Dana El-Kurd

Even the technologies that are being pioneered, if you want, by the Israelis and also by the Americans to some extent in places like Gaza, then get exported elsewhere.

Palantir AI is now going to be a core component of the US military.

These are things that are like, because that's what I mean by like Lebanon is deceptively small.

It's like it's not important geopolitically for the most part.

But because that is the case, and of course Gaza as well, then it allows, it has allowed the Israelis to get away with a lot of things.

So maybe this is, I don't know, a cliche or I don't know, it's a meaningless thing to repeat, but the problem really goes back to impunity.

The problem really goes back to the fact that nothing the Israelis have ever done, at least in the past several decades,

has had any consequences to them, to what they do, to the region and so on.

And this is absolutely a bipartisan problem in America.

None of this would be possible without the Americans.

There's a very good argument to be made that if we're talking about the Israeli occupation of Palestine, we need to say the American-Israeli occupation of Palestine, the bombing of Lebanon, we need to say it's also in America.

None of this would be physically possible, diplomatically possible, economically possible, were it not for this unconditional support

that the Israelis have gotten from the Americans for decades and decades now.

If Biden had done anything about Israel's genocide in Gaza, really almost anything, I don't think we would be where we are today.

And so, no, this is not a Trump problem.

It's just that Trump being Trump is making it much worse.

It's just exploding everything even faster, speeding it up and adding new dimensions to it and so on and so forth.

But the problem goes back to American imperialist hubris

A lot of people not knowing what they're even doing in the region and the consequences of it all.

So, yeah, I'm not someone who tends to be very pessimistic necessarily and stuff like that.