Trump Finds His Next Infrastructure Project: 'Taking Care' of Gaza
The Hill reports Trump's assertion that Hamas's fate is easily sealed, a stunning display of amnesia considering the group has survived—and thrived—through numerous Israeli military campaigns, blockades, and political shifts since its founding in 1987. His confidence echoes rhetoric from leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu, who's been pledging to eradicate Hamas since at least 2002, only to see its
political and military capabilities adapt and regroup. This pattern of 'eliminating' the group, only for it to re-emerge, is a well-worn path in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one the mainstream media studiously avoids highlighting to maintain the illusion of a simple, solvable problem. One might wonder if 'taking care of' a population under siege for nearly two decades (which Hamas purports to
represent) is as simple as winning a golf tournament. Or perhaps the former president, like so many before him, views the 2.3 million souls in Gaza as merely an obstacle to be 'handled,' rather than a consequence of a complex, decades-long occupation and systemic dehumanization. How many times will we hear the 'final solution' for Gaza before realizing the problem isn't Hamas' persistence, but the
conditions that birth and sustain it?