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Published on: 28/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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A spate of instant-coffee-quick columns claimed that Israel had lost the “war” and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been “humiliated” since, though damaged, Hamas has emerged intact and still in strutting command of Gaza. I feared that the credit, if not praise, that then-US President-elect Donald Trump had brokered the deal to silence the guns while the Biden administration dithered, would be replaced quickly by disappointment and bitter betrayal. Trump-friendly property developers would profit handsomely by ridding Gaza of Palestinians to make way for rampaging Israeli settlers and a host of seaside resorts. All of it, every crazed, diabolical ounce of it is the stuff of dreams for Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s genocide-giddy finance minister, Jared Kushner, and the president’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, who is reportedly “mulling over I fear that the Trump-appointed zealots, who believe there is no such thing as a Palestinian, that Israel has “biblical” dominion over the West Bank, and that a Third Temple should be erected on the debris of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, will prevail during the next four years. I have little faith in that same cowardly “international community” standing in Trump’s bulldozing way if he and his equally callous confederates decide to

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