Trump Holds the Door While Israel Burns the House Down

The New York Times wants you to believe it’s breaking news: Israel is annexing the West Bank. As if settlers with Uzis terrorizing farmers, torching cars, and mowing down Palestinians were just a quirky frontier hobby until now.

The reality? The “slow-motion theft” has simply shifted into fast-forward. Netanyahu and Smotrich don’t even bother whispering anymore — they say it on live TV: No Palestinian state. This land is ours. They sign documents to prove it, announce E1 like it’s a shopping mall opening, and proudly bury the two-state solution that Washington kept embalmed in its freezer for thirty years.

And America? Don’t worry — Marco Rubio is on the job. The “Secretary of State” flew in, grinned for the cameras, and shrugged annexation off as “not a final thing.” Translation: burn the West Bank, it’s fine, just leave the ashes neat. Mike Huckabee, the ambassador who apparently skipped Diplomatic School for Bible Study, confirmed what we already knew: the U.S. has never — and will never — tell Israel no.

Meanwhile, Trump beams from Florida, calling this “letting Israel make its own decisions.” That’s like letting an arsonist “decide” if they want to pour more gasoline.

Let’s pause here.

Nearly 1,000 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023.
Over a thousand settler attacks documented by the U.N. this year.
Crops slashed, homes torched, children buried.
And still, Washington’s “red line” is only ink on other people’s maps.

But the pièce de résistance: Smotrich’s grand plan to annex 82% of the West Bank and squeeze millions of Palestinians into scattered ghettos. Call it what it is: apartheid with better branding.

Yet Congress yawns. The Republican majority sips wine in settlement dinners, quoting “Judea and Samaria” as though they were flipping through Genesis instead of international law. Democrats write performative letters no one reads. And the UAE — of all places — has to remind the world that annexation might be a “red line.”

So let’s drop the polite fictions. This isn’t about “security.” It isn’t about “peace.” It’s about conquest, sanctified by scripture and subsidized by U.S. tax dollars. Gaza burns, the West Bank is carved into pieces, and America’s role is to nod approvingly while holding the door open.

History will remember the images: settlers marching, soldiers firing, diplomats shrugging. And it will remember the silence of those who could have stopped it but preferred to pretend the fire was “complicated.”

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