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The US war against the Palestinians, and the struggle to oppose it
ISSAM MAKHOUL, former member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and currently president of Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), talks to Noah Tucker
INDEFATIGABLE: Issam Makhoul [Author supplied]

WHAT is your view on Trump’s pronouncements on Gaza? How do these reflect on the US’s relationship with Israel and its role in the Middle East?

These declarations by Trump show a barbaric mentality; bringing to the Gaza issue a “cowboy” attitude from the American experience: removing the native people because the white man has decided it. 

We need to be clear that this has not really been a war against Hamas for reasons of security but a strategic war, planned in advance, with the goal of displacing and erasing the Palestinian population. Now Trump has said: I will fulfil this for you. 

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