saud will continue to endorse any measures they take in the occupied West Bank, including any war against the Palestinians in Gaza. Unlike Riyadh which pays in cash, Tel Aviv will continue to get “lots of beautiful military equipment” as freebies from war-party hypocrites. They will never free US Middle East policy from their Israeli-Saudi-centric, Cold-War-era thinking. They will never halt the Mideast carnage or alleviate refugee crisis, much less find more flexibility in making a strategic approach to Iran, advance security and peace in Syria, Yemen and Palestine, avert international condemnation, and effectively counter terrorism, extremism, and any other variety.
Take it as it is. Trump’s “disgusting” visit to Riyadh and his unconscionable $350 billion arms deal with Saudis is a carte blanche to kill as many civilians as possible in Yemen and pursue their stated objectives militarily irrespective of world opinion in Syria. Likewise, Trump’s “hysterical” two-day Israeli leg is a carte blanche to build as Israel wishes with no restrictions, and reject the very concepts for regional peace, for which International Law is based on today.
In this looking-glass world, the devil exists. This disgusting policy, this wanton cruelty, this carefully constructed theme of Trump's first foreign trip as president, is never in search of “the ultimate deal” for Palestine or lasting security and security for the region. It is to maintain the status quo through massive arms sales, military aid, occupation, land theft, total exclusion, de-legitimization, regime change, and sectarian warfare. It makes the United States in many ways deeply complicit in Saudi-Israeli war crimes, genocide, and crimes committed against humanity.
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