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<article data-history-node-id="431773" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-trump-turning-gaza-brutal-colonial-protection-racket" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-trump-turning-gaza-brutal-colonial-protection-racket" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Opinion: Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The West has spent two years partnering with Israel in its campaign of wanton destruction in Gaza.</p> <p>Now the United States - with the permission of a cowed United Nations Security Council - has appointed Donald Trump to preside over the ruins.</p> <p>Like a Roman emperor, the US president will be able to dictate the fate of Gaza’s people with a simple gesture. Whatever he decides - whether the thumb turns up or down - it will be called "peace".&nbsp;</p> <p>Trump’s most likely side-kick in this depraved charade will be Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. He won his war-crime spurs more than 20 years ago, when he joined one of Trump’s predecessors, George W Bush, in launching an illegal invasion of Iraq and a subsequent, catastrophic occupation that left that country in ruins too.&nbsp;</p> <p>Satire cannot do justice to this moment.</p> <p>The eradication of Gaza could be achieved only with the complete hollowing out of international law - the legal global order that was established many decades ago to prevent a third world war and the horrors of the Holocaust.&nbsp;</p> <p>Marking the demise of that era, the Security Council voted 13-0 this week to endorse Trump’s "peace plan" for Gaza, with only Russia and China daring to abstain.&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trump-turning-gaza-brutal-colonial-protection-racket">Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket</a> Opinion by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/jonathan-cook" title="View user profile.">Jonathan Cook</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="US President Donald Trump takes questions from the press during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office of the White House on 18 November, 2025 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="5182c8b5-afcc-4fe4-83ab-d1a8a8b6b0c4" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/US%20President%20Donald%20Trump%20takes%20questions%20from%20the%20press%20during%20a%20meeting%20with%20Saudi%20Crown%20Prince%20in%20the%20Oval%20Office%20of%20the%20White%20House%20on%2018%20November%2C%202025%20%28AFP%29.jpg" width="1742" height="980" alt="US President Donald Trump takes questions from the press during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office of the White House on 18 November, 2025 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>US President Donald Trump takes questions from the press during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office of the White House on 18 November, 2025 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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