Written By Hamdi Dubla
World leaders are flocking to the United States to attend the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, scheduled for later today, Monday, and at the forefront of them, of course, are many leaders of Arab and Islamic countries, seeking to appease and win the favor of the old-new master of the White House.
Today, the celebrated ceremony will be held, the cost of which reached a record sum exceeding 170 million dollars, and tomorrow, the most controversial president will assume his duties in leading the greatest country in the world, the most criminal, brutal, and contradictory between what it claims and what it implements in reality, from blind bias towards the oppressors, the corrupt, the tyrants, and the occupiers, for the next four years, which many political analysts believe will be full of exceptional events, contradictions, and changes.
There are those who are trying, in a strange way, to attribute the credit for achieving the agreement to stop the aggression on Gaza to Trump and to present him as a hero of peace, while he – as both friend and foe know – is more hostile and hateful to Palestine and the Islamic nation and its issues and rights than anyone else, and during his last term he did what no American president dared to do to support the Zionist entity and violate Palestinian and Islamic rights, and he did that openly and in front of all witnesses.
Trump revealed the priorities of his foreign policy regarding the Middle East by recently talking about expanding the circle of normalization that he began 4 years ago, but that will not be through temptations and through the policy of enticement – as the rulers of the region think – but rather through the methods of blackmail and bullying that he prefers.
For those who are optimistic and happy with Trump’s arrival, we remind the region’s rulers of the last thing Trump said – according to what was reported by the Daily News two days ago – where he said word for word while commenting on the huge losses caused by the California fires, “The use of our resources to protect the ruling regimes in the Gulf is what led to the exacerbation of our losses in the fire disaster..”
He added, according to the newspaper: We have been providing them with a free service for decades, which has cost us a lot, and they must pay us the price of their protection, and retroactively, if it were not for our protection of them, today all the sheikhdoms, emirates and kingdoms of the Gulf would be Iranian states that speak the Persian language, and Mecca would be the capital of the “Houthi state”, according to his description.
Trump goes on to ask: Is Saudi Arabia asking us to ignore the application of our laws regarding the case of Khashoggi, who holds permanent residency in our country? Are the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain asking us to ignore their involvement in the war in Sudan that destroyed an entire country? .. And are Kuwait, Qatar and Oman asking us to ignore their failure to conclude arms deals with us for a long time? – Trump concludes his speech: We tell them very clearly that the price is very high and my administration is not like previous administrations.
It is shameful and ignorant for some to bet on a man like Trump to win the Palestinian cause or change the compass of American policy towards Middle East issues, as he will in fact not be better off than the criminals and tyrants who preceded him from the residents of the White House.
