THE PIG, THE JACKAL AND THE FLOWERS

What can Netanyahu's trip to Washington DC mean and what can come out of the dealings with his friend Donald Trump?

 

By Dany Smith

When someone asks, “What is the animal that eats shit? They usually say “the pig”, but they are wrong because it eats what men give it. The animals we are talking about here are the so-called “political animals”, those that emerge from their societies and are a true reflection of them. There is a class of political animals that really eat shit, they like it and make of it their political capital. Precisely two of them met this past February 2 and this does not bode well.

In the media of the region and especially in Argentina (Buenos Aires), Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Donald Trump went under the radar. Not at all. I would rather say that it was covered very tersely, without stridency and making it as important as possible, given that there are reasons of power for it. Not to blame them, the media businessmen and their politicians have had their asses sold for a long time, and they have been offering it for so long that they have already taken a liking to it.

The first is that Mr. Netanyahu has an international arrest warrant over his head for war crimes and genocide, which means that, even if he enjoys political support and complicity in the hemisphere, if a malfunction should occur in his plane forcing him to land at an intermediate airport, someone could order his arrest as soon as he touches the ground. If something like that were to happen at some stopover, what would Tel Aviv do, would it send a commando to free him?

Netanyahu arrived in Washington without problems and met with his great fan, Donald Trump who, as we already know, is a recalcitrant Zionist and that means very bad news for the Palestinians and the Arab-Islamic world in general. “Bibi” did not go in search of peaceful solutions or mediations to end the conflict, he just wants to take advantage of the tenant of The White House and he knows he can get them What are the objectives of his visit?

There is no doubt that the first of all is to obtain support to survive politically in crucial moments in the Israeli political scenario, since his decision to accept the ceasefire (which in reality is partial and repeatedly violated) has earned him the growing opposition of his Talmudic extremist partners and, in turn, has not stopped the protests and claims of the families of the hostages who have not yet been released and of those who were killed by IDF fire.

Included in this objective is the power to circumvent any impartial and serious investigation into the role it played in triggering October 7, 2023 and the real implications that its top security officials, especially the head of the Mossad, the Shin Bet internal security and the head of LAKAM military intelligence, had. There are many knots in the chain of events of that morning that nobody is sure about and that the Israelis themselves have been claiming. That brings us to Netanyahu's clarification of the business dealings he is involved in with private entrepreneurs to seize and exploit the gas field under the waters just off the Gaza coast.

The second objective is to get Trump to involve more resources in the region to try to destroy the Palestinian resistance, contain (despite controlling the Lebanese army) a possible resurgence of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and at the same time, to dupe Riyadh into easing its position that will lead it to sign an agreement with Tel Aviv. If Netanyahu will achieve that, the situation of the Palestinians would worsen since, as we saw and continue to see, Israel will be able to restart the war to exterminate them definitively with the purpose -among others- of annexing the Gaza Strip and turning it into a new lot for Jewish settlements with imported settlers.

If this were so, it would mean that Netanyahu is not interested in the fate of the remaining hostages and even, according to his already known way of reasoning, more deaths involving Israelis would serve him to perpetuate himself in power although with a serious risk of greater internal divisions.

For the time being, the reality is what marks the situation in the area and it stands out for the constant violation of the ceasefire by the Israeli forces and their settlers who have extended their crimes to the West Bank where they have already committed new massacres in Jenin, Tulkarem and surrounding villages without (as we are accustomed to) the United Nations pronouncing itself on the matter.

Knowing of these real intentions and that his known surreptitious maneuvers to manipulate the opinion of his own and with the obvious intention of doing so with Trump, there are sources that report that some relatives of the hostages also traveled to Washington DC, but they did it on their own because when they asked the government, Netanyahu himself denied them the possibility of it. If this is true, what does Netanyahu and his entourage want to hide?

The answer is very obvious and has nothing to do with seeking a permanent ceasefire, negotiating the release of all the remaining hostages or working for a real and lasting peace. These relatives and the opponents in the Knesset are convinced of his plans and they are only aimed at pleasing the religious extremists who support him.

That is why we cannot expect anything positive from this meeting and even if a document were to come out of this event we should be suspicious and not give credence to what is said there.