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This will fall on deaf ears in the White House, no matter who the new resident will be next year, but here goes anyway: Chinese and Russian analysts are taking note of the United States’ inability to curb Israel or contain the conflict in the Middle East. This of course emboldens President Xi of China to move against Taiwan and deepens President Putin’s resolve as far as Ukraine is concerned.

Now that Israel’s Netanyahu has ramped up the conflict with Hezbollah and Iran, while continuing to flatten Gaza and killing thousands of innocents, something that Bill Clinton asked while president comes to mind: “Who is the superpower, us or Israel?” Historically, the United States has set an example of a superpower going over the top. Incinerating Dresden, Hamburg, and Berlin was deemed necessary because of Nazi evil. But to say that incinerating Tokyo, with 100,000 dead women, children, and old people, plus 200,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was necessary to shorten the war leaves a great question mark: Were the Japanese also evil, or did we force them to go to war after Uncle Franklin compelled them to it with his boycott?

Let us now get back to the present. The last functioning hospital in Gaza was recently destroyed by Israeli bombs, with its stockpile of medical supplies that were recently delivered by the World Health Organization going up in smoke. Doctors were detained and are being held. No surgeons are left, while there are children with abdominal shrapnel injuries and some are bleeding to death. If this is a just war, I’m a banana. Gaza is now one big atrocity, a bombed-out cemetery, its ruins a monument of man’s inhumanity. In Khan Younis 60 percent of anything standing is destroyed. In Gaza City 75 percent of buildings have been turned into dust. In Jabalia 85 percent of buildings have been destroyed. The dead are now close to 50,000, while the wounded are too many to even start counting. Famine and disease are everywhere and raging. A willfully blind media hides the truth.

Back in good old America, campuses are in full swing and Jewish students are claiming anti-Semitism is everywhere. A new House probe into campus anti-Semitism reveals college leaders across the country have failed to hold the line against bigotry. A headline screams that campus bigots are free to run amok. The bad guys are shown to be those who protest against Israel’s leveling of Gaza and turning it into one big cemetery.

So I ask you, dear Takimag readers: Is it possible in 2024 to kill close to 50,000 in exchange for the 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas, the latter always described as a terrorist organization; to level 80 percent of Gaza, injure thousands of women and children while starving them close to death; and then to demand that protesters on American campuses be called anti-Semites or else? The heads of Harvard and Penn have resigned after failing to call the protesters anti-Semitic. What I’d like to know is, since when does protesting the killing of innocents and the blowing up of hospitals mean the protesters are anti-Semites? George Orwell would have a field day were he alive today. This new newspeak makes his 1984 novel redundant.

Here’s Taki’s plan for Uncle Sam to somehow escape the role the gangster Netanyahu has managed to trap the good uncle into: Neither Kamala nor The Donald will feel secure enough in their new role as president to openly recognize that Israel has interests different from those of the United States. What the new insecure president can do is reiterate that Israel’s ability to look after itself is beyond doubt, and that the Jewish state has no serious enemies in the Arab world. Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the UAE, and the Saudis are itching for the Israelis to stop killing Palestinians and get back to doing business with them. Perhaps the new president will get enough courage to hint to the Israelis that a little moral restraint and some regard for the strictures of international law will not have the Jewish lobby up in arms. Lastly, if the new president suddenly feels like Captain Courageous, he or she could remind Israel that Hezbollah is close to being totally destroyed, that Tehran does not know the extent of Mossad’s penetration into its own ranks, and that the Palestinian dream of a two-state solution has gone with the wind, pardon the pun.

Alas, nothing like this will happen. Israel has pushed the Palestinians into disjointed enclaves, prompting them to emigrate. The plan to totally take over and get rid of Palestinians in the West Bank is now close to reality. The Palestinians will either emigrate or become generic Arabs, abandoning all national pretensions. The Israeli lobby will continue to attack any objections to Greater Israel on American campuses as grossly anti-Semitic, and the Oslo Accords of 1993 that established the Palestinians as a nation will be an exiles’ dream of long ago.