How Trump's Walkaway diplomacy made it possible for the worst impulses of Israel | Trump Administration

The Israeli plan to occupy and depopulate Gaza Strip is perhaps not identical to Donald Trump's vision of a new Riviera, but Benjamin Netanyahu's inspiration and the Walkay Diplomacy of the USA have led to the abyss of a difficult new chapter of the Israel Gaza War.

The common perception in Washington and Israel is that Trump has largely continued and that an encouraged Netanyahu has left his own devices, while his suggestions for the conversion of Gaza to a “Riviera of the Middle East” for the rights of Israeli politicians to support the forced resettlement of the Palestinian population.

“Part of the tragedy is that the only one who can actually save us, Trump, is not even seriously interested in it,” said Amos Harel, a prominent military and defense correspondent in the Haaretz newspaper. “Our only hope of getting out of this crazy situation is that Trump would force Netanyahu to achieve a hostage deal. But but [Trump] Seems uninterested. He was thrilled when the Riviera [idea] It was proposed, but now he has moved to Greenland, Canada and Mexico instead. “

Trump's interventions – in particular the threat of Steve Witkoff for Netanyahu during a tense shabbat meeting – were significantly involved in achieving a temporary ceasefire for the conflict in January. His influence on Netanyahu seemed to be greater than that of the former US presidents, including his rival Joe Biden.

But since then the ceasefire has collapsed, a two-month Israeli blockade for help has triggered an even worse humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and with a few options for a quick peace, the white house now appears uninterested and overloaded, while Israel is signing an offensive and occupation that critics will be a state directive of ethnic cleaning.

It is a trend that has repeated itself with this white house: Broad designs for a large deal, followed by frustration when diplomacy does not achieve immediate results. The White House recently announced that it was also willing to move away from the negotiations on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine if no faster deal has been completed. Russia suggested this to wait for Trump administration, observers, and the bank said in the long term about a guideline of the US-not integration. Netanyahu also seems to have been unleashed by the growing disinterest of the White House.

The Israeli ultimatum comes when Trump is supposed to visit the Middle East next week. Israeli officials inform that they will only start the operation after having returned from a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Trump's conversations are expected to concentrate on investments and a likely quixotic search to normalize relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel, but not to achieve a solution to the war. On Tuesday, Maariv, an Israeli newspaper, reported that a visit to Trump in Israel was not questioned, but officials from the White House have not yet signaled that Trump is willing to meet Netanyahu.

Witkoff, the Trump envoy, still appears personally in a solution to the conflict, but is overloaded by trying to mediate between Russia and Ukraine and at the same time negotiate an Iranian nuclear agreement. The United States has negotiated with Israel about an aid program that would create a new mechanism for auxiliary distribution to avoid Hamas. But the UN and all organizations working in Gaza have sentenced the plan as an Israeli takeover. “It violates fundamental humanitarian principles and seems to control life-supporting objects as a pressure tactic-as part of a military strategy,” said the heads of all UN agencies and NGOs, which are active in Gaza in a joint explanation on Sunday.

The budget and personnel cuts by the Trump administration have also signaled a withdrawal from diplomacy. According to reports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was ready to reduce the role of the security coordinator for the West Bank and Gaza, a three-star general that was commissioned to manage security crises between Israel and the Palestinian authority, in particular with regard to the growing tensions between settlers and local Palestinian communities.

It is even more important that Trump gave Israeli officials who had been looking for more aggressive measures in Gaza, including forced depopulation. The government agents were particularly aggressive, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Gaza “completely destroyed” within months and the Gazan population would be “concentrated” in a small country strip. “The rest of the strip will be empty,” he said.

But other ministers have also become more radical with Trump's rhetoric for cover, said Harel.

“As soon as Trump said that, you could see how not only the radicals, but also the ministers of Likud etc. have an apology,” said Harel. “” It is not us. It is the world, the leader of the free world says that, so we have to play along. “