CAPTION: Migrtant workers are vital for agriculture
The situation for the Israeli government aligning itself with Trump should give it cause for concern in the long run.
Pumped up by its bombing of Beirut, its taking of land inside the border of Syria, its truce with Hezbollah and its candidate winning the presidency, it now feels mighty.
It has devastated Gaza, leaving the survivors without shelter or medical facilities.
It is now attacking the Occupied West Bank with accelerated terrorist attacks by Jewish colonists, freed from the sanction’s imposed by Genocide Joe, and the Jenin Hospital has become an IDF target, with water and electricity cut off.
The compliant Palestine Authority has done nothing to protect its people.
While the Israeli right-wing glories in the Trump victory and his appointment of fanatical Christian Zionists to his administration, the road might be rockier than they envisaged.
Trump is a populist who can be swayed by flattery, and he can to some extent read the popular mind.
This makes him unpredictable. The change in public opinion on Israel will have an effect.
His diatribes against immigration from the south and his emphasis upon the cost of living, combined with claims he will restore American manufacturing by cutting imports via tariffs, made him popular across the nation.
He will of course be unable to deliver and indeed his promise to deport 11 million undocumented migrants, who largely work in agriculture will create food scarcity, necessitating imports made crushingly expensive.
Bernie Sanders, whose popularity terrified the conservative Democrat controllers so profoundly that they put up Biden, delivered an excellent analysis of what Trump did not talk about.
“What really struck me, however, is not what he said, which was not surprising given his general rhetoric – but what he didn’t say. The simple truth is that Donald Trump gave a major speech, the first speech of his second presidency, and ignored almost every significant issue facing the working families of this country.” [Guardian 23 January 2025]
This is his Achilles heel and failure to deliver will have consequences.
He ignored the matter of universal healthcare, a major problem for ordinary people. The corruption of the private insurance system costs billions but does not deliver for all.
He ignored the cost of prescriptions which about 20% cannot afford.
He ignored the 800,000 homeless and the millions paying more than 50% of their income for housing.
He ignored the fact that three men own more than the bottom half of the American population. Those three men sat behind him at the inauguration.
Since the November elections the three favoured men made $233billion yet the minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour.
His diatribes against immigration from the south and his emphasis upon the cost of living, combined with claims he will restore American manufacturing by cutting imports via tariffs, made him popular across the nation.
He will of course be unable to deliver and indeed his promise to deport 11 million undocumented migrants, who largely work in agriculture will create food scarcity, necessitating imports made crushingly expensive.
Although the Israeli lobby organisations tried to obscure Musk’s Nazi salute, calling it a Roman salute, the people were not all fooled.
The free rein being given on Twitter X to genuine anti-Semites, not just anti-Israel posts, suggest all is not well in that department.
Israeli reliance on its Big American Brother might be a case of a house built upon sand.
Once the American working class sees through the Trumpian theatrics and the cost of living continues to rise under oligarch rule, there will be a political upheaval.
Domestic terrorists like the released violent Jan 6 insurgents could well become another prpoblem.
Remember it was individual Republicans who were engaged in the two publicised assassination attempts on Trump.
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