Trump Backs ISIS Thugs In Gaza
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump wants ISIS and its allies to police Gaza on his behalf. |
| 0:05.5 | Now, some of you might think, come on there way, you're being ridiculous. |
| 0:08.1 | This must be hyperbole. |
| 0:10.0 | It must be exaggeration. |
| 0:11.8 | However bad you think Donald Trump is, surely he wouldn't be wanting to use ISIS in Gaza. |
| 0:19.4 | But it isn't an exaggeration. This is't exclusive in the Daily Telegraph of all |
| 0:23.7 | newspapers. It's a staunchly right-wing pro-Israel newspaper. As their opening sentence says, |
| 0:30.2 | the White House wants to recruit organized crime and drug dealing gangs to form the new Gaza police force |
| 0:36.7 | the Telegraph can reveal. |
| 0:39.4 | Donald Trump's administration has presented plans for a new security force, heavily |
| 0:44.5 | staffed by members of existing anti-Hamas armed militias, according to multiple Western officials. |
| 0:51.4 | Now, we've covered this before. |
| 0:52.8 | The Israeli state has armed and backed criminal gangs, which have systematically looted aid in Gaza. As the telegraph notes, these armed gangs have also committed murders and kidnappings. And as the telegraph also notes, at least two of the major clan groups include members who have either actively fought alongside Islamic State or declared |
| 1:13.7 | allegiance to the terrorist organisation. And why are they recruiting these gangs? Because |
| 1:19.2 | according to one US military source, Donald Trump's so-called peace process, which is nothing of |
| 1:24.4 | the sort, will not work without reliable security partners. |
| 1:29.1 | So what's their idea of a reliable security partner? ISIS and drug dealers and criminals. |
| 1:39.2 | Astonishing, but it isn't astonishing, is it? We'll talk about this and why this, |
| 1:43.2 | the wider significance. |
| 1:44.9 | Involved in all of this is Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, who wants to declare |
| 1:49.7 | that Gaza's water from property could be very valuable. He's pushing for a new temporary, |
| 1:54.4 | so-called safe community in an area of Gaza under IDF control based on Hamas, not disarming. |
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