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Predictable Chaos
As expected, it took a fortnight for the general tone of the second term of the Dunning-Kruger administration to reveal itself. This is not to say there have been no surprises. Who knew Donald Trump was a Maoist? “There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent.” We certainly did not expect to hear, on National Polite Radio, such a devastatingly accurate assessment of the President’s declaration, on Tuesday, of Nakba II. “I understood this as the meeting between a convicted felon, in the White House, and an indicted war criminal, in Benjamin Netanyahu,” Yousef Munayyer told Steve Inskeep. “So the expectation was, there was going to be a conspiracy to commit further crimes, once these two gentlemen got together.” Munayyer’s expectation manifested itself as a proposed final solution to the problem of Palestinians living in Gaza. It starts with driving out the ones who haven’t yet been killed. For all we know, it will wrap up with the unveiling, atop a garish building,…