Days before the US Presidential election on November 5th, front-runner and GOP candidate Donald Trump told a Michigan rally that “I am the candidate of peace.” The first President in two generations to not start a war, Trump had already made his commitment, if re-elected, to end the Ukraine war during his first 24 hours in office.    

Given Trump’s extraordinary triumph in 2016 by unexpectedly  defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was promoting a no-fly zone and war in Syria, my first vote after leaving the Democrats went to Trump as he promised ‘no new interventionist wars.’ It was then that I suspect Trump became obsessed with winning the Nobel Peace Prize during his first term.  

In 2024, by winning all the electoral college votes, an impressive nation-wide plurality as well as all seven targeted states, the remarkable electoral accomplishment confirmed Trump’s election as a truly exceptional candidate; a prime contender for the Nobel Prize.

Soon after the 2024 election,  Trump could not have missed that the International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant  for his buddy,  Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu thanks to his relentless genocidal attacks on Gaza Palestinians.  Neither the US nor Israel are members of the ICC which has no enforcement mechanism. 

Fast forward to March, 2025 when Yemen, perhaps the poorest country in the world, became the surprising object of a series of US air attacks. Attack on the Houthis became public after a group of Trump’s top national security team met via a Signal group chat to consider the possibility.  

The national security team were unaware that Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, a known Zionist who later published his transcript of the meeting was an inadvertent addition in attendance.  Goldberg had been curiously invited by perhaps Trump’s National Security Advisor Waltz who is known to have neo-con roots. While  Signal meeting participants offered no logic as to why Yemen should be attacked, Goldberg’s transcript confirmed that the Yemen attack was in response to Israel’s shipping vessels through the Red Sea. The Houthis are supporters of the Gaza Palestinians and have opposed Israel’s genocide on Gaza since Israel began its war on October 7^th. 

Also confirmed in Goldberg’s transcript were classified details regarding the weapon packages to be used in the attack, specific targets and timing of the attack.  As a result, several members of the National Security Council have since been fired.   

In  mid April the US has continued to over react when it hit Sana’a with eleven separate air strikes within one hour – on April 9^th the US State Department issued a statement labelling the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) threatening the “security of American civilians and personnel in the Middle East, the safety of our closest regional partners (Israel) and the stability of global maritime trade.  The Trump Administration is committed to protecting our national security interests.”

The fact is that the US has very little national security interest in the Red Sea with minimal American shipping as Vice President Vance mentioned in the Goldberg transcript that only 3% of US trade runs through the Suez canal. 

After the earlier Signal group hullabaloo faded, it became public  that Trump’s national security team had already conducted twenty other Signal ‘chats’ focused on ‘sensitive’ information with other Cabinet officials and high level staff in attendance regarding a wide range of international and national security topics. 

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After a recent lunch meeting with Netanyahu, Trump revealed a disturbing lack of intelligence regarding Israel’s history with the Palestinians who have lived in Gaza for two thousand years. With Netanyahu at his side, Trump illuminated his warped version of history:

“You know how I feel about the Gaza Strip.  I think it is an incredible piece of important real estate.  The level of death on the Gaza is just incredible and I’ve said it. I don’t understand why Israel ever gave it up.  Israel owned it.  It was this man’s (nodding towards Netanyahu), so I can say it.  He would not have given it up.  I know him very well.  They took ocean front property and gave it to people for peace.  How did that work out – not good. They gave it away for good intentions and it did not work out that way.”

Trump’s lack of the true antiquity of Gaza is not only startling but questions how Trump could become President without having studied the history of the Middle East, to be so unsophisticated and accept that Israel ‘owned’ Gaza without ever examining the truth of  Netanyahu’s claim.   

At which point, the world’s most notorious war criminal could only perjure himself: 

“I think what the President is talking about is to give people a choice.  Gazans were closed in, any other place including arenas of battle whether its Ukraine or Syria or any other place, people could leave.  Gaza was the only place where they locked them in.  We didn’t lock them in.  They were locked In, and what is wrong with giving people a choice.  

There are countries saying if Gazans want to leave, we’ll take them in. And I think this is the right thing to do.”

The point remains that Trump has no fantastical idea what he is talking about.  Does he have any concept of how ludicrous he sounds.  Netanyahu’s blather is a narrowly defined falsehood that only makes sense to suggest that it was Israel’s IDF that conducted an open air concentration camp with Gazan prisoners for the last 30-50 years.     

It appears that the American public is finally catching on. The latest Pew Research poll finds that 53% of Americans no longer refer to Israel as ‘favorable” while over 50% of Americans no longer have confidence in Netanyahu to handle international affairs.  In addition 62% of Americans do not support President Trump’s plan to take over and develop  the Gaza Strip.   

Currently the US government provides Israel with over $5.2 Billion annually for an air defense system.

At the same time, Secretary of State Marco Rubio touts that the US is unconstitutionally deporting and revoking the visas of 300 international students  by the Homeland Security Department from American universities for their ‘anti semitic’ activities.   

The brutal truth is that Gaza has been demolished –  with constant Israel bombardment there are few hospitals, schools or universities still standing in addition to  IDF’s constant assaults, over 90% of Palestinian homes have been eliminated. 

To return Gaza to a livable environment after the devastation it has suffered since October 7^th  would take an estimated 15 – 20 years. 

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Trump’s  most recent comments offered a ‘chilling’ threat to the Houthis. 

“It is time for the terrorists to hide, but it won’t do them any good.  Our fighters, the greatest the world has ever seen, will find them and bring them to swift justice.”

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Renee Parsons has been an elected public official in Colorado, served as staff in the Colorado State Public Defenders Office, been an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she also served on the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU’s Treasure Coast Chapter. She is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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