Renowned Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin sat down with Sputnik to discuss why Donald Trump will destroy the liberal, rules-based international order and usher in an era of imperial civilizational states.

Donald Trump is a great, charismatic US leader, who aims to accomplish the massive task of making America great again, but this should not come at the cost of Russia or other great powers, Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin told Sputnik in an interview.

The US president is dropping the pretences and saying that America wants to be an old school ruthless empire, Dugin noted.

Watch the full interview to learn more!

 https://sputnikglobe.com/20250126/russian-philosopher-dugin-trumps-rise-marks-start-of-new-age-of-empires-1121492263.html

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By Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter 

Well that didn’t take long. President Trump has said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and relocate its population to U.S. client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. 

It would also align perfectly with longstanding Israeli agendas to remove Palestinians from their homeland so that their territory can be seized and settled by Jews.

Speaking with the press on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he talked to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about taking in large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza, and said he plans to speak with Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about doing the same.

“I’d like Egypt to take people and I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump told reporters, saying the Gaza Strip is “a real mess” and “literally a demolition site”.

“You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said.

The president said that this new arrangement could be either temporary or long-term, but one would have to be extremely naive to believe that either Israel or Washington plan on emptying out Gaza of its inconvenient population, rebuilding it, and then bringing them all back to shiny new homes. 

Israel has a very extensive history of grabbing land from Palestinians and then refusing to give it back, which is why there are so-called “refugee camps” for displaced Palestinians that are as old as the state of Israel itself.

“Just five days into his second term as president, Trump left no doubt about what his intentions are for Gaza,” Joe Lauria wrote for Consortium News on Trump’s comments, adding, “He tried to present what he was saying as humanitarian concern, but only the most ill-informed person about Gaza would not see that he is talking about committing the crime of forcibly relocating a population.”

Trump supporters will no doubt defend his stated plans as a compassionate effort to rescue Palestinians from unfortunate circumstances, because Trump supporters are chowder-brained bootlickers who would defend literally anything their president did. 

But make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, and would fulfill the darkest desires of the most depraved political factions in Israel.

Mere days after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 2023, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry produced a document proposing the removal of Gaza’s population to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. 

At around the same time, an Israeli think tank called the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a paper arguing that “There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.”

Since that time both the Israeli government and the Israeli media have gotten much less shy about saying that ethnic cleansing is the plan for Gaza. 

A few weeks ago multiple far-right Knesset members wrote a letter to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz demanding the “complete cleansing” of northern Gaza using siege warfare and attacks on civilians to drive the population out of the area. 

In November of last year, former Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon stated unequivocally that Israel was indeed in the process of ethnically cleansing Gaza. In October, the Israeli outlet Haaretz published an editorial titled “If It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing, It Probably Is”.

One narrative Israel and its apologists like to push is that this forced mass displacement would be “voluntary migration”, which is ridiculous nonsense. 

Obviously if you make a place completely uninhabitable and refuse to rush massive amounts of aid to them so that they can live, you are forcing them to relocate as surely as if you’d forced them at gunpoint. Giving people the choice to relocate or starve is not giving them a choice at all.

Israel’s plan for Gaza once its ethnic cleansing agenda is complete is of course to begin building Jewish settlements there. Last year Israeli forces sparked a minor controversy by sneaking extremist settlement movement leader Daniella Weiss into northern Gaza so that she could scout the land for future use. 

Back in April a Knesset member named Limor Son Har-Melech stated on Israeli television that there are secret plans within the Israeli government to settle Gaza after military operations are complete. 

This past November numerous Israeli officials attended an event brazenly titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” just in case you needed it spelled out even more clearly where all this appears to be headed.

Trump’s comments help illuminate what he meant when he gushed about all the wonderful things that could be done with Gaza when speaking to the press the other day.

“Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location,” he said on Monday. “On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.”

It remains to be seen if Jordan and Egypt can be bribed or coerced into participating in the empire’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, but either way the last word I would use to describe those plans is “fantastic.”

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HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

by mike whitney

No one is more responsible for the October 7 attacks than Donald Trump. He was the one who launched the Abraham Accords, which aimed to “make the Palestinian question disappear” and to plunge a knife into the heart of the two-state solution. By seducing Arab leaders into bilateral deals that ignored previous commitments to a sovereign Palestinian state, Trump had sought to crush Palestinian aspirations and eliminate the issue altogether. Faced with ever-deepening isolation and irrelevance, Hamas launched an offensive in the hope that the international community would take notice and come to its aid. In short, the root cause of the October 7 attacks was Trump’s Abraham Accords, the false peace initiative that paved the way for genocide.

It is worth noting that Joe Biden confirmed much of this analysis when he said on October 25:

«I am convinced that one of the reasons why Hamas attacked at that time… was because of the progress we were making toward Israel's regional integration and regional integration in general…»

By “regional integration,” Biden is referring to the Abraham Accords, which were promoted as a way for Arab countries to “normalize” relations with Israel and “advance the Middle East peace process.” But don’t let the hype fool you. The accords were just the second phase of Trump’s lopsided gift to Israel. As some readers may recall, the first phase of Trump's so-called Middle East peace plan"provided for a unified Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the major Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which amounted to the annexation of about 30% of the territory. The Palestinians were given desert areas near the Egyptian border, limited sovereignty and a non-contiguous state with numerous Israeli enclaves…»

So, with a wave of his hand, Trump broke with all his presidential predecessors, with all the UN resolutions in force and with the traditional foreign policy of the United States dating back five decades. And that was just the beginning, because – as we now know – The Abraham Accords set off a domino effect that led inexorably to the collapse of Gaza and the displacement of two million civilians. As the author of the Accords, Trump bears much of the blame for the ongoing catastrophe.

It is important to keep in mind that the agreements have nothing to do with peace or normalization. As Dana El Kurd, a senior researcher at the Arab Center, said, "Presenting the Abraham Accords as a “peace” agreement that would have increased stability between the signatories is deliberately misleading… It is certain that Arab-Israeli normalization cannot be considered “peace,” but rather must be understood as authoritarian conflict management. From this perspective, it is possible to understand more clearly how the agreements have changed the landscape of the region and why the continuation of such a policy leads to an untenable future…»

“Authoritarian conflict management”? What does that mean?

This means that the incentives to participate The agreements had more to do with strengthening domestic repression than with promoting regional peace. Here's more:

«The United Arab Emirates, for example, has expanded its relationships with Israeli companies specializing in repressive technologies and invested in the Israeli defense industry. The Moroccan government has also taken advantage of normalization to acquire similar capabilities. The impact has been felt very directly in some cases, with journalists, activists, and intellectuals targeted and often imprisoned. Everyone wins, both Israel and the signatory countries. Arab regimes can suppress the last vestiges of dissent in the region, and Israel can facilitate investment in its defense and cybersecurity industries while helping to minimize critical spaces regarding its role in the region and its continued oppression of Palestinians.

Let's be clear... Israel is not the only source of surveillance or other repressive technologies, and Arab governments have certainly looked for other sources. However, Arab-Israeli normalization exacerbates this dynamic and increases the capabilities of these regimes by diversifying their sources of support…»1

The Abraham Accords are therefore not an attempt to "advance the Middle East peace process", but a plan to strengthen the tyrannical dictatorships that the US and Israel need to advance their regional agenda, which means that the only normalization taking place is the normalization of the 75-year occupation and the ongoing slaughter of Palestinian women and children. Here’s more:

"It is therefore inaccurate to describe Arab-Israeli normalization as 'peace.' Rather, it is a process that rejects genuine negotiations and deeper reflection on the reasons for the conflict, and instead uses coercion and state power to achieve various goals. In other words, the Abraham Accords and everything that has followed since can only be seen as an authoritarian management of the conflict… (because) any normalization of relations with Israel leads to repression, as regimes begin to proactively repress those who would oppose this development…”[1]

And who would oppose the normalization of relations with Israel?

Almost all Arabs in the Middle East, that's who.

And that brings us to our next point…

As anyone who has followed developments in the region knows, Israel never intended to implement UN Resolution 242 or allow the creation of a Palestinian state. The Abraham Accords were the brainchild of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who wanted to circumvent UN resolutions while making the Palestinian issue disappear once and for all. This is Trump’s basic strategy forced Hamas to take drastic measures to disrupt the normalization process while refocusing attention on Palestine.

We have already mentioned that the cynical and so-called Trump’s “Deal of the Century” convinced Hamas that the Palestinian people were facing an existential crisis that could only be averted by launching a massive attack that would force other countries to get directly involved. This is the logic that motivated the October 7 attacks. Despite this, few analysts have seen through the ruse and revealed the truth about what really happened. Branko Marcetic is one such journalist who revealed the details of Trump's scam in a gripping article published on Responsible Statecraft. Here is an excerpt from his article:

«... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Donald Trump warned in October 2020 that terrorist violence was about to ignite imminently… (DHS) stressed, regarding the Abraham Accords : the U.S.-led effort to normalize relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors… The resulting Abraham Accords were, at least in the neoconservative world, considered a stroke of “genius.” Rather than finding a solution to the seemingly intractable question of Palestinian statehood, they have simply put it aside...

The signatories abandoned this long-standing precondition by restoring diplomatic relations and deepening security and economic cooperation with Israel, while Trump showered them with rewards, such as an arms deal for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and U.S. recognition of Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara. This move effectively supplanted the Saudi government’s Arab Peace Initiative, which since its introduction in 2002 had been the bedrock of the Arab world’s agenda for resolving the conflict, with the Palestinians at the forefront.

The fundamental and cynical assumption of the new normalization agreements was that the plight of the Palestinians could be safely ignored and forgotten. by governments in the region and by the international community as a whole… As the Arab states have begun to progressively deepen their ties with Israel, they have increasingly moved away from their historical positions…

The normalization process has continued despite what would have previously been seen as an unacceptable provocation against both the Palestinians and Islam itself. Supporters of the accords hailed the move as proof that the ongoing crackdown on Palestinians could be safely ignored. But The Palestinian issue could not simply be ignored, and the signing of the agreements created a set of contradictions that fueled the tensions that erupted on October 7.

The Palestinians themselves, in opinion polls, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have called this situation a "betrayal", a "treacherous stab in the back" and a "grave harm". Hamas has also called for "an integrated plan to end normalization".

While Hamas reportedly planned the operation for two years and claimed it was motivated by years of violence at Al-Aqsa, Nor can his attack be understood without the bipartisan push for Israeli-Arab normalization at the expense of the Palestinians, and the outrage, anger, and despair it has inspired.

What is clear is that, given Hamas' extraordinary violence, the broader regional war it threatens to unleash, and the large pro-Palestinian protests in Arab countries in response to Israel's bombing campaign, almost All the assumptions underlying the Abraham Accords were disastrously wrong, including the idea that rejecting the Palestinians would create a more peaceful Middle East. Forget “peace,” did the Abraham Accords pave the way for conflict? between Israel and Gaza?»2

Great summary, but let's recap:

1. The heads of the department of Homeland Security warned Trump that unrest was brewing because the Abraham Accords incited "terrorist violence». (So ​​October 7th was not unexpected. It was planned.)
2. The Department of Homeland Security has expressed concern that instead of "finding a solution to the question of Palestinian statehood, the agreements simply put it aside...» (Once again, the immediate cause of October 7 has been identified but ignored).
3. Instead of dealing with the Palestinian issue in a fair and rational manner «Trump showered Arab leaders with rewards" with the clear intention of forcing them to give up their support for Palestine. (This sounds like bribery)
4. «As the Arab states have begun to gradually deepen their ties with Israel, they have increasingly moved away from their historical positions» which refers to the 2002 Arab peace proposal that demanded that all Arab states oppose normalization with Israel until Israel accepts the creation of a Palestinian state on territory occupied since 1967.
5. Hamas, for its part, called for "an integrated plan to end normalization» (very important). Hamas has identified “normalization” (the Abraham Accords) as an existential threat that must be countered.
6. «The Hamas attack also cannot be understood without the bipartisan push for Israeli-Arab normalization at the expense of the Palestinians., and the indignation, anger and despair it inspired"In short, the Abraham Accords precipitated the October 7 attacks.

One last thought:

There is another intriguing aspect of the October attacks that has been largely ignored by mainstream experts, and it is related to this short question: What was the strategic objective of the October 7 attacks?

What was Hamas's goal?

The media would have us believe that Hamas had no strategic goals, that it simply wanted to “kill or capture Jews” to satisfy a deeply racist desire. But this is absurd. We have already shown that Trump approved the seizure of new Palestinian lands while at the same time actively sabotaging Palestinian relations with its Arab neighbors. Which proves that It was Hamas that had its back to the wall, not Israel. The Palestinian state was doomed to annihilation unless steps were taken to reverse the course of events and prevent Palestinians from becoming further isolated, marginalized and “disappeared.”

But how could a small, poorly armed militia do anything that would meaningfully change the outcome sought by Israel and its superpower friend?

This is the dilemma that Hamas has faced, and this is why he opted for a desperate strategy of pushing Israel into overreacting, which would allow the rest of the world to see the inhumanity and cruelty of the Zionist state. This was the goal, and we know this because the plan was detailed by Hamas’ political and military leader, Yahya Sinwar, who issued the following statement in a short video on Twitter. Here’s what he said:

«In a limited period of a few months – which I believe will not exceed a year – we will force the occupation to face two options: either we force it to apply international law, to respect international resolutions, to withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem, dismantle settlements, release prisoners and ensure the return of refugees, by achieving the creation of a Palestinian state on the lands occupied in 1967 , including Jerusalem; either we place this occupation in a state of contradiction and collision with the entire international order, isolate it in an extreme and powerful manner, and put an end to its integration in the region and in the whole world, by remedying the state of collapse that has occurred on all resistance fronts in recent years». SuppressedNews

The above statement lays out Sinwar’s strategy in clear and unambiguous prose. October 7 was a clear provocation aimed at taking advantage of Israel’s insatiable appetite for violence and slaughter. Sinwar not only knew that Israel would overreact, he was counting on it. He expected them to do exactly what they have been doing for the past 15 months: destroy everything in their path, kill tens of thousands of civilians and reduce the entire Gaza Strip to a field of ruins. Israel's overreaction was the only way for Hamas to breathe new life into the Palestinian cause, because it was the only way for it to gain the sympathy and support of the international community. That was Sinwar's strategy in a nutshell: provoke Israel and hope that other nations would feel morally compelled to step in and stop the slaughter. It was a risky bet, but it was the only option.

In fact, Sinwar's strategy has largely succeeded, except that Washington has blocked all efforts by the international community to resolve the crisis, deploy peacekeeping forces, or implement the relevant UN resolutions. Despite this, Israel remains (as Sinwar predicted) "in a state of contradiction and collision with the international order as a whole, (and) extremely and powerfully isolated"Recent surveys indicate a significant decline in global support for Israel… (A Morning Consult poll showed that favorable opinions of Israel have declined in 42 of 43 countries surveyed since the war.) And the damage to (Israel's) reputation is getting worse by the day. If an attempt is made to “cleanse” Gaza (as Trump has said), then Israel will be labeled a global pariah for decades to come, perhaps forever. And while this designation may not bother Israelis today, they will eventually see how it undermines their broader interests and their collective sense of self-worth. Eventually, Israel will either comply with international resolutions and humanitarian law or face a painful future of hardship, isolation, and disgrace.

In any case, Sinwar clearly followed the only strategy that had a chance of succeeding. In fact, he might have succeeded if Washington had withheld its massive shipment of 2000-pound bombs and other deadly weapons. But now that the United States has become a party to the genocide, the struggle for statehood is bound to take longer. It will require the same courage and determination that the Palestinian people have shown since the conflict began 76 years ago. Ultimately, they will prevail.

source: The Unz Review

translated by Maria Poumier

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