{"id":308115,"date":"2025-05-09T06:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308115"},"modified":"2025-05-10T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:29:14","slug":"trump-considering-us-led-iraq-style-occupation-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308115","title":{"rendered":"Trump considering US-led Iraq-style occupation of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Armbruster \u2013 Responsible Statecraft May 7, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Trump administration<\/a> is reportedly considering a plan for the U.S. to lead the administration of Gaza after Israel\u2019s siege, similar to how Washington ran Iraq after the 2003 American-led invasion.<\/p>\n

Reuters reports<\/a> that there have been \u201chigh level\u201d discussions \u201ccentered around a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized and stabilized, and a viable Palestinian administration had emerged.\u201d:<\/p>\n

The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the talks publicly, compared the proposal to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq that Washington established in 2003, shortly after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

Most experts cite the CPA as the catalyst for an impending insurgency that mired the U.S. military in war in Iraq for more than a decade, from which hundreds of thousands were killed at a cost of upwards of $3 trillion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Reuters adds<\/a> that \u201cthere would be no fixed timeline for how long such a U.S.-led administration [in Gaza] would last\u201d while \u201c[a] U.S.-led provisional authority in Gaza would draw Washington deeper into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and mark its biggest Middle East<\/a> intervention since the Iraq invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quincy Institute research fellow Annelle Sheline called the idea \u201cappalling and absurd,\u201d adding, \u201cAmericans should remember the futility of imposing a government on Iraq at the barrel of a gun. The fact that Trump is apparently considering this demonstrates how captured he is by Israel<\/a>, rather than prioritizing the interests of the United States.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is true, then it is a complete turn to the policies of the Bush administration in terms of occupying Middle Eastern land,\u201d added the Quincy Institute\u2019s Trita Parsi. \u201cIt\u2019s the opposite of what Trump promised the American people in terms of bringing troops home and disentangling the U.S. from the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parsi continued: \u201cIt also shows that as long as Israel\u2019s occupation of the Palestinian territories continues, which is the root cause of the violence, the U.S. will always face pressures to be pulled back into the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardline neoconservative think tank Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs<\/a>, or JINSA, and the Vandenberg Coalition<\/a> released a plan last year \u2014 with similar contours to what Reuters reported \u2014 that called for<\/a> the creation of a private entity, the \u201cInternational Trust for Gaza Relief and Reconstruction\u201d to be led by \u201ca group of Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia<\/a>, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates\u201d and \u201csupported by the United States and other nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq saw the U.S. being mired in an occupation that cost trillions of dollars and led to hundreds of thousands killed. Before it ended in an ignominious withdrawal. Now the Trump administration is reportedly considering similar proposals for Gaza <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308116,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308115\/revisions\/308116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}