Trump refuses to accept that Netanyahu and Putin Forever are the only option | Simon Tisdall

BEnjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin enjoyed a friendly phone chat at the beginning of this month and was the 80th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi Germany. The Israeli and Russian leaders have a lot in common. Both claim that in Gaza and Ukraine still heroically fight against Nazis. This fiction is used to justify the mass murder of the civilian population, the victims of troops and the enormous economic and reputative costs. Maybe it will help you sleep at night.

Bibi and Vlad: The most wanted men in the world – and possibly the most despised.

The monitoring of random killing, mutilation and traumatization of thousands of children is one of many common behaviors. These two authoritarian “strong men” have plunged their countries in global pariaks and moral purdah. She keeps conflict in power. They milk a patriotic mood compared to the opponent of the house and disparagus foreign critics as anti -Semites, terrorist sympathizers or Russians. They wage war because they fear peace. Both are on the run from international judiciary, with arrest warrants for their arrest for hideous crimes.

Netanyahu and his right-wing extremist buddies refuse the right of an independent state precisely the same right that is claimed by the founders of Israel. Putin also rejects the reality of Ukraine as a sovereign country. Both project messianic, expansionist visions – a “larger Israel” and a revitalized Soviet empire. The underpinning of such views is a racist supremacist, ultra nationalist way of thinking.

The European leaders predict that if she is not punished, Putin will turn his weapons on her at some point. Netanyahu has already expanded the Gaza Strip to Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. The latest US intelligence reports indicate that he is preparing to attack Iran, hoping to scupper nuclear discussions between Washington and Tehran.

And potential peace pencils, especially US President Donald Trump, do not record any further visceral similarity: Neither does not want to have permanent peace. Forever war, your preferred option is your standard setting. They are dependent on their survival of violence. When the fights stop, you know that you are exposed to a potentially ruinous settlement.

What will people say in Rostov-on-Don, Omsk or Nizhny Novgorod when thousands of returning veterans what really happened at the front? How long can Putin take if the Russian elites enable the stunning economic and social costs of his failed gambling to improve the stunning economic and social costs? When peace comes, Netanyahu will face elections – and a probable defeat. The prison period for alleged bribery and corruption could follow. The International Criminal Court will request your handover. Both could be at the bottom and out.

That's why they fear peace. And that is why tireless international insistence on the end of the wars, which are supported by increased military and economic aid for Ukraine as well as tougher sanctions and diplomatic pressure on the Israeli government, the way to dismiss two of the leading bad guys of age. No wonder that this couple, whose sometimes rocky relationship goes back two decades, exchanged “warm greetings” on the phone. You need yourself now.

Perhaps they discussed ways to put down critics like Keir Starrer when Netanyahu brutally tried last week. Netanyahu believes that the horrific atrocities on October 7, 2023 means that he is free to do everything he wants, how illegal and immoral. He's wrong. Or maybe he and Putin exchanged tips for manipulating, flattering and Bamboozig Trump. It is a game in which both Exel.

This Netanyahu-Tutin-Trump triumvirate, this mutually reinforced, cynical political fan dance, is now the main obstacle to peace on all fronts. The chaotic political design, which characterized Trump's first term, achieves in his second new, dangerous level of incoherent. When the wars are to end and the Netanyahu-Tutin era ends, US current and lever must be fully used in close cooperation with the allied Washington.

The opposite is happening at the moment. Trump visited the golf and was more like a Spivvy -traveling seller than a US president. Personally indifferent to hungry Palestinians in Gaza and tries late to contain Netanyahus embarrassing excesses – and prevent him from bombing Iran. But that doesn't mean Trump saw the light on Palestine. Now his ugly “Gaza Riviera” cheeze has flopped, he seems to have lost interest. There is nothing in it for him.

If the temporary viewing of views is set again and more hostages are published, Trump will claim a credit. But the fundamental problem remains: he helps and armed a villain prime minister and a right-wing extremist clique that, like American neokons, takes advantage of the Hamas Gräulats after the attacks of September 11, to drive a chauvinist agenda, while it continues to threaten international law through the genocide.

It is no better in Ukraine. Trump torpedoed a common British-French, political ultimatum, the Putin asked to immediately accept a 30-day ceasefire and said he knew best. But when he spoke to Russia's president last Monday, he thought. Once again Putin made a fool Trump and divided the USA and Europe.

Trump's increased realization that he is neither God nor the Pope and that the power of his personality is not sufficient to solve all secular problems offers a glimmer of hope for Gaza and Ukraine. Trump threatens to go away in a SNIT. If he was only! The United States must remain busy on several levels. But a trappist posture of the President's silence would significantly support the cause of peace.

Trump makes things worse like a quacksholder doctor. Netanyahu and Putin come every day with murder, which corresponds to a large extent to their unsuspecting, narcissistic white housebro. Every day, more children's life are destroyed.

Trump should delegate the great and delegate Gaza and Ukraine peace pencils for experienced US career diplomats, UN messages, Arab and European mediators, secret services and military experts. In short, he should leave it to people who know what they are doing. As for Netanyahu and Putin, he should wash his hands from both.

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