Trump has a choice: Obliterate Palestine or end the war https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trump-two-choices-obliterate-palestine-end-war David Hearst 7 November 2024 Under Trump and his son-in-law adviser, Jared Kushner, Washington became a policy playground for the settler movement, with which the former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was unashamedly aligned.
The Zionist dream of a liberal, secular, democratic Jewish state had been the main vehicle of Israeli expansion, with its salami slices making ever-deeper inroads into historic Palestine. By killing it, the liberal fig leaf dropped from the Zionist project, and the religious Zionist forces who were once regarded as fringe and even as terrorists, such as far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir and the Kahanists, became mainstream. This fundamentally altered the whole project to establish Israel as the dominant state between the river and sea.