FALSE GOD

The Bernhard Perspective

As T**** finishes up with his self-obsessed “Victory” tour of the Mid-East, we should not forget that this is not his first rodeo with a Gaza cease fire. Because, in point of fact, there was one already in place when he took office in January. It had been negotiated by then-President, Joe Biden.

Biden’s plan called for a three-phase approach. The phases emphasized a gradual but comprehensive pathway from ceasefire (phase 1), hostage and prisoner release and withdrawal of forces (phase 2), and ultimately, reconstruction and stability for Gaza (phase 3). Phase 1, the ceasefire, was in effect on January 21 when T**** took office. 

If this all sounds familiar, it should. Biden’s phases 1 and 2 combined are what T****  is touring the area celebrating now.

So what happened? With a ceasefire in place at the beginning of the year, why were there another ten months of war and death between then and now? We have Donald T**** to thank for that.

This is because, although he claimed to support it, he gave only lip-service to the plan, T****’s administration pointedly did not emphasize a push for phase two and phase three. Rather, he let them slide. Instead, there were statements by T**** about forcibly relocating Palestinians from Gaza or taking administrative control of Gaza in ways that alarmed observers.

Some of his public remarks, like  talking about “owning” Gaza and creating a ”Mid-East Riviera” with T***’owned resorts and casinos, or making demands that weren’t in the negotiated terms, created confusion about U.S. commitment to the deal.

T****’s contradictory rhetoric; contrived brinksmanship and failure to secure or insist on later phases, and his undermining trust with extreme proposals, were essential to the failure of Biden’t plan. 

And in fact, that was Donald’s plan all along.  It all began when he assumed the presidency in 2017. His deficiency of character lead to his extreme anger and jealousy over the fact that Barak Obama, a Black man, had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. So Donald T**** determined that he deserved and contrived to get one, no matter what. 

It began when he assumed office again this year as he claimed to have already stopped seven wars. They included conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia and Armenia and Azerbaijan. He also threw in three additional conflicts that had not yet taken place. 

There are, however, many problems with these claims. Some of the “wars” were not full-blown conflicts at the time. In some cases, the fighting resumed after T****’s alleged efforts. And in others, the extent of T****’s personal role was either minimal at best, or non-existent. In point of fact, T**** was lying about all of it. 

In any event, T**** was livid because the Nobel Committee had not recognized his so-called peace-keeping efforts with “his” prize. So for years, he claimed that he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize when in face he simply did not 

And then, with a ceasefire deal in place as he re-assumed the office in January, and with his well-known derisive hatred of Democrats in general and Obama in particular, T****’s obsession with the Prize and his fragile ego could not allow the possibility that Joe Biden might be awarded what he self-righteously believed belonged to him. 

And so Donald T**** deliberately set out to tank the deal. And by doing so, he condemned Gaza to an additional ten months of warfare. That meant an additional ten months of obscene destruction. An additional ten months of hunger and starvation, and an additional tens of thousands of maimed and dead Gaza civilians.

And all because this deeply flawed person, this man with a seriously deficient and fragile character, this self-proclaimed practicing Christian did, with a perverse passion, break the Tenth Commandment: he coveted. He coveted something he did not deserve and could not have. 

And in doing so, so he broke the First Commandment as well.