By Haider Abbas

January 20, ‘inauguration day’ when Republican President Donald Trump is to be sworn into power, is just round the corner. His most popular plan is to stop the ongoing-wars and not to start a new war. His personal dislike for Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu is world-known, though Netanyahu was the first to have called for congratulations. Israel President Issac Herzog on his visit to DC, however was full of praises for the outgoing Democratic President Joseph Biden and dubbed him as his “dear friend,” for his “steadfast support from the very beginning of the war.” But, time it is to be a different Trump. There are already signals from the US for no more aid to Israel, in its wars against Hamas in Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq or Iran. Ukraine, embroiled in a war with Russia, is also on the slide as a ‘stop’ on the flow of billions of US Dollars, to it and to Israel, is very likely to happen.

The Jewish lobby in the US and worldwide could never have fathomed it. Why would Trump give these unbridled solicitations to Israel, when 79% of Jewish Americans had voted against Trump. Going by the statistics, almost all of the Jews had voted for Kamala Harris. Now the biggest question is how and from where Trump is to pick up the pieces? Particularly, when Israel has issued a fresh warning, as per IRNA, from Israel newspaper Hayom, that it will kill Syrian President Basshar Al Asad, on the same lines as it had killed Hezbollah Chief Hasan Nasrullah in Lebanon. What matters here is that Asad is the biggest ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the region. Putin has helped him survive the last decade. Will Israel do it? Which by any standard is indirectly addressed to........

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