Foreign Affairs More of the Same in Israel A change of management in Jerusalem is unlikely to shift policy. TakiMag (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images) Like Penelope weaving Laertes’ shroud by day and unraveling her work by night, successive Israeli governments have paid lip service to the concerns of a gullible Washington while encouraging more and more Israelis to settle in the occupied West Bank.
Hamas’s brutal gambit, which aimed to put the Palestinian cause back on the front pages, spectacularly backfired. Washington has always seen Gaza through Israeli, not Palestinian eyes, and even more so since Trump returned to power. The years-long brutality and ruthlessness of Israeli occupiers is unprecedented.
As is the killing of close to 80,000 Palestinians in retaliation for the 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The Donald’s collection of real estate tycoons dealing with the Palestinian problem does not exactly encourage optimism for the disenfranchised.
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