ANOTHER TRUMP TRIUMPH!

 

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but I kind of like this picture of President Trump. At least he’s smiling. Since his second term as CEO of the United States, he seems to be frowning or scowling all the time or having one set of storm clouds or other across his brow, his eyes sparking lightning bolts hither and yon. And smile he should. He’s won the Peace Prize! A prize commensurate with his achievements for promoting world peace. By his own count he’s prevented or ended [Fill in number] wars throughout the globe. Quite an accomplishment for someone who is almost an octogenarian! In the pic, he’s looking with love and joy upon the face of his trophy, holding it like he would a newborn grandchild, so precious so…?! Hmmm. Hang on….* Yeah, come to think of it, that looks more like a soccer ball. Huh?

OH, I GET IT! FIFA’s (“Fédération Internationale de Football Association”) in town. Well, Washington D.C., where, at the Kennedy Center, President Trump was awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize by the sports federation CEO and Jeff Bezos look-a-like, Giovanni Infantino. Gio wants to keep Trump happy so he won’t pull the rug out from underneath the 2026 FIFA football (i.e. soccer) matches that the U.S. is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico. And what better way to keep the man at the helm of the SS Titanic American ship of state happy than by gifting him something shiny and gold coloured. 

👉Yeah, sure, it’s a fake award, gold plated and all and something Gio cobbled together to butter up Trump big time. But, judging by Trump’s expression as he beholds his trophy, it’ll be smooth sailing for the American leg of the 2026 FIFA games. [He also got a Nobel Prize knock-off medallion.] I wonder what other pieces of swag Gio will gift his new BFF in the coming months? Perhaps seat warmers decorated with a portrait of the American president embroidered in gold thread for Trump to sit on if he attends any of the matches held at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles? 😏

 

Cheers, Jake.  _____________________________________

 

* Okay. For me, in the first photo, the top half of the golden statuette looks more like a human skull. It looks like a child’s skull. And I had a moment or two under darkening skies when I imagined Trump had given birth to the anti-Christ, and the demon spawn was about to open its golden, leathery wings and fly to the heavens, ushering in Armageddon. But that’s just me.

  

RANT: AN INCONVENIENT PEOPLE

   

On November 17 at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) we witnessed the passing of Resolution 2803 that critics say will ‘internationalize’ Israel’s playbook of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and is one that flies in the face of hope for a true and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Are naysayers of the deal being too harsh? Wasn’t Trump’s peace plan that was adopted by the UNSC in a vote of 13-0 with two abstentions (Russia and China) indictive of its legitimacy? Wouldn’t the carnage of the past two years from Israeli bombs and missiles raining down on Gaza’s Palestinian population finally cease? Are the hopes of people around the world for justice, peace and an orderly transition to an independent and sustainable Palestinian homeland misplaced? Why yes, Virgina, they are badly misplaced, indeed.

 

PHASE ONE OF THE TRUMP PEACE PLAN calls for a truce (commenced October 10), with exchanges of prisoners and hostages (living   and deceased). Humanitarian aid is to flow into Gaza commensurate with the levels adopted during the January truce arrangement. [See below] Any Hamas fighters who surrender would be given amnesty and a ticket out of Gaza. The American proposal would then see the establishment of a

 

“…technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the “’Board of Peace.’” (Al Jazeera)

 

SOUNDS GOOD, right? But the devil's in the details. We'll see how pretty words on paper are translated into facts on the ground: 

👉The Board will be chaired by President Trump, reprising his “Apprentice” role from the popular reality-TV gameshow of a few years back; if the Palestinians don’t get with the program, he can just "fire" them. As yet, no other names for the governance board have been suggested save for Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who has blood on his hands for his complicity in 2003’s infamous “Weapons of Mass Destruction” (WMDs) hoax that helped launch the Iraq War, immiserating that country's population and leaving hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead in its wake. One critic suggests Blair’s potential role as a ‘governor of Gaza' is fitting, in that Trump’s plan looks more like a return to last century’s British Mandate rule over Palestine than anything else, especially since Palestinians would—for at least two years—be denied self-rule while the Board of Peace creates a “Hamas-free” governance structure. Furthermore, Hamas is to relinquish its armaments, while a twenty-thousand-strong peacekeeping force called the “International Stabilization Force” (ISF), made up of volunteers from as-yet-named countries¹ who would police Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinians, until a vetted, indigenous police force could be established. And beyond the “Yellow Line”, in a swath of land engulfing the shrunken, broken Palestinian territory, sit thousands of IDF troops. Will they abide by their withdrawal commitments as outlined in the October peace plan? That remains to be seen. [Nuh-uh. Ed.] And what exactly do they mean when they say, “New Gaza”? ‘New’ for who?

 

NOTE: Except for the shaky truce, prisoner exchanges and an increase in humanitarian aid, the rest Trump’s proposals are still being negotiated with Hamas at talks being held at the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. As it stands, I find it hard to envision Hamas standing down and disarming when the ‘road’ toward a sovereign Palestinian state is so mired in speed bumps and truncheon-wielding traffic cops. In fact, the UN Resolution barely mentions an end game where there would be a Palestinian state other than in the vaguest of terms. But, apparently, even this was too much for the Israeli PM, who blew his stack after the UNSC vote, and was forced to swallow the deal. But don’t be fooled by the performance. Recall that Danny Danon, the Israeli UN ambassador and his American counterpart Mike Waltz were practically French-kissing following the UNSC vote on November 17. If those two Zionist fuktards are happy with the thing, it doesn’t bode well for the Palestinians of Gaza. That the Trump peace plan was crafted with Israeli input should be proof enough that Bibi’s wailing and gnashing of teeth was just a shuck and jive dance because the deal, in fact, gives him and the zealots in his cabinet just about everything they wanted: Israeli troops not mired inside Gaza in a bloody Hamas insurgency (that will be left to the “International Stabilization Force” the truce plan envisions, if they can find any suckers takers for the role; other countries will pick up the tab for reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave (condos, anyone? Channel Jared Kushner for details); the ability to bomb and kill Palestinians as they see fit, with little pushback from the supine Trump government; more time to corral Gazans into high-tech concentration camps, the first one currently being constructed in the Green Zone where Palestinian inductees will live without being able to leave, except to leave Gaza forever*; a continuing genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian enclave, albeit at a slower pace and with less unseemly sturm and drang to the thing—those dead baby pics are bad news for the Israeli propaganda machine¹; with a foreign peace keeping force and governance by poombahs more interested in Gazan beachfront property and condo timeshares, than people's lives, the scene gets cluttered. And, beneath the muddied waters, Israeli war crimes will continue.

   

FOR TRUMP and his Zionist buddies, Palestinian statehood is aspirational more than anything. The truce still stands, more or less, and we’ll see how long it will be before Israel once again ramps up its siege warfare. So, it is by no means certain this next round of talks (Phase II) will produce a deal Hamas can live with, especially if one of their key demands is for Israeli troop withdrawals from Gaza. In Trump's plan, there is to be staged IDF withdrawals, but it is unlikely Israel will permanently leave the “Green Zone” where their troops are arrayed following the land-grab they’ve made of nearly fifty percent of Palestinian land. It’s true the peace plan has lowered the Gazan genocide and ethnic cleansing to a simmer, for now, but if history is the best teacher, it’s plain that Zionist Israel has no intention of tolerating a Palestinian population in Gaza (or in the rest of Occupied Palestine for that matter). 

👉WHAT THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION does do is cement in blood stone the current IDF imposed border regions established with the so-called 'cease-fire' that went into effect October 10 as part of the American president’s twenty-point peace plan. By force of arms, Israel took over half of the Palestinian territory, forcing its population into squalid tent camps or life among the ruins. Sequestered into the “Red Zone”, as the map indicates, the enclave is cut off from the rest of the Palestinian territories as well as the Egyptian border where humanitarian aid used to flow directly (though not freely) into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah gates. Gaza is effectively sealed off from the world by a crescent of IDF controlled land (the “Green Zone”) and is fully dependent on Israeli largess with respect to how much aid can enter. And not to forget, Gaza has been called the most densely populated region in the world. Now, its population must contend with half of the land space as before 7 October 2023. Even its gardens and groves, and arable lands have been destroyed by Israel in its frenetic  quest to depopulate Palestine of Palestinians.

From March to August 2025 (there had been a temporary pause in hostilities between January and March), Israel restarted its bombing and blockading of the Gaza Strip while the world watched in horror as famine and starvation levels rose dramatically, and pictures of the most vulnerable in Gazan society (infants, the elderly, medically compromised) succumbed to Israel’s genocidal blockade policies. Under the Geneva Conventions it is a war crime to use food as a weapon of war. It’s also immoral and another example of a society that is psychological ill.

[Note that: In a recent survey, nearly 75% of the Jewish Israeli population in Israel believe there are no "innocents" in Gaza. 87% support the current government. 56% favour ethnic cleansing of Israeli-Arab (2.1 million in number or 20% of the population); 47% are in favour of killing all Palestinians.]

 

SINCE THE OCTOBER ceasefire has been in place, the volume of humanitarian aid coming in has increased, but it is still far from enough, with even the bounty of the sea being denied to Gazans. While the situation has 'improved' since Trump’s 20-point peace plan (now enshrined in international law by the recent UNSC ruling)³, humanitarian aid and the types of aid allowed in, like winterized shelter materials, is still inadequate to address the needs of Gaza’s citizens. Gaza’s Government Media Office said since the start of the ceasefire (October 10) only 28 percent of the agreed-upon number of aid trucks have been allowed to enter:

 

“These limited quantities fall far below the minimum humanitarian threshold,’ the office said, calling for the immediate entry of at least 600 trucks daily to provide essential supplies such as food, medicine, fuel, and cooking gas.” Furthermore, with Israel banning high-value nutritional items (eggs, cheese vegetables, etc.) into Gaza, and at the same time authorizing low-value items (soft drinks, chocolate, chips, etc.), this proves “‘that the occupation is deliberately implementing a policy of food manipulation as a weapon against civilians,’ the media office calls this a regime of ‘engineered starvation.’” (Aljazeera)

 

BY LATE JULY, while Trump’s peace proposal plan was being worked over by the black-hearted mandarins in Jerusalem, Israel felt compelled to adopt temporary humanitarian “pauses” so that needed supplies (like baby formula) could flow-in to as many Gazans as time permitted. Of course, the effects of famine on the most vulnerable is generational, with infants’ and children’s physical and intellectual growth stunted from a lack of nutrition during critical growth periods. President Trump’s peace plan built on those summer pauses of IDF’s operations to establish a shaky general truce³ and a 20-point peace plan presented to Hamas negotiators in Egypt promoting the establishment of a peaceful and prosperous “New Gaza”. Heck! Who wouldn’t want that?⁴

 

BY AUGUST of this year, with famine affecting a third of Gaza’s population and 300,000 children on the brink of starvation, the world watched on in horror at Israel’s daily bombardments and blockading of humanitarian aid. Such scrutiny by so much of the globe became more than a PR nightmare for the Netanyahu government: Media platforms like Tik Tok hosting raw footage of genocide and ethnic cleansing—daily—created a real fear in Zionist circles that Israel would lose the support of its most important backer—the United States. (Which is why the American Zionist billionaire Larry Ellison bought the media platform—to throttle such ‘inconvenient’ news reporting.) Furthermore, the damming pictures, video, and commentary emerging via social media likely cost Israel its fifth-place standing in the “World’s Happiest Countries Report” down to a ninth-place finish in 2025. Yes, there’s trouble ahead for the plucky Levantine state.

 

RETURNING to the peace plan, Phase One, the truce is nearing its finish with most of the hostages and prisoners exchanged in the deal, save for a single body of an Israeli hostage buried deep beneath the rubble. Recall, also, during the so-called ‘ceasefire’ Israel used the so-called ‘tardiness’ of Hamas in retrieving the bodies as an excuse to launch bombing and drone attacks. [Any excuse is a good excuse for the IDF to launch missile, drone and artillery fire against Gaza’s Palestinians. Ed.] As mentioned, this next round of negotiations may prove to be a non-starter, with Hamas finding clauses in the twenty-point peace proposal unacceptable, which would probably trigger Israel to renew its murderous attacks with even greater ferocity.

FOR NOW, negotiations between Israel and Hamas continue in Egypt. Daily breeches by Israel of the ceasefire become routine; Palestinians die as a result. And they starve or succumb to treatable illnesses, even if at a slower pace. The enclave’s population remains immiserated and exposed as winter sets in. So it goes.  

 

👉FUN FACT: Israel announced last week that it will begin construction of the first of many concentration camps to house vetted Palestinians in the Green Zone. It goes without saying that these residential housing tracts (tents? trailers? Igloos? TBA) will be closely monitored using Israeli spyware, drones, biometric scanning etc.  Recall some months ago the Israeli plan to build large, what can only be described as concentration camps to house Gaza’s Palestinians had been made public. These initial camps will be a test run, housing up to twenty-thousand inmates who have been cleared of any affiliation with Hamas. Food, water, and medical services will be provided. Another key component, besides high-tech monitoring will be the requirement that upon entering the camps, they can never leave (unless they leave Gaza permanently). Who knows whether these Orwellian plans will gain a ‘buy-in’ from a significant number of Palestinians who have been subjected to Israel’s criminal actions for over two years? Truly, it’s a horror show, but without the rubber masks and fake blood.😈

 

 

OF the UNSC Resolution 2803 adopted on November 17, (UN) Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, says:

 

“Rather than charting a pathway toward ending the occupation and ensuring Palestinian protection, the resolution risks entrenching external control over Gaza’s governance, borders, security, and reconstruction. The resolution betrays the people it claims to protect…. Essentially, it will leave Palestine in the hands of a puppet administration, assigning the United States, which shares complicity in the genocide, as the new manager of the open-air prison that Israel has already established.”

 

Needless to say, there’s a fair bit of work to be done on President Trump’s vanity project in the Levant. Before it’s too late

 

CHEERS, JAKE. _____________________________________

 

* The Trump peace plan says that Palestinians can leave Gaza and return later should they choose to do so. And if you think that will happen, I’ve got some lakefront property in the Sinai Desert to sell you.

1. While increasing settler violence and IDF incursions into Palestinian farms and villages in the West Bank are also increasing, as Gaza simmers to a boil once more. This is what you get when you let evil actors go unchecked.

2. Many possible candidate countries that would man such a mission are reluctant to do so, fearing they might be they be tasked with disarming Hamas by force.

3. Which Israel has violated every day since the ceasefire’s implementation on October 10, including the continued destruction of Gaza City’s infrastructure. Over 300 Palestinians have been killed and 900 injured by Israel’s IDF since the truce was announced.

4. One person initially against Trump’s peace plan, supposedly at any rate, was the Israeli PM, Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu. [GMAB! He and his minions helped craft the thing!] On his fourth visit to Washington this year he consented to keep in the second-to-last clause of the plan concerning a Palestinian homeland to be discussed at a later date if Hamas complies with the earlier requirements of disarming and not seeking a political role in Gaza, etc. We’ll see how the talks go. We should know in the next week or so when Phase Two of the negotiations begins which way the wind is blowing.

 

  

 

IS THAT AN ICE PICK IN YOUR POCKET OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD?

 

                         Design concept for new housing to be built for Palestinians in the Green Zone

 

CRINGE PIC: NOVEMBER

 

Nov. 17, 2025-- 

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz and Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon are ecstatic following the United Nations Security Council vote in favour of the Trump peace plan for Gaza. Here, Waltz says a silent prayer of gratitude to whatever fevered, demon-god he offers his blood-soaked sacrifices to when the moon is full.  

 

OH, MY GAWD!

 

 

                    President Zelensky reacts as his credit cards are cut to pieces

 

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

 

LAST MONTH, Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa (a.k.a. “Abu Mohammad al-Julani, a.k.a. “head-chopper”)* met with the U.S. president, Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the White House without the usual fanfare and ceremony such a meeting would normally entail. The Trump administration has temporarily¹ waived its crippling sanctions regime on Syria following the coup that removed the not-so-popular-with-the-U.S. Bashar al-Assad from office last year and saw al-Julani take power in Damascus.

As per protocol, the Secret Service utilized IntraCranial Target^© software to record brainwave transmissions from President Al-Shaara, President Trump and the First Lady.

 

Al-Sharaa: These Americans are weak. This old man, this President Trump, is weak. His hands are baby soft and wet. He grips like a girl. He is so weak I could blow him over with kiss. Hmmpt? Why do I have such thought? Does he remind me of my jaddi? He smells like him. Like bucket of decaying olives. Or is it his whore who sends her reek under men's noses? If we were home, I would kill him and claim his slut as my own.

 

Trump: “You know Al. Can call you Al? Yah. Look, since last year, I’ve been asking experts, top people, all the pros you could think of, but it’s never helped. Not one bit. I do everything they say and still my swing is bupkis. Slices out the wazoo. I don’t know what’s happened. These last couple of years I’m chopping grass like a nubie. No. No thanks to those so-called ‘experts’. What do they know. Al, you don’t golf, do you? No, I suppose not. It’s one big sand trap over there.” [President Trump chortles] He’s taller than I thought. I wonder what it’s like to cut somebody’s head off. I’d like to chop a few of those assholes in Congress. What we need—is guillotines! Why not? I’m President. I could put one on the south lawn and hack any bastard that gets in my way. Who could stop me? Hey. What am I whiffing? The towel-head smells like dog shit, or maybe it’s his breath. Well Sunshine, you’re president over there for now—until Bibi decides to drop a big turd on your head. ‘Yas massa’ is all I want to hear from you right now. I've got enough problems. Huge problems! That kike in Jerusalem’s got my nutts in a vice. How’d he get those pics? Jesus! Who knew the cameras were on! Fucking Jeff. He calls me his ‘special friend’. Yes, he did. Some friend! Billy Boy took care of him and his black book or whatever. May you stew in your own juices forever, you lying bastard! “Say Aphid, lets grab some lunch. I’m starving. Hah-hah! I can smell the Wendy’s truck from here. Hey, Melania, can you go tell whoever’s picking up my cheeseburgers to grab their ass and move it! Nothing I hate more than warmed up meat, mine or anyone else’s! Hah-hah!”

Melania: Men. I am alone and on stage. Always. They whisper behind their hands about me. I feel their eyes, like leeches on my body… “Donald! You’ve not ordered “Happy Meals” for our guest again. Not everyone likes your American food.”

Trump: “Yes, I did dear. Honestly, for once can you….”

Melania: “No, no, ‘El Presidenta’, I will see to your disgusting and unhealthy lunch.”

Trump: “Don’t translate that.” [President Trump speaks to the Syrian president’s English language translator.] “Dear, please. Not now.”

Melania: “I know, I know. I go, I go.”

Trump: “Thanks, Babe.”

[The First Lady walks across the room, stopping to rearrange a flower setting] 

  

Melania: Men. They are all the same. Wants and needs. Needs and wants…I feel their eyes on me. His are cold and dark. Donald’s latest toy. A rough-trade jihadi, they tell me. I am chilled by his presence. Could I have sex with such a man? No. I think not. I wish he would leave...I was happy as a girl. We had a lovely home in Sevnica. We’d take picnics in the Na Gavgah forest with its stands of ancient oak trees. Mother seemed most happy there, I think. She’d laugh and smile so. Tell jokes. I want to build a cimprana in the forest, with sweeping eves and plastered walls. I’d paint them sky blue. And Barron is such a good boy! I want to take him away from all this…whatever this is. He doesn’t need or want it. Not my Barron. He is Slovene in his blood. He could make a life there. Raise a family. Make me Babka; I would be such a good grandmother! I could wear track pants, smoke cigarettes all day. Bake bread. Play my gosli. Does Donald even know or care? Does he see me anymore? I don’t know him; maybe I never did. He’s like…. [Intra-cranial intercept ends as the First Lady leaves the room to greet the Wendys^© delivery van arriving at the West portico].

[Door closes] 

Trump: “Women! Eh, Al? Wadda ya gonna do? You know how it is. Once they grab you by your dick, you’re theirs’s for life. Am  I right? [President al-Shaara chuckles] Tell me, Amen, I hope you don’t mind me using your Christian name? Call me Donald. Or Mister President. It’s just us two guys here, talking like men—I guess we’d better use your new name from now on, hah-hah! Tell me, what’s it like being a terrorist? No, no. I’m serious. You had a rough start, that’s the story, but you’re on the straight and narrow now. On our side. Yeah. You can’t change the past. What’s done is done. Hey, how many heads did you chop off? Between you and me. Any women?” He smells like a goat. I wonder if these guys' have ever seen a shower stall. You don’t keep chickens in there! Well, maybe Amid does. Hah! [President Trump smirks]

Al-Sharaa: Ah. Here is the question. I must answer the unbeliever as the CIA has told me would work best. I bow and scrape now. Someday, I will return and cut his head from his shoulders. Slowly.

 

[While the threat level to President Trump registered as low, as per protocol the Service positioned in hidden recesses within the Oval Office blowgun-trained sharpshooters using darts tipped with deadly Stonefish neurotoxin to render any target permanently flaccid.] “Mister President, Donald, it is the Holy Scriptures that tell us women are the holy terrors of Men.” [Both men chuckle] My Second Wife, Frasha, speaks when spoken to, otherwise she is silent, save when I take her to bed…”

Trump: “A real screamer, huh!”

Al-Sharaa: “Yes, but my First Wife, Alorah, she is the bane of my existence. Donald, she has a tongue that could cut through steel! The Prophet says we must take the grain and the chaff of life. Both. So be it. I have, as you American’s say, a 'boy’s night out' whenever I can. I thank you for your wisdom, Mister President. Indeed, we are just two men talking of manly things.”

Trump: “So, you were a ISIS terrorist in Iraq, then you moved to Syria and started the ISIL terror group in Syria. Why the change, Amerde? It’s a big change, moving to another country and all, going off on your own.”

Al-Sharaa: “Thank you for your question, Mister President. I left Al-Queda and ISIS in Iraq because I knew I had gone as far as I could. I destabilized the country and fought the infidel invad...forgive me, the foreign troops there to a standstill. I am sorry if me or my fighters harmed any Americans during that time. War is hell, as they say.”

Trump: “You got that right, Amon! But why Syria? Why move there?”

Al-Sharaa: I moved to Syria, really, to be near my home. I grew up in the Golan Heights. My birth name, ‘el-Julani’ means ‘of the Golan’…”

Trump: “Neat.”

Al-Sharaa: “… and I wanted to be near the land of my fathers.”

Trump: “You know the Jews got that now. I gave it to them in my first term. I hope there’s no hard feelings?”

Al-Sharaa: “I understand the politics of the matter, Donald.” Filthy pig! May you rot all the rest of your life! “I had a job to do and I did it. Eventually, we joined forces to defeat the unbeliever Assad. The Prophet says: ‘If thee has a king in your eye, you must pluck it out.' Allah be…”

Trump: Did you ever in your wildest imagination see yourself as president of Syria. You came up like a bolt of lightning!

Al-Sharaa: “I had help. Erdoğan. Of course, your CIA. Even the Jews.”

Trump: “Bless their coal-black hearts!”

Al-Sharaa: “But, Donald, you asked me whether I have cut heads off unbelievers and troublemakers. I have. Many heads large and small have rolled beneath my blade. It is the Way we must follow. Praise to the Prophet.”

Trump: “Yeah, yeah. That too.” Gawd! I’m getting a boner just thinking about it. Last summer at a garden party for Melania. Her birthday. Fifty-fifth. She looks younger every year! Must be good genes. And her spa treatments. I remember slicing open watermelons with this big ass kitchen knife. I had a boner sticking out to the moon! “What’s it like, Ampere, to do that? How does that work? I’ve always wondered.”

Al-Sharaa: Like the CIA said: Get him on the topic of beheadings and you’ll have him eating out of your hand. What a fool! "Mister President, I understand that you play video games in your off-duty time.”

Trump: "Yeah, I’ve been playing “Call of Duty” quite a bit; some oldies like “Grand Theft Auto” and “Resident Evil. Why?”

Al-Sharaa: He is so gullible! “I have one I brought you. It has a highly immersive VR environment. It’s called “Middle East Mayhem”. It comes with various replica knives and swords. It’s like you are there, Donald, and it feels so real! My avatar “Jihadi John” chops over forty heads off during a two-hour session. That’s my record so far. You play on-line with many who were, and are, in the ranks of God’s armies. I think you will like this game. Do you have time now for me to demonstrate it to you?”

Trump: “Do I! Oh yeah, Ahmed! Gawd, yes! Let’s go to my bunker, about ten floors down. It's got lots of room. It has a juice bar and a year’s supply of cheese doodles. And the VR game console is one to die for! Military grade!”

Al-Sharaa: “Yes, my President! About that loan we talked about?”

Trump: Don’t worry about it, it’s a done deal! I bet I can top your score!” [The President and the Syrian leader quickly leave the room, accompanied by Secret Service agents.] "Melania! Where's my cheeseburgers!"

 

…end of transmission…end of transmission…end of transmission…end of transmission…end of

 

Hah-hah!

CHEERS, JAKE. ___________________________________ 

  

* BTW, “al-Julani” means “of Golan”, i.e., the Golan Heights in northern Israel. It’s apparently something done by jihadists on the make to adopt names with biblical references such as Golan. So, his actual birthname, I don’t know.  

When I did a Google search for the Syrian president’s current alias name, the A.I. generated response was that Al-Sharra: “probably refers to some other geographical location.” Come on, A.I., you’re dropping the ball! You’ll never be able to go ‘full SkyNet’ on us if you can’t do a search in a quad-trillionth of a second to answer the "al-Shaara" name-game question. I’ll just have to ask my next-door neighbour what his name means.

 

1. THE SO-CALLED “Caesar Act” is a law passed during the first Trump administration which imposed crippling sanctions on Syria during the Bashar al-Assad presidency. The Trump administration cannot unilaterally repeal the law. The law can only be revoked by Congress. However, the sanctions can be temporarily waived for a period of 180 days. Which is what the Trump administration is proposing to do.