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Trump Ambushes Netanyahu by Announcing Direct US Ownership of Gaza
And Reform Party UK Leads National Polls for First Time as Nigel Farage Looks Set to Become Prime Minister
- A Radical Dispatch
1) Trump Rug-Pulls Netanyahu By Announcing US Ownership of Gaza
President Trump has declared a US ownership claim to the Israeli-occupied territory of Gaza. By introducing a new and more powerful party to the dispute so publicly, Trump’s claim redraws the negotiating parameters for any prospective peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Times reports 5th February 2025:
Prime Minister Netanyahu appeared completely blindsided by this announcement.
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President Trump: “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job. Do something different. Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years. I'm hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing, once and for all. With the same goal in mind, my administration has been moving quickly to restore trust in the alliance and rebuild American strength throughout the region. And we've really done that. We're a respected nation again.”
By using the words “take over,” ”own” and declaring the US “responsible” for the future of Gaza, Trump’s wording explicitly and deliberately assumes the role of a competing occupying power vis a vis Israel.
As if to drive the message home, Trump explicitly repeated an unambiguous competing ownership claim over Gaza on behalf of the US.
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Correspondent: “Mr Prime Minister, you are talking tonight about the United States taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation there, redevelopment? And Mr. Prime Minister, do you see this idea as a way to expand the boundaries of Israel and to have a longer peace, even though the Israeli people know how important that land is to you and your citizens just as the space is inherited by the Palestinians as well?”
President Trump: “I do see a long-term ownership position and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East. And everybody I've spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly, everybody I've spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know. Nobody could look because all they see is death and destruction and rubble and demolished buildings falling all over. It's just a terrible, terrible sight. I've studied it. I've studied this very closely over a lot of months, and I've seen it from every different angle. And it's a very, very dangerous place to be. And it's only going to get worse. And I think this is an idea that's gotten tremendous. And I'm talking about from the highest level of leadership, gotten tremendous praise. And if the United States can help to bring stability and peace in the Middle East, we'll do that.”
Using its new found status of an occupying power under International law, Trump aims to rebuild Gaza and convert it into a “Riviera” of the Middle East for “world people” but “Palestinians, mostly.”
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Correspondent: “Just to follow up on what you were saying there. Just to follow up on what you were saying about the Gazans leaving Gaza and going to other countries. One, where exactly are you suggesting that they should go? And two, are you saying they should return after it's rebuilt? And if not, who do you envision living there?”
President Trump: “I envision world people living there, the world's people. I think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place. I think the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable. And I think the entire world, representatives from all over the world will be there and they’ll...And they'll live there. Palestinians also. Palestinians will live there. Many people will live there. But they've tried the other, and they've tried it for decades and decades and decades. It's not going to work. It didn't work. It will never work. You have to learn from history. History is, you know, you just can't let it keep repeating itself. We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. And I don't want to be cute, I don't want to be a wise guy, but the Riviera of the Middle East, this could be something that could be so magnificent. But more importantly than that is the people that have been absolutely destroyed that live there now can live in peace in a much better situation because they're living in hell. And those people will now be able to live in peace. We'll make sure that it's done world class. It'll be wonderful for the people. Palestinians, Palestinians, mostly we're talking about...
..And I have a feeling that despite them saying no, I have a feeling that the king in Jordan and that the general president, but that the general in Egypt will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done and people can live in harmony and in peace. Thank you all very much.”
Trump also made it clear that such a bold change in the destiny of the area came after extensive conversations with other Middle Eastern leaders.
The Times reports 5th February 2025:
“Trump said he had spoken to other leaders in the Middle East, adding: ‘Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land and developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent, in a really magnificent area. We have an opportunity to do something phenomenal. I don’t want to be cute, I don’t want to be a wiseguy. But ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’ — this could be something that could be so magnificent’.”
And it will be those other Middle Eastern leaders - most likely Emirati Arab investors - who will likely pay for the reconstruction and redevelopment of Gaza.
The Times reports 5th February 2025:
“The public rejection of this idea by Egypt and Jordan should not be taken at face value, he suggested. ‘I have a feeling that despite them saying no, I have a feeling that the King of Jordan and … the president of Egypt will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done,’ he said. His plans would need ‘massive amounts of money supplied by other people, very rich nations, and they’re willing to supply it’, he said….’I mean, it’s hardly a building standing and the ones that are going to collapse. You can’t live in Gaza right now and I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy’.”
The White House has confirmed that the investment to rebuild will not be coming from America. This strengthens our view that Trump’s entire announcement has been made after extensive consultation with regional Arab leaders, and comes at the expense of, not on behalf of, Netanyahu.
In other words, with the agreement of Arab regional leaders, Israel is being been elbowed out to become merely another interested party, as opposed to being the only de facto occupying power in Gaza.
Such a move is groundbreaking.
2) This was an ambush by Trump
Trump’s policy and approach to the Palestine conflict diverges from Netanyahu’s in a number of important ways. It is only by understanding what each party wants that one grasps what Trump seeks to achieve. Though a surprise to the world’s media, Trump’s announcement would not have come without planning and extensive regional conversations. The key to understanding Trump’s intention is to understand its context.
Below, we do as promised and provide receipts for each point made.
i) Netanyahu wants to directly occupy Gaza
Netanyahu’s government has openly stated its aim of annexing Gaza.
Radical Media reports 23rd October 2024:
And then arranging for its redevelopment under occupying Israeli auspices.
ii) Trump dislikes Netanyahu & wants the fighting to end
However, standing in Netanyahu’s way is President Trump, who has taken a personal disliking to the Israeli leader, and considers him disloyal.
The Times reports 4th February 2025:
“…However, a rift opened up in January 2020 over the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force. Trump told Time magazine last May: ‘I had a bad experience with Bibi,’ adding that the operation at Baghdad airport was supposed to have been a joint attack with the Israelis until Netanyahu backed out. ‘That was something I never forgot.’
Then Netanyahu committed an even more grave sin in Trump’s eyes. He congratulated Joe Biden on his 2020 election victory. ‘I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi. But I also like loyalty. The first person to congratulate Biden was Bibi. And not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape,’ Trump told Axios six months later, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname. ‘I haven’t spoken to him since. F**k him.’
In particular, Trump has expressed suspicion around Israel’s behaviour during the US operation to assassinate Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force.
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“….about 15 seconds later it was all over, and we did it (drone strike on Iranian General Soleimani - ed). But I’ll never forget..I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing. I will say that.. and..so when I see sometimes, the intelligence, you talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week, they’ve gotta straighten it out, because they’re fighting potentially a very big force, they’re fighting potentially Iran.”
Trump’s dislike for Netanyahu resurfaced as recently as last month, as he reposted commentary by Jeffrey Sachs online describing Netanyahu as a ‘deep, dark son of a bitch’.
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Jeffrey Sachs reposted by Trump: “……This is a game. And it's a game of narrative. Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003? Well, first of all, it was completely phony pretenses. It wasn't, ‘oh, we were so wrong, they didn't have weapons of mass destruction’. They actually did focus groups in the fall of 2002 to find out what would sell that war to the American people. Abe Shulsky, if you want to know the name of the PR genius. They did focus groups on the war. They wanted the war all the time. They had to figure out how to sell the war to the American people, how to scare the shit out of the American people. It was a phony war. Where did that war come from? You know what? It's quite surprising. That war came from Netanyahu, actually. You know that? It's weird. And the way it is, is that Netanyahu had from 1995 onward the theory that the only way we're going to get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah is by toppling the governments that support them. That's Iraq, Syria, and Iran. And the guy's nothing if not obsessive. And he's still trying to get us to fight Iran this day, this week. He's a deep, dark son of a bitch, sorry to tell you, because he's gotten us into endless wars. And because of the power of all of this in the US politics, he's gotten his way. But that war was totally phony. So what is this democracy versus dictatorship? Come on. This is these are not even sensible terms.”
This move by Trump made headlines in Israel.
Haaretz reports 8th January 2025:
“U.S. President-elect Donald Trump shared a video of contentious economics professor Jeffrey Sachs describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ‘a deep, dark son of a bitch’."
It is with this in mind that Netanyahu seems not to have been invited to Trump’s inauguration.
The Times of Israel reports 9th January 2025:
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been formally invited to US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month, a senior aide to the premier told The Times of Israel..”
Instead, Trump did invite an anti-Zionist Rabbi.
Ynet reports 17th January 2025:
“U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has invited Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, the anti-Zionist leader of the Satmar Hasidic community, to a meeting at the White House as ‘recognition of his support during the election,’ Trump’s campaign announced on Friday. The historic meeting marks the first time a sitting U.S. president will host a Hasidic leader at the White House. Trump’s team said that he considers Rabbi Teitelbaum’s blessing a ‘significant factor in his victory’ and seeks a special blessing ahead of his presidency. The Satmar sect, known for its opposition to secular Zionism and the State of Israel, has regularly participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations in New York City since October 7”.
iii) Netanyahu wants war with Iran
In addition to the public rift between the two leaders, they also diverge on regional concerns. Trump seeks denuclearisation of all powers while pursuing a regional deal, while Netanyahu wants war with Iran.
The Times reports 1st February 2025:
“Trump wants the Gaza ceasefire to move on from its first phase into a long-term cessation of violence, opening the pathway to a strategic deal with Saudi Arabia and the containment of Iran’s nuclear programme. For the Israeli prime minister, his priority is holding on to power while denying Hamas a victory in Gaza and keeping far-right coalition partners onside. Many question, however, how he can do those things if he gives Trump what he wants on the ceasefire.”
Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff recently acknowledged this diverging of interests.
Times of Israel reports 19th January 2025
Trump’s incoming Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff..”Remember, there’s a lot of people, radicals, fanatics, not just from the Hamas side, from the right wing of the Israeli side, who are absolutely incentivized to blow this whole deal up…If we don’t help the Gazans, if we don’t make their life better, if we don’t give them a sense of hope, there’s going to be a rebellion”
iv) Trump supports the Abraham Accords regional peace deal and wants war to finish
While Netanyahu seeks war with Iran, Trump dreams of a resurrecting the regional peace deal known as the Abraham Accords.
The Times reports 4th February 2025:
“…Netanyahu helped with the greatest international success of Trump’s first term in the Abraham accords, a series of normalisation deals between Arab nations and Israel that not only Trump believes worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize…Trump would love to revitalise talk of a grand peace deal involving Saudi Arabia but that would require a plan for Palestinian statehood which Netanyahu opposes…Netanyahu wants to apply more pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear programme while Trump is wary of being drawn into any kind of conflict.”
In this vein, Trump went so far as to appoint Massad Boulos, the father of his Lebanese American son-in-law Michael - married to Tiffany Trump - as his new senior advisor on Arab and Middle East affairs.
Radical Media reports 5th December 2024, extract:
Reviving the Abraham Accords will most likely require recognition of a Palestinian state.
And an end to the regional wars, which is already happening.
v) Netanyahu uses Hamas terrorism in Gaza as a pretext for perma-war
The fact that Trump has just placed America as history’s strongest military power immediately between Israel and the Palestinians, scuppers Netanyahu’s ability to leverage Hamas terrorism as a pretext to invade and occupy Gaza and continue his perma-war on behalf of globalist interests.
This is especially so as it is known that Israel originally co-founded Hamas, and Netanyahu is specifically on the record encouraging the financing of Hamas.
Radical Media reports 15th October 2024:
This was done precisely so as to provide Netanyahu with the evidence required to make the claim on the world stage that a Palestinian state is impossible because it would be run by terrorists. Israeli commentators have been acknowledging this as recently as this latest Gaza war.
Radical Media reports 15th October 2024:
vi) Trump has publicly blamed Netanyahu for Hamas terrorism on October 7th
With America’s new ownership claim, and by serving as an occupying power in Gaza, Trump has a material interest in keeping Netanyahu and Hamas apart and preventing any further terrorist rule in Gaza, deliberately facilitated by Netanyahu in order to scupper any future prospects for peace by once again allowing for Israel to prop up Hamas.
Trump has already publicly blamed Netanyahu for the failures that led to the October 7th attacks.
The Times reports 4th February 2025:
“Trump, the ultimate transactional politician, could not accept that another great opportunist would switch his support to the winning team. He also told Time last year that Netanyahu was responsible for failing to stop the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, adding that ‘thousands and thousands of people’ knew about the attacks before they happened ‘and I think he’s being blamed for that very strongly’.”
Trump has also publicly hinted at his disbelief that Netanyahu could not have known of the October 7th attacks in advance, hence implying that Netanyahu facilitated them in order to use them as a pretext to go to war and annex Gaza.
Radical Media reports 25th September 2024:
vii) Ergo: Trump just entirely rug-pulled Netanyahu in Gaza.
All of the above points to but one conclusion: by announcing a direct US ownership claim on Gaza, Trump just entirely rug-pulled Netanyahu and placed history’s strongest military power directly between Israel and the displaced Palestinian population. Nothing is perfect, certainly not Trump, but he’s certainly outmanoeuvred Netanyahu here.
Direct US presence on the ground is objectively better for Palestinians than Israeli military occupation. It is best to curtail reactions to negotiating tactics presented as headlines. Nothing comes without context. Trump is on record stating that he believes the Israelis - not the Palestinians - to be the obstacle to peace.
The Times of Israel reports 11th December 2021:
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President Trump: “You have a lasting peace. First thing you have to ask, do they both want to make it? I have a real question as to whether or not both sides wants to make it. I have a real question as to one side in particular, whether or not they want to make it. Well, I don't want to say that right now. I think one side actually would like a deal, and I think the other one maybe doesn't want a deal, to be honest. I don't want to say it, no. Look. We show our cards too much in the good. I wrote the art of the deal. We show our cards too much. So if I get into that, I don't want to say this and that, and then they'll come and they'll say, well, Trump is biased one way or the other. I think there's a chance that you could probably make a deal if you had a real deal maker, if you had somebody that knew what he or she was doing. In my opinion, if Israel wants to make a deal, I think a deal could be made. I think a lot is going to do with Israel.
Look, it's going to have to do with both sides, but a lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal. But he wanted to make a deal more than that, you know. And I will be honest, I had a great meeting with him. Abbas, right? I had a great meeting with him. And we spent a lot of time together. Talked about many things. And it was almost like a father. I mean, he was so nice. Couldn't have been nicer. And after meeting with Bibi for... Three minutes. I looked at him and said, you don't want to make a deal, do you? And he said, well, and the fact is, I don't think we ever wanted to make a deal. I thought the Palestinians were impossible, that the Israelis would do anything to make peace and a deal. I found that not to be true.”
In other words, and as regular readers should by now come to expect, the exact opposite of the hysterical media reaction is what is really happening. We are headed towards peace, not war.
3) Nigel Farage now leads UK polls
For the first time, Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has taken the lead spot in national polls.
The Times reports 3rd February 2025:
The Times reports 3rd February 2025:
“Reform UK has overtaken Labour for the first time in a national opinion poll and has the backing of almost a quarter of those who voted Conservative at the last election. The YouGov survey puts Nigel Farage’s party on 25 per cent — one point ahead of Labour and four points ahead of the Conservatives, who are at their lowest level since losing power in July.”
Though the difference is within a margin of error, the lead will most likely galvanise Reform supporters and worry other mainstream political parties.
Sky News reports 3rd February 2025:
Farage has used the opportunity in media to reemphaise his anti-corporate message.
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Sky News Correspondent: “…Well done on the poll. You're number one, 25, Labor 24, Conservatives 21, then it's 14 and 9. Mate, we end where we began. The joint is wrapping itself around a movement for change.”
Nigel Farage: “Absolutely. And you know what? The consensus we've had for years doesn't work. Ordinary folk get poorer. Our borders are open. Excess migration changes our communities. People want strong, patriotic, real leadership that actually cares about ordinary people, not just the big corporates.”
Regular readers will be aware that we have been forecasting a Nigel Farage premiership since before he won his seat in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.
Radical Media reports 21st November 2024:
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Maajid Nawaz on WARRIOR CREED:
“And these are the big issues of the day and really the only national leader welcomed universally by all of these various protest movements is Nigel Farage, which is why we've taken the view that what this is indicating to us here at Radical Media, you can quote us on this if you like, we're quite sure of it and we tend to generally be able to read these things correctly, is that Nigel Farage will become Prime Minister of this country sooner than most people think. We've been saying that for a long time before the general election, before he won his seat in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.”
4) Reform will win upcoming local elections
When considering which route a Reform Party path to Downing Street will take, the upcoming local elections due in less than three months will form a critical indicator of lasting momentum. Reform are planning to launch their local campaign with what they are touting as Britain’s “biggest ever launch rally in modern British political history”.
The issues that look set to catapult Reform to success in these upcoming local elections, and then on to the general election, include the hot button issue of immigration.
The Times reports 28th January 2025:
The Times reports 28th January 2025:
“The arrival of ten million immigrants within a decade is projected to bring Britain’s population to 72.5 million, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics. By 2032 the population is forecast to grow by nearly five million people, an increase caused almost entirely by net migration. The natural change — the difference between births and deaths — is projected to be close to zero. Sir Keir Starmer wanted to bring down the ‘staggeringly high migration numbers’, his spokesman said in response.”
The Tory track record on this has recently come under intense scrutiny, which almost guarantees the collapse of their vote in favour of Reform - as trends already indicate.
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