Trump, Harris want Israel’s genocide ‘over’ by the time either takes office

Alameen Templeton

Neither candidate in the US elections wants president Joe Biden’s genocide legacy clouding the air come early January when they take the oath to uphold democracy.
Donanld Trump and Kamala Harris they have made it clear to the Israelis they want the genocide “wrapped up” by the time they take office.
So, the Muslims’ choice may come down to which of the two they believe won’t be pushed around by Benjamin Netanyahu who has made the most of the free rein he’s enjoyed with “lame duck” Biden.
The Gaza genocide is emerging as a major swing issue in the US where a mere one percent separates Harris’s 45% electors support from Trump’s 44%.
And the pressure is starting to tell.
Israeli media have gone from saying a week ago that the Gaza Holocaust could become “a problematic issue” with the contenders if it continues under their incoming administrations to saying Tuesday “Trump wants Gaza war over by time he takes office”.
Two senior Israeli officials last week “expressed concern” to The Times of Israel over Trump’s repeated call for Israel to quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza
They said an inability to do so would lead to a clash if Trump returns to office in January.
One said Israel’s “internal political constraints to ending the war quickly” was a major sticking point, an apparent reference to the lunatic, far-right elements in Netanyahu’s cabinet who have repeatedly opposed hostage deal proposals conditioned on a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
“There is also near-unanimity within the Netanyahu government against allowing the Palestinian Authority to play a role in the governance of Gaza,” the Times of Israel reported.
Trump isn’t the only one suffering indigestion at the suggestion he inherit Biden’s genocide crown. Harris’s camp has also made it clear she wants no part of it. Her office has told the Israelis that dragging out the war through the 2025 US presidential inauguration “would sour relations with Harris if she were to win in November”.
Just four days ago, Trump was being his usual, schizophrenic self, bouncing between telling Arab Americans he “opposed the war”, and reassuring Netanyahu he supports Israel’s attacks against Hamas.
“Do what you have to do,” six people familiar with a telephone conversation they had told the Washington Post. Trump revealed the two had spoken at least twice in October, with one call as recently as October 19.
“’He didn’t tell him what to do militarily, but he expressed that he was impressed by the pagers,’ said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who was on a call this month with Trump and Netanyahu, referring to the Israeli operation that killed Hezbollah leaders with explosive batteries inside pagers,” the Washington Post reported.
“Graham added: ‘He told them, do what you have to do to defend yourself, but we’re openly talking about a new Mideast. Trump understands that very much there has to be change with the corrupt Palestinian state,'” it said.
Reading between the lines, Trump is happy supporting whatever the Israelis do, as long as it’s Biden who, as president overseeing the genocide, has to take final blame for it all. Supporting the Israeli “street” also puts him in the good books of wealthy Israeli donors funding his campaign. But Trump apparently doesn’t want the same accusations of genocide clinging to him through his incumbency.
That came to the fore yesterday.
The Times of Israel is reporting Tuesday, with the final election day on Nobember 5 now just six days away, that Trump’s notorious July statement that Israel “must get the job done” also came with a deadline – he wants it done by the time he takes office.
“Former US president Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week,” the Times of Israel says …
“While Trump has publicly confirmed having told Netanyahu that he wants Israel to win the war quickly, the sources speaking to The Times of Israel are the first to reveal that a timeline was attached to that request.”
It added “a US official” said Trump wasn’t specific in his appeal to Netanyahu and could back “residual” IDF activity in Gaza, as long as Tel Aviv has officially ended the war.
Although the media outlet says “Netanyahu has long stressed that Israel will maintain overriding security control of Gaza for the foreseeable future after the war”, the truth is his whole cabinet is implacably opposed to any idea of Palestinian control of Gaza.
Netanyahu said Monday “Israel is not yet at the conflict wrap-up stage”, telling Likud MKs he “cannot agree to Hamas’s demand to end the war in exchange for the 101 hostages it still holds”.
But, Muslims in America would be foolish to think this means Trump is the obvious choice. He’s said in recent weeks he’d give Israel freer reign, slamming Biden for trying to restrict the potential targets of Jerusalem’s retaliation to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attack.
“The former US official clarified that the pre-inauguration day victory that Trump wants Israel to secure in Gaza also includes the return of the hostages,” the Times of Israel says.
It seems he may be willing to take up the fight using American forces, but that again may just be empty electioneering.