More than five hundred years ago, Machiavelli proposed the philosopher of the modern political and Republican practice, in “in”.Speeches on Levy“Sometimes, it is very wise to simulate madness.” Richard Nixon, according to It seems that his chief of staff Haldeman has reached a similar conclusion, saying: “I call it the theory of Madman, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese that I have reached the point where I may do anything to stop the war. We will bleed the word to them, for God, you know that Nixon is obsessed with communism.
On Tuesday, President Trump appeared alongside the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin NetanyahuIn the Eastern Chamber of the White House, and announced that one million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced to leave the tape. The United States “will take over” Gaza And “ownership”. The Palestinians, after being subjected to tens of thousands of deaths and destroying countless homes, schools, mosques, hospitals and other infrastructure, will not have what he says about any of this and will be sent. . . elsewhere. Egypt. Jordan. whatever. Trump hardly seems that such a policy represents ethnic cleansing. Ethics are not important when there is a real estate deal that can be done.
“We have an opportunity to do something that can be enormous, and I do not want to be nice, and I do not want to be a wise young man, but the Riviera in the Middle East – this can be something that can be – this can be very cool.” (The Riviera: “A sunny place for grievances,” said W As noted earlier in the day, “You should not be one area, but you take some areas and adopt really good quality housing, such as a beautiful city, like a place where you can live and do not die, because Gaza is a guarantee that they will end up to death.” .
Netanyahu expressed his confidence that the plan “will enter peace with Saudi Arabia and with others.” The Saudis issued an official statement rejecting Trump’s proposal, but the newly populated yes men who made it on a braid: Foreign Minister Marco Rubio Tweet that “the United States is ready to lead and make Gaza beautiful again.”
When Trump spoke, Netanyahu could not resist a smile so widely that he should have suffered after a period of time. He could not imagine a greater gift than the American president Political cover Back to the homeland. His gratitude was boundless, and he knew well enough to disappear on the murmur fat. “I said this before, I will say that again: You are the greatest friend of Israel ever in the White House,” Netanyahu told Trump, for the sake of the cameras. “I think, Mr. President, that your willingness to puncture traditional thinking, thinking that has failed over and over, and your willingness to think outside the box with new ideas, will help us achieve all these goals.”
Netanyahu Fans heads in the Israeli pressLike Amit Secal, from Channel 12, praised the news, and Itamar ben-gvirOne of the leaders of the wing attached to the Israeli policy, Tweet, “Donald, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Amos Harril, the reporter and analyst who is very respectful Haritzand The liberal daily, “The right wing here is active. There is no way to know this. Maybe Trump is more illusion than I thought. He has more energy than Biden, but… Wonderful.”
This is not the first time that the Trump family, which has made significant financial investments in the region in recent years, has imagined Gaza for the possibility of its resort. Last February, Trump’s son -in -law Jared Kushner He said in an interview at Harvard University that “the property of the waterfront in Gaza may be of great value. It is a little unfortunate, but from the point of view of Israel, I will do my best to move people abroad and then clean it,” he said in an interview at Harvard University. Kushner retracted the White House policy, and he is now in Miami, but he looks at himself as a major strategic expert in the Middle East. At Harvard University, he said that “recognition proactively” that a Palestinian state will be a “great idea.”
After watching Trump and Netanyahu, I spoke with the Abu Posada, a political scientist at Al -Azhar University, in Gaza, who was studying this year at Northwestern University. He told me: “I am depressed, man.” “I do not even know what will happen, but I know that the Palestinians are against this and they prefer to live in tents and in the ruins of their destroyed homes instead of leaving. We all know that neighboring countries, Egypt and Jordan, said no to this idea.” King Abdullah II, from Jordan, and the president Abd al -Faih al -SisiFrom Egypt, they both see an increase in the Palestinian population in their countries as a demographic and political threat to their regimes. Also, although both countries have long -term peace treaties with Israel, it is not clear how Trump’s proposal and the pleasure of Netanyahu in his statement may affect these arrangements.
Aaron David Miller, the veteran diplomat and analyst in the Middle East, told me that his “head explodes” as he watches Trump. He said: “During the twenty -seven years of working with Democrats and Republicans, I have never heard a press conference like this.”
Of course, Miller realizes that Trump’s intention is always shock, crazy play, thus intimidating his competitors and changing the conditions of discussion. Perhaps, just, everything will dissipate, suggest Miller. Trump usually says obscene things, watching how they land, and often he wipes himself from his provocations. (Will you be seized? Greenland? the Panama channel? Make Canada the fifty -first state?) Perhaps Trump believes that he will be able to support Netanyahu at home and greatly predicts other Middle Eastern leaders that he will be able to Iran in a deal that ends its nuclear ambitions and completes a broader regional settlement with Saudi cooperation. Or perhaps Trump’s latest performance is an article with the “dumping of the region” strategy with a lot of chaos and deceptive rhetoric, and with a lot of proposals and advanced dates of the mind, to the extent that, while the president of the collective institution explodes on the basis of every hour, he achieves at least some of his best aspirations .
However, it seems imperative that there is a price for all madness. Miller warned that although Trump may back down from his proposal to ethnic cleansing and the creation of the Rivieh, this performance sends a particularly dangerous message: “It is a reference to Putin that can maintain the region he took in Ukraine, and to get something, who may have them Now the confidence in creating a Taiwan siege in preparation for the invasion.
Nixon considered himself a deep thinker in the global strategy. However, it is important to remember that although he might convince himself that his action would bring the northern Vietnamese leadership to the heel, this war ends in the American defeat. Likewise, Putin’s veiled nuclear threats during his war on Ukraine and Trump’s threats.Fire and angerAgainst North Korea, in 2017, it barely proven decisive, and less. The president’s decision to publish, once again, offered anarchist courage – a legislation of the Madman theory, if this is what it is – he will not do anything to bring a permanent peace to the Middle East, and bring a stain to the United States. ♦
