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ince Donald Trump's triumphalist speech before the Israeli parliament on October 13, American officials have been arriving in Jerusalem at a pace never seen before. Steve Witkoff, the president's special envoy for the Middle East, and Jared Kushner, his predecessor in this role (and Trump's son-in-law), were followed by US Vice President JD Vance and then by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Such high-level involvement stems from the evolution of the US-Israeli alliance into a form of co-belligerence in the war to annihilate Gaza.
But this feverishness on the part of the United States also stems from the profound fragility of the "Trump plan" for Gaza, which remains at the mercy of a resumption of fighting, as demonstrated by the bloodbath on the night of Tuesday, October 28, when more than a hundred Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombings.
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