Trump’s Fountain Spills ‘Blood’
Published in Juventud Rebelde
(Cuba) on 30 June 2020
by Juana Carrasco Martín (link to original)
A fountain in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva was the object of protests against an alliance of extremists.
In the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, there is a Donald Trump Square, a symbol of the conspiracy the Zionist government has with the U.S. president. In the middle is a fountain, which became the vehicle protesters used to express their frustration as a response to this alliance of extremists.
This week, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is expected to reveal its plans to extend annexation into the occupied West Bank. This will mean an increased repression of Palestinians and the deterioration of their already very reduced territories, due to the expansion efforts in the Zionist colonies, a vital instrument in the genocide.
However, at the beginning of the week, blood-red water spouted from the fountain in the Trump Square as a protest against the policy. “The annexation will cost us in blood,” was written on the ground, forecasting a response of outrage from the Palestinian people.
Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg ordered the collection of security camera footage from the scene and demanded that a complaint be filed against the "vandals."
This is the same mayor who, in July 2019, inaugurated the square and fountain with the statement, “Israel never had a president who is as supportive and helpful as U.S. President Donald Trump. It is only fitting to name a major square in the fourth largest Israeli city after him.”
This was one of the "homages" paid to the American head of state for having recognized Jerusalem as the "capital" of Israel. The other homage took place a month before, when Netanyahu named a new community in the Golan Heights, a region in stolen Syrian land, Ramat Trump to thank him for recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over this territory.
Last November, a boarding school for hundreds of troubled youths, with the intention that they would then enter the Israel Defense Forces, was named Trump Heights. A train stop in Jerusalem's Old City was also named in honor of Trump.
Now in Petah Tikva, they've expressed their disapproval of the man in the White House, who is already overwhelmed by the protests in his own country against racism, the siege of the pandemic, books exposing his ineptitude and other dirty laundry being aired a little more than four months from an election that is risky for him. If I were superstitious, I’d say the dyed waters of the Israeli fountain aren’t a good omen.
In the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, there is a Donald Trump Square, a symbol of the conspiracy the Zionist government has with the U.S. president. In the middle is a fountain, which became the vehicle protesters used to express their frustration as a response to this alliance of extremists.
This week, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is expected to reveal its plans to extend annexation into the occupied West Bank. This will mean an increased repression of Palestinians and the deterioration of their already very reduced territories, due to the expansion efforts in the Zionist colonies, a vital instrument in the genocide.
However, at the beginning of the week, blood-red water spouted from the fountain in the Trump Square as a protest against the policy. “The annexation will cost us in blood,” was written on the ground, forecasting a response of outrage from the Palestinian people.
Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg ordered the collection of security camera footage from the scene and demanded that a complaint be filed against the "vandals."
This is the same mayor who, in July 2019, inaugurated the square and fountain with the statement, “Israel never had a president who is as supportive and helpful as U.S. President Donald Trump. It is only fitting to name a major square in the fourth largest Israeli city after him.”
This was one of the "homages" paid to the American head of state for having recognized Jerusalem as the "capital" of Israel. The other homage took place a month before, when Netanyahu named a new community in the Golan Heights, a region in stolen Syrian land, Ramat Trump to thank him for recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over this territory.
Last November, a boarding school for hundreds of troubled youths, with the intention that they would then enter the Israel Defense Forces, was named Trump Heights. A train stop in Jerusalem's Old City was also named in honor of Trump.
Now in Petah Tikva, they've expressed their disapproval of the man in the White House, who is already overwhelmed by the protests in his own country against racism, the siege of the pandemic, books exposing his ineptitude and other dirty laundry being aired a little more than four months from an election that is risky for him. If I were superstitious, I’d say the dyed waters of the Israeli fountain aren’t a good omen.
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