Donald Trump, the re-elected President of the USA, to the deep shock of many, he declared that Greenland must become a state of the USA. However, just as the murmuring among his allies about the announcement subsided, President Trump excited the entire world’s public opinion with yet another world-changing plan: he wants Gaza, which he plans to acquire by deporting the entire indigenous Palestinian population. Perhaps he thinks that if it worked with the Native Americans, why wouldn’t it work with the Palestinians? After all, there are far fewer of them.
The old conquistadors – conquerors, occupiers – expected to become rich from the colonization of the territories, peoples, and civilizations they subjugated. Although the term is Spanish, the occupation was practiced not only by the Spanish and Portuguese but also by the French, Danes, Germans, and the Anglo-Saxons. The latter were those who, in the course of their occupation, took over North America by 1732, and ultimately established the independent United States of America in 1783 – whose current president is Donald Trump. However, one should not think that the era of the conquistadors ended with the founding of the USA in the 18th century.
The second greatest conquistador in world history after Columbus, the infamous Adolf Hitler, who sought to acquire the natural resources and labor force of North Africa and Russia through his conquest war, and thereby killed 28 million civilians. Of course, the conquistadors operating in the Americas killed far more than that, but this fact does not absolve nobody from responsibility for their actions.
The appearance of conquistadors in history was not due to spontaneity but rather economic necessity. The economies of the countries sending conquerors to the four corners of the world had slowed down, so those in power could not increase their wealth. Therefore, from Spanish Dons to English Lords, many decided to send expeditionary forces to explore yet unknown parts of the world, conquer, and the treasure plunder-.
The success of such expeditions was uncertain at the time – many never returned home – but in modern times, these expeditions are no longer aimed at unknown but at known parts of the world for the conquest and appropriation of their assets.
President Trump’s announcement regarding his plans for Gaza (or Greenland) only surprised those who do not remember the events from Trump’s previous presidency and have not read, for example, Paul Craig Roberts’ influential paper „The Failure of Laissez-Faire Capitalism” on the internal conditions of the USA, which the scholar compared to those of the Third World. If we also consider the bridge collapse in Baltimore, which can be attributed to massive issues with the federal and state budgets, we understand that President Trump must find a solution to halt the decline, something the Biden administration visibly did not address.
Since it is realistically not conceivable that Trump could find an appropriate partner among those who hold real economic power (neither was Biden given $3 billion for highway reconstruction), the acquisition and exploitation of valuable lands outside the USA consistently fits into the array of possible solutions.
But why Gaza? The answer is quite simple: In 1999, under the Oslo-2 Agreement, acting on behalf of the Palestinians, the BG discovered the jackpot: rich deposits of gas and oil off the coast of Palestine, 20 nautical miles from the shore.
The report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in 2019 contains the precise figures. The UN committee’s experts estimated the Palestinian gas reserves at 122 trillion cubic feet and 1.7 billion barrels of oil.
In 2017, when the document serving as the basis for the conference was prepared, the reserves were estimated at $453 billion for gas and $71 billion for oil.
If President Trump gets it Gaza for the USA, would also gets it this enormous natural treasure that lies beneath the seabed adjacent to the Gaza Strip, waiting to be exploited.
Since the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) ratified on October 5, 1995, that this natural resource belongs to the Palestinians, Netanyahu would not have any objections to its acquisition – due to his own valid laws – because it would be taken from the Palestinians, not from Israel.
Although at the onset of the now-concluding Gaza conflict, it was widely speculated that the war erupted because of the treasure hidden under the sea, not due to the border skirmishes…
It won’t be noticeable to anyone that this is a continuation of the supposedly failed neoliberal narrative under the Bidens.
