It Could Happen Here - What Happens to Gaza Under Trump

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Robert sits down and walks through the reactions to Trump's victory among Gazans, and the different possibilities for what comes next. Sources: Palestinians dismayed by Trump's win, their leaders urge peace | Reuters Gaza’s Cease-Fire Talks Will Probably Wait Until After Trump’s Inauguration - The New York Times ‘Israel will keep invading – with more ease’: Gaza dreads Trump presidency | Features News | Al Jazeera Trump Wants to End Gaza War on Israel’s Terms Trump's election promises even more pain for Palestinians U.S. presidential election: Why Trump's phone call with Netanyahu is so alarming. Israeli Officials Embrace Trump Victory, Despite His Unpredictability - The New York Times Donald Trump uses expletive to attack ex-ally Benjamin Netanyahu No guarantees Trump will give Netanyahu all he wantsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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come again on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to It Could Happen Here. I'm Robert Evans, and, you know, along with all of our other correspondents, I'm looking forward to what we can expect from the Trump administration, which is a broad and far-reaching question given the ambitions that Trump and the others who I think will be involved in this new administration have already expressed. And the elevator pitch theme of today's episode is what's going to happen in Gaza once Trump is president again? Will things get better or worse? Obviously, the expectation is worse. I think that's where certainly the safe money goes if you're putting money on this. But the short answer to that question is no one fully knows. Now, the first thing that I did when

trying to prepare for this episode was track down as many articles as I could that included interviews with Gazans about their expectations. And those expectations were largely negative, but a little more mixed than you might expect. A Reuters reporter interviewed Abu Osama, living in Khan Yunus in the southern Gaza Strip. He called Trump's election a, quote, new catastrophe in the history of the Palestinian people, adding, despite the destruction, death, and displacement that we have witnessed, what is coming will be more difficult. It will be politically devastating. This essentially agrees with what a Palestinian from Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, Ahmed Jarad, told Al Jazeera, quote, Trump and Netanyahu are an evil alliance against the Palestinians,

and our fate will be very difficult, not only in the fateful issues, but also in our daily concerns. This is a sad day for Palestinians. Trump will endorse Netanyahu's free hand regarding the possibility of the return of settlements to the Gaza Strip, and even the displacement of large numbers of Palestinians outside it. We hope to return to the north, and now all of our hopes have been shattered. And unfortunately, Jarad's fears here have been immediately proven well-founded. On November 6th, as the rest of the world reeled from Trump's victory, IDF Brigadier General Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters, there is no intention of allowing the residents of the

northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes. Humanitarian aid would only be allowed to enter through the south. His justification was that there are no more civilians in the north. Reporting from The Guardian interviewed several international humanitarian law experts, and the members of that likely dying field described Israeli actions here as war crimes. The forcible transfer of civilian populations and the use of food as a weapon are supposed to be banned. Despite this, we can safely assume that there will be no serious consequences as a result of any of this. Now, the timing of this announcement was predominant, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that Israel might not have been as bold as they're currently being if Harris had won.

Another Gazan, 70-year-old Dr. Zakia Hilal, told Al Jazeera, It is true that American administrations do not differ in supporting Israel, but some are more severe and more intense than others, like Trump. You can find numerous Gazans expressing feelings along these lines if you read long enough, but you will also find a number who feel like what's coming won't be worse, or at least won't be very different from what they've already endured. Jihad Malaka, a researcher at the Palestinian Planning Center, told Al Jazeera he does not expect Trump's administration to be wildly different from Biden's in this regard.

Trump uses rough tools, and Biden and the Democrats resort to soft tools, but the politics are the same. Biden did not make any decision in favor of the Palestinians and was unable to achieve a ceasefire. He did not change the reality of the decisions of his predecessor Trump at all. The positions of the two administrations regarding Israel are the same and identical, and they put its interests above all other considerations. You can also find some Gazans who see a sliver of hope in Trump's new administration. Reuters spoke with the owner of a grocery store in Gaza,

Khaled D'Souza, who told their reporter, I think Donald Trump, if he wins, he promised the Muslim people in America to stop the war in Gaza. We hope that happens. And it's not necessarily absurd to hope that there may be some positive effects here. Trump has said many horrible things about Palestinians,

obviously, several weeks before the election. He had a phone call with Netanyahu that may have been a violation of the Logan Act, although laws don't really matter anymore. Here's how Slate.com summarized what happened in that call. According to Trump, the Israeli leader said he disregarded President Joe Biden's warning to keep troops out of Rafah in southern Gaza, a decision that resulted in the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Senwar in a shootout in the area. Trump also said Netanyahu asked him for advice on how to respond to Iran's missile attack on Israel, to which Trump said he responded, do whatever you

have to do. Now, that's a dire sign, and it is impossible to imagine that a new Trump regime won't restart the sale and shipment of specific munitions that Biden banned for export to Israel. This July, Biden halted the shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to the IDF because, quote, they cannot be used in Gaza or any populated area without causing great human tragedy and damage. Now, the fact that munitions like this will very likely be used is hideous, and I think it's extremely unlikely that we do not see

an immediate rise in the death toll. But at the same time, Israel's extant acts have caused great human tragedy and damage. The munitions they have have already been responsible for calamitous death and destruction on a fairly wide scale. So where's the cause for any optimism on this at all? It comes from Trump's own self-interest. As Khalid D'Souza noted,

Trump ran promising to end wars. This means he does have some vested interest, even if only in his own ego, in forcing Netanyahu to draw things to a close in short order. And there is indeed reporting that Trump has told Netanyahu to wrap things up by January

so that he can take office with an end to the conflict and ideally use that as a way to kind of bolster his early popularity and gain some political capital for the other sweeping changes he wants to make. Now, the fact that Trump is pushing Netanyahu on ending things in January doesn't mean a sudden peaceful ceasefire. For one thing, nothing is going to happen in the months between then and now to reduce the level of bloodshed. And almost every likely theoretical ends with Israel massively escalating violence and using new, more destructive weapons before bringing an end to their campaign.

But it does mean that Trump might be able to pressure Bibi to bring things to an end. There's a good article on this in the BBC. No guarantees Trump will give Netanyahu all he wants. Now in that piece, Mideast correspondent Lucy Williamson writes, Donald Trump's first term in office was exemplary as far as Israel is concerned, said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States.

The hope is that he'll revisit that, but we have to be very clear-sighted about who Donald Trump is and what he stands for. Firstly, he said, the former president doesn't like wars, seeing them as expensive. Trump has urged Israel to finish the war in Gaza quickly. He's also not a big fan of Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank, said Ambassador Oren, and has opposed the wishes of some Israeli leaders to annex parts of it. Both of these policies could put him in conflict with far-right parties

in Netanyahu's current governing coalition, who have threatened to bring down the government if the prime minister pursues policies they reject. Michael Oren believes Netanyahu will need to take a different approach with the incoming president. If Donald Trump comes to office in January and says, okay, you have a week to finish the war,

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means that we will probably see a massive escalation in violence as the IDF seeks to force more people out of northern Gaza and end the conflict with a large slice of Gaza permanently wrenched from Palestinian control and handed over to Israeli settlers. There is no version of what comes next that is not a calamity to the Palestinian people. Now, the signs from within the Israeli government on what a new Trump administration means for them are certainly bullish, you could say. And reading these tea leaves provides very little fuel for optimism. Itmar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security,

posted yes with several S's and an emoji of a flexed bicep in a post on social media when the first good returns started coming in for Trump. On the day of the election itself, and a sign of confidence in the coming results, Bibi Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yov Galant, who had been his primary point of contact with the Biden administration.

And it's harder to imagine a much more direct sign of what he wants to do than that. Now, I've struggled to present the sweep of possible results of this, and it bears reiterating that the bulk of predictions from Gazans who are plugged into the politics of the region are incredibly negative. Ahmed Fayyad, an independent researcher in Israeli affairs who currently resides in central Gaza, told Al Jazeera that he felt Trump's influence would be entirely negative,

adding that Trump was a, quote, more dominating figure than Biden, and his influence would allow Netanyahu to, quote, conquer Gaza. Quote, amidst the weakened Palestinian front and absence of any Arab unity and solidarity, the whole Palestinian cause faces its worst threat yet. Now, what does bear watching is the degree to which Bibi might face threats from his own right flank. Netanyahu himself

is almost certainly on the side of doing what will please his patron Trump all the more, and that would be forcing a quick, violent end to the fighting and taking northern Gaza as the spoils of war. But this might bring him into conflict with radicals on his own side, who can't be placated by anything but what they would see as total victory. In the event Netanyahu feels pushed, it is not impossible that he will wind up in conflict with Trump. This has happened before, as Bibi's sense of self-preservation led him to take actions that enraged Trump. The best example of this took place in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, if you want to think back to those happier days. Beebe was again the first world leader to call

and offer Biden congratulations on his victory as he was with Trump. This is a habit for the man, who, among other things, is an expert at toadying for favor with U.S. leaders. Trump was livid, and he spoke out about this, telling Israeli journalist Barak Ravid that he believed that he had saved Israel from destruction, and in response, Netanyahu had stabbed him in the back. I'm going to quote now from an article in the BBC. Mr. Trump accused Mr. Netanyahu of congratulating too quickly Mr. Trump's successor, Joe Biden, on winning the 2020 U.S. election. Mr. Trump disputed the election result, though his claims were never upheld. The first person who congratulated Joe Biden was Bibi, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has

made a terrible mistake. He was very early, Mr. Trump said, like earlier than most. I haven't spoken to him since. Fuck him. I actually don't know that he said fuck. The actual text of the article says expletive him, but I'm assuming he said fuck him. I think that's probably a fair assumption for me to make. Now, some evidence does suggest that Trump and Bibi don't personally get along, as that quote I just read implies. Certainly not to the degree that Netanyahu and Biden once did. Once, I should say. This may hinge partly on the fact that Trump really only believes in himself and his own benefit, whereas Joe Biden was a strong and committed believer in Israel

and was willing to take actions against his own political self-interest in furtherance of that belief, and we've all seen where those actions got him. Just last December, Trump attacked Netanyahu at an early campaign rally in New York, saying Bibi had, quote, let us down by pulling Israeli support for the operation that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani at the last minute. He also criticized the Israeli leader for not being prepared for Hamas's October 7th attack. Now, I want to be clear here that these divisions between both men are blisteringly unlikely to mean anything that approaches relief for the Palestinian people, at least in the near term. The immediate and probably long-term future of Gaza is much bleaker today than it was a few weeks ago.

The Guardian recently published an article interviewing former CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta. He predicted Trump would give Bibi a blank check for aggression, which might invite the possibility of open war with Iran. Now, that's the kind of thing that can lead one to panic,

especially when you assume a guy like Panetta is privy to a lot of inside information. We may not be, but I'm actually not really sure that he is. I don't see any evidence from this article that Panetta is speaking from direct personal knowledge about extant plans to carry out an attack. Instead, he quoted Trump's description

of the call that Trump had had with Bibi before the election, telling Netanyahu, do whatever you have to do. So, Leon may just be working from the same information the rest of us have and coming to a somewhat different conclusion. I'm not as sure as he is about an imminent attack on Iran because Trump campaigned heavily on ending wars. And while I don't credit Trump as a particularly honest man, I do think he sees his personal benefit right now in being able to portray himself as a peacemaker, in part because he has so much domestically he wants to do and so much else internationally he wants to do, right? Expending a bunch of political capital, dealing with the kinds of protests and unrest and even anger from his base that a war with Iran would mean, especially once it gets bogged down in the kind of violence that would come with that,

he may not and likely doesn't see that as being of benefit to him. Now, that doesn't mean it will never happen. It doesn't mean his calculus won't change. I do foresee some situations in which Trump might decide that his personal benefit is in there being a wider ground conflict with Iran that U.S. forces get drawn into. You know, we'll talk a little bit about some of the possibilities around this. And we're getting outside of the realm of kind of established fact at this point. But I do think it's worth considering some of this. But first, consider these ads. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max.

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Trump sees war with Iran as a negative now, I'm quite sure. But how would he feel about it in the wake of, say, a Musk-centered plan to end the Federal Reserve and tank the dollar, in the wake of the changes that all of his immigration policies would make on the price of food, the Depression-era levels of inflation and unemployment returning to the United States, and the attendant social unrest that that would cause. If Americans find themselves on the verge of food rights, perhaps Trump would gamble on war being the best distraction he could manage. It's certainly not impossible. Now, I don't know how useful it is to bury myself in theoreticals and probabilities.

The known threats are dire enough and they demand full-time awareness in order to attempt to counter and endure. So instead of spiraling, I'm gonna leave you today with the words of another Gazan, Mohamed R. Maush. He's a journalist who wrote an article for MSNBC right after the election titled,

My family and I survived the war in Gaza. We know Trump's America won't save us. And here's Mohamed. For us, the election of Donald Trump isn't just a blip on the political radar or a shift in foreign policy. It's a challenge to sustain existence while the world seems intent on erasing us. It's about surviving 77 years under occupation and over a year of ongoing genocide. The very genocide I barely survived last December,

when my family and I, including my elderly parents and three-year-old son, were buried under the rubble of what was once our home after it was struck by an Israeli fired U.S. missile. The date, December 7th, 2023. Our bones were crushed between layers of concrete and twisted metal as we spent hours in the dark, buried together and praying to be pulled out in one piece. The trauma of that night, and both its physical and emotional toll of my son's small, fragile hand clinging to mine, comes back to me now as Trump prepares to take power once more. I've seen how American political leaders toy with the idea of change, how they dress up their campaigns with grand ideas about peace and justice. Yet each president brushes off our reality. Barack Obama promised hope and change

we could believe in, yet we got more bombs. Joe Biden offered a different approach, pledging and yielding support for Israel, leaving us to live through even more horror. Vice President Kamala Harris's niceties included no concrete promises to protect Palestinians, but she did pledge to continue financial support for Israel. And Trump's bluntness, as he promises to come back swinging, reminds us not to hold out hope for Israel. And Trump's bluntness, as he promises to come back swinging, reminds us not to hold out hope for change. So, you know, not much optimism here, but I do really recommend reading that article that MSNBC published. You know, it's bleak but important, especially given the fact that,

you know, we may be soon entering a world where it would be harder for people like Mohammed to express their feelings and their truth to an audience. I don't think it's unlikely that a clampdown is coming on some of these things. It's hard to say how extensive it will be. But there's a threat that Israel and their backers see and the way that public sympathy has built so quickly for Gaza in a way that wasn't present with a lot of previous stages of violence between Israel and Gaza, right?

Now, this is the result of a lot of videos spreading on social media. It's the result of voices from Gaza getting out and getting to people in a way they really hadn't before. And so one thing that does worry me greatly when I think about what's going to happen in Gaza under President Trump is not just what's going to happen to the people living there right now, but what's going to happen to

their ability to tell their story, to get information out to the rest of us. That is very much an open question at this moment, but it's certainly one that should be on your lips. And it's one that we will be investigating here at Cool Zone as long as we're able to continue doing that. Until next time, I'm Robert Evans. We'll be back tomorrow and every other day reporting on, you know, the world. It Could Happen Here is a production of Cool Zone Media. world. descriptions. Thanks for listening. Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast, and we're kicking off our second season digging into tech's elite and how they've turned Silicon Valley into a playground for billionaires. From the chaotic world of generative AI to the

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