NOBEL PRIZE FOR TRUMP, IMMEDIATE PEACE WITH PUTIN. EUROPEAN IDIOCY HUMILIATED

12/2/25 – In 2009, the most ridiculous Nobel Peace Prize in history was awarded. It went to U.S. President Barack Obama. Newly elected. When he had not yet done anything. Because, it was said, he would bring peace to the Middle East. But he did not. Instead, he financed and armed the wars in Syria and Libya, aiding and funding jihadist militias, including the atrocious, rapist, and murderous ISIS Salafists. Officially, the justification read: “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Really? A farce. And an absolute banality. But the first black U.S. president was already a trend, an icon in the elite circles of European politics. No one objected.

Now, the next Nobel Peace Prize should logically go to the ultimate anti-Obama. The hated and feared —especially in Europe— fiery and anarchic Donald Trump, who has returned to power with an iron fist. He has already imposed a truce (which won’t last because the Hamas octopus is still alive and strong) in the Great War of Gaza. And just weeks after taking office at the White House, today Trump announced that he had agreed, in a long and cordial phone call with Vladimir Putin, to the “immediate” start of negotiations to end the most absurd war of the century: the one in Ukraine. A war that, according to him, would never have started if he, and not the senile Joe Biden, had been in the White House two years ago.

Trump has already launched the peace process with Putin, a key figure for controlling international tensions, whom the West, aligned with Biden, has foolishly demonized and isolated over the past two years. This has fueled a senseless war at the expense of American and European taxpayers—a war that would never have started if the West had honored the commitments made with Moscow after the dismantling of the USSR. Namely, not allowing NATO’s expansion up to Russia’s borders. Trump has put Ukrainian President Zelensky in his place—the “useful idiot” used by Biden and European leaders to try to humiliate the Russian giant, the world’s first nuclear power. Zelensky has been turned, by a “militarized” press—according to former Podemos leader Iglesias—into a pathetic Robin Hood-style freedom fighter, to whom hundreds of billions have been gifted, always from the pockets of European and American taxpayers, to fuel a senseless and futile war. A war that Russia could not lose and that was of no interest to the European Union. But EU leaders, from Macron to Scholz—too young to have lived through the horrors of World War II—became intoxicated with adrenaline and warrior-like fury, transforming themselves into little Napoleons. Forgetting to protect the interests of their own citizens.

Money thrown out the window for a war lost from the outset. Funds that primarily served to fuel corruption in the Ukrainian regime and accelerate the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of young Russians and Ukrainians. While also impoverishing Europe’s middle classes and ensuring astronomical profits for speculators, banks, and arms industry tycoons.

With Trump, common sense returns. The U.S. president’s peace plan will largely confirm Russia’s claims. With a ceasefire along the current battle lines, recognition of Moscow’s rights over Crimea and the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, a veto on Ukraine’s NATO membership, but a “yes” to its accession to the EU (a shrewd move that would weaken a U.S. trade competitor by absorbing a poor and highly problematic country). A boomerang for Europe, which Trump sees as an annoying competitor. All logical and inevitable moves that, without the dangerous stupidity of Western leaders, would have prevented the war, the deaths of countless young men from both countries, the explosion of prices in Europe, and the constant impoverishment of the middle class. It is no coincidence that, in announcing negotiations with Putin, Trump completely ignored and humiliated the “small” Europeans—to negotiate with a figure he respects and considers his equal.

THE TRUMP REVOLUTION

As soon as he arrived at the White House—and even before—Trump immediately began transforming politics and international relations. Whether one likes it or not. He has propelled Elon Musk (his potential successor?) into a crusade against corruption and waste in public administration, which should return hundreds of billions to American taxpayers. He has promoted the end of the destructive hysteria of “political correctness,” which today contributes to Europe’s impotence and decline. Against the new strong leaders of the “new world”—Trump, Putin, the neo-Ottoman sultan Erdogan, the Chinese Xi Jinping, and the Argentine Javier Milei—who are already dividing the world at the expense of old Europe.

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TRUMP’S BOMBSHELLS

Trump forcefully asserts the strategic interests of the United States. He holds unprecedented power in his hands. And he uses it. He makes proposals that no one else would dare put forward. But that could change the face of the world. Like the idea of “buying” Greenland, the Aladdin’s cave of raw materials and now a strategic sentinel for northern trade routes, or taking control of the Gaza Strip, relocating much of its population (temporarily?), permanently eradicating the “tumor” of Hamas, and rebuilding a tourist oasis on the ruins of war to guarantee prosperity for its inhabitants and peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Of course, the project presents infinite difficulties. Trump does not even rule out greenlighting an Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Another bomb thrown at the global status quo. Brutal, politically incorrect proposals from a man who wields power and intends to use it—but which, in the end, might just bring an end—albeit at high risk—to the eternal Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And as for the Nobel Prize—who will dare to deny it to the new most powerful man on the planet…?

GAZA, THE COSTA BRAVA OF THE MIDDLE EAST. TRUMP’S BIG IDEA. BUT…


February 5, 2025 – A brilliant idea. Or a crazy one. Forty kilometers of golden beaches, blue waters, romantic sunsets, white-and-blue houses, and dazzling seaside resorts. A dream. But in Gaza… Such a wild project could only come from Donald Trump, the anarchic new U.S. president and the most powerful and unpredictable man on the planet. The idea is simple—and perhaps full of common sense.

After 15 months of Israeli bombings in response to Hamas’ atrocities on October 7, 2023, Gaza is now a heap of ruins. 90% destroyed. Uninhabitable. Reconstruction will take years and massive investments. And there is a high likelihood that, if Hamas retains control of the Strip, everything will eventually be destroyed again. Hamas seeks to wipe Israel and its Jewish inhabitants off the map. Though weakened by 15 months of war, it still controls Gaza—and its population, unable to rebel after 20 years of Islamic dictatorship and jihadist brainwashing in schools. Hamas has lost 30,000 fighters but has already recruited 15,000 new ones, many of them very young.

Trump’s plan appears, on paper, to be the only one that could provide a solution—albeit an unbalanced, terrible, and radical one—to the endless, irresolvable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And theoretically, if implemented properly, it could finally allow both Israelis and Palestinians to live well and in peace—something that will never be possible with Hamas, which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Trump himself have vowed to destroy.

But Hamas cannot be eradicated in the foreseeable future. It is a cancer with metastases throughout Palestinian society. It is the most powerful force in Gaza, but also the most popular one in the West Bank. Weak and corrupt, Fatah—the party once led by Yasser Arafat and now headed by the aging President Mahmoud Abbas—would be swept away if Palestinians were finally allowed to vote after 20 years.

Certainly, Trump’s plan could resolve everything—or almost. It would uproot Hamas by emptying Gaza and relocating its two million residents elsewhere (but where? No one wants them!). The Strip could then be rebuilt as a profitable tourist paradise under American control. But for whom? At least some of its Palestinian inhabitants would have to return, “cleansed” of Hamas. Trump’s plan faces countless obstacles. The majority of Gaza’s two million Palestinians do not want to leave. Perhaps with strong incentives (funded by Saudi petrodollars and Gulf countries, as Trump suggests), many might agree. During the war, many would have fled to Sinai if Egypt had not closed its border. Then, countries willing to temporarily host two million people—many of whom have been indoctrinated by Hamas—would need to be found. And that includes tens of thousands of Islamist militants/terrorists and their families, as well as criminal clans allied with Hamas. Despite public declarations of solidarity, no Arab state wants the Palestinians, fearing terrorist infiltration.

Massacres of Palestinians have already occurred in Lebanon and Jordan. Amman and Cairo have made it clear they will not accept them. Perhaps Trump could persuade them with his characteristic “carrot and stick” strategy (mostly stick, in the form of tariffs), which he has previously applied to Mexico, Canada, and Colombia.Even Turkey, under “Sultan” Erdoğan, wants nothing to do with it and denounces the forced displacement of Palestinians as illegitimate cruelty—conveniently forgetting the ethnic cleansing it carried out in 1974 during the invasion of northern Cyprus, which it still occupies, having terrorized and forced 200,000 Cypriots into exile. Then there is the explosive issue of the West Bank—the other half of the impoverished pseudo-Palestinian state, now reduced to a patchwork of Israeli settlements, often built by violent settlers. This makes a “two-state solution” practically impossible.

Trump has promised to announce within a month whether Israel should annex the West Bank—a move that would trigger a bloody uprising. And at the end of the current ceasefire in Gaza, the war could resume. Israel, as Netanyahu reiterated in Washington, “wants to destroy Hamas.”.Trump’s Gaza project might be more of a provocation—perhaps a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Arab world that could lead to the partial implementation of the plan. During his first term, Trump achieved surprising results: he moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing it as Israel’s capital—a historic decision. He also brokered the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain, and the UAE. Back then, however, he had the support of Putin’s Russia—now demonized by the West over the absurd war in Ukraine. Trump now plans to rebuild ties with the Russian leader. The American president is more powerful than ever, and he seems determined to reshape the world.

And of course, he wouldn’t mind a Nobel Peace Prize.



Francesco Cerri


International journalist. Originally a specialist in European politics and security. War correspondent in Sarajevo during the Balkan War, and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Milosevic trial. Correspondent in Israel/Palestine during the Intifada, in Turkey during the Syrian war and the Gezi Park uprising. Also covered the Indignados movement in Spain and Portugal. Honorary President of the European Parliamentary Press. Knight of the Italian Republic.

GAZA, LA COSTA BRAVA DU MOYEN-ORIENT. UNE GRANDE IDÉE DE TRUMP. MAIS…

05/02/2025 – Une idée géniale. Ou insensée. Quarante kilomètres de plages dorées, des eaux bleues, des couchers de soleil romantiques, des maisons blanches et bleues, des complexes hôteliers scintillants en bord de mer. Un rêve. Mais à Gaza…

Seul Donald Trump, l’anarchiste nouveau président des États-Unis, homme le plus puissant et imprévisible de la planète, pouvait concevoir un projet aussi fou. L’idée est simple. Et peut-être pleine de bon sens. Après 15 mois de bombardements israéliens, déclenchés en réponse aux atrocités du Hamas le 7 octobre 2023, Gaza est aujourd’hui un amas de ruines. Détruite à 90%. Inhabitable. Sa reconstruction prendra des années. Nécessitera des investissements colossaux. Et avec une forte probabilité, si le Hamas maintient son contrôle sur la bande de Gaza, que tout soit de nouveau réduit en cendres tôt ou tard. Le Hamas veut effacer Israël et ses habitants juifs de la surface du monde. Il sort très affaibli de ces 15 mois de guerre, mais conserve le contrôle de Gaza. Et de ses habitants. Incapables de se révolter. Après 20 ans de dictature islamique et de lavage de cerveau jihadiste anti-israélien dans les écoles. L’organisation a perdu 30 000 combattants, mais en a déjà recruté 15 000 nouveaux, dont beaucoup de très jeunes.

Un plan aussi radical que controversé

Sur le papier, le plan de Trump semble être le seul qui pourrait apporter une solution – déséquilibrée, terrible, radicale – à l’éternel conflit israélo-palestinien, réputé insoluble. Et, en théorie, s’il est bien mis en œuvre, il pourrait permettre aux Israéliens et aux Palestiniens de vivre enfin en paix et dans de bonnes conditions. Chose qui ne sera jamais possible avec le Hamas. Que le Premier ministre israélien, Benyamin Netanyahou, et Trump lui-même ont promis de détruire. Mais le Hamas ne pourra pas être éradiqué dans un avenir proche. C’est un cancer aux métastases profondément enracinées dans la société palestinienne. C’est la force la plus puissante à Gaza, mais aussi la plus populaire en Cisjordanie. Affaibli, corrompu, le Fatah – qui fut le parti de Yasser Arafat et qui est aujourd’hui dirigé par le président vieillissant Mahmoud Abbas – serait balayé si des élections avaient enfin lieu après 20 ans d’attente.

Certes, le plan de Trump pourrait tout résoudre. Ou presque. Il éradiquerait le Hamas en vidant Gaza et en transférant ailleurs (mais où ? Aucun pays n’en veut !) ses deux millions d’habitants. La bande de Gaza pourrait être reconstruite comme un paradis touristique rentable, sous contrôle américain. Mais pour qui ? Une partie au moins de ses habitants palestiniens devrait revenir. Après avoir été « purgée » du Hamas.

Un projet semé d’embûches

Le plan de Trump comporte des difficultés infinies. La majorité des deux millions de Palestiniens de Gaza ne veulent pas partir. Peut-être qu’avec de fortes incitations financières (payées par les pétrodollars de l’Arabie saoudite et des pays du Golfe, selon Trump), beaucoup pourraient accepter. Pendant la guerre, nombreux sont ceux qui auraient fui vers le Sinaï si la frontière n’avait pas été fermée par l’Égypte.Il faudrait ensuite trouver des pays prêts à accueillir, au moins temporairement, ces deux millions de personnes, en grande partie endoctrinées par le Hamas. Et parmi elles, des dizaines de milliers de combattants/terroristes islamistes avec leurs familles, ainsi que des membres de clans criminels alliés au Hamas.

Au-delà des déclarations publiques de solidarité, aucun État arabe ne veut accueillir les Palestiniens. Par crainte d’une contagion terroriste. Des massacres de Palestiniens ont déjà eu lieu au Liban et en Jordanie. Amman et Le Caire ont clairement indiqué qu’ils ne les accepteraient pas. Peut-être que Trump pourrait les convaincre avec sa stratégie habituelle de la carotte et du bâton (surtout du bâton/sanctions douanières), qu’il a déjà appliquée avec le Mexique, le Canada et la Colombie. Même la Turquie du « sultan » Erdoğan refuse d’en entendre parler et dénonce la cruauté illégitime du déplacement forcé des Palestiniens. En oubliant la purification ethnique qu’elle a pratiquée en 1974 lors de l’invasion du nord de Chypre – qu’elle occupe toujours – en terrorisant et forçant à l’exil 200 000 Chypriotes.

Et la Cisjordanie ?

Reste le problème explosif de la Cisjordanie. L’autre moitié de ce pseudo-État palestinien pauvre, aujourd’hui réduite à une peau de léopard par l’implantation continue de colons israéliens souvent violents. Un fait qui rend pratiquement impossible la solution des « deux États ». Trump a promis de se prononcer d’ici un mois sur une possible annexion de la Cisjordanie par Israël. Ce qui déclencherait une insurrection sanglante. Et à la fin de ce mois de trêve à Gaza, la guerre pourrait reprendre. Israël, a réaffirmé Netanyahou à Washington, veut « détruire le Hamas ».

Le projet de Trump pour Gaza pourrait être une sorte de provocation. En vue d’une négociation avec le monde arabe qui aboutirait à une mise en œuvre partielle du plan. Lors de son premier mandat à la Maison-Blanche, Trump avait déjà obtenu des résultats surprenants. Il avait déplacé l’ambassade américaine à Jérusalem depuis Tel-Aviv, la reconnaissant comme capitale d’Israël. Une décision historique. Il avait aussi obtenu la signature des Accords d’Abraham entre Israël, Bahreïn et les Émirats arabes unis. À l’époque, il avait l’appui de la Russie de Poutine, aujourd’hui diabolisée par l’Occident pour la guerre absurde en Ukraine. Trump envisage désormais de renouer avec le leader russe.Le président américain est plus puissant que jamais et semble déterminé à changer la face du monde.

Il ne serait certainement pas contre un prix Nobel de la paix.


Francesco Cerri

Journaliste international. Spécialiste de politique européenne et de sécurité. Envoyé à Sarajevo pendant la guerre des Balkans et au Tribunal pénal international lors du procès Milosevic. Correspondant en Israël/Palestine pendant l’Intifada, en Turquie pendant la guerre en Syrie et la révolte de Gezi Park. En Espagne avec les Indignados et au Portugal. Président honoraire de la presse parlementaire européenne. Chevalier de la République Italienne.

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