Trump 2.0 has come out swinging, enacting a flurry of executive orders along the lines of what he had promised during his election campaign.

A short list of the most important pronouncements will help to understand the implications of Trump’s frantic, hurried interventions. First and foremost, Trump’s outlandish suggestion to “clean Gaza”. Trump thinks Gaza is now a “demolition site” after Israel’s genocidal over one year’s war has left little else but crumbling ruins in the Strip.

In Trump’s ‘humanitarian’ heart is the notion that Jordan and Egypt should accept around a million and a half people out of Gaza’s population of about 2.4 million in order to build housing for them in the countries of their displacement and offer them safe and peaceful lives after their unprecedented travails. Surprise, surprise, this outlandish notion finds no takers, from Gaza’s ruined and displaced people to Hamas, the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Jordan or Egypt.

Gaza’s people affirm they wish to return to their homes, a desire temporarily stymied by the Israeli army’s refusal to let displaced denizens return to their (destroyed) homes in the north, a glitch that latest reports assure may be overcome now that one Israeli prisoner to be originally released last Saturday has now been handed........

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