Donald Trump Wants Another Nakba
On 30 January 2025, I spoke with Steve Clemons on his Al Jazeera show: “The Bottom Line.” We talked about the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the stunning concessions Israel made to Hamas in the recent ceasefire agreement, and President Trump’s morally reprehensible commitment to help Israel drive all the Palestinians out of Gaza.
Trump only wants Gaza, Greenland and the Panama Canal to develop properties, monopolize natural resources and maximize profits. He’s not a politician. He’s a businessman and being president of the US just gave access to prime real estate and a military to go get it.
He's just following the capitalist script.
It is about wrapping capitalism in a protective mystical mantle.
All the paraphernalia invented by capitalism to hide its rottenness and make us swallow it as if it were a triumph of humanity, is based on fabricating appearances of distraction and anesthesia of reason. “Classical political economy moves within these appearances. It discovers the real connection, but does not expose it. This leads to the capitalist relations of production, appearing as eternal, natural and self-evident relations.”(Anti-Dühring, 1877, in Collected Works of Marx and Engels, volume 25).