SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: SMOTRICH: ISRAEL MAKING A KILLING FROM GENOCIDE

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SMOTRICH: ISRAEL MAKING A KILLING FROM GENOCIDE

By now, it's widely suspected that Donald Trump has engaged in market manipulation since the start of his criminal war on Iran. Every Truth Social post seems precisely timed to keep stock prices artificially high and oil futures artificially low. And until recently, traders have flocked like sheep to Trump's every beck and call. It's so predictable that even Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has turned it into actionable investment advice.

But as with every aspect of this war, Trump is just following the lead of his Israeli partners in crime. In both the 12- and 40-day wars, Iran's retaliatory strikes dealt Israel billions in material losses. Since October 7, the conscription of reservists and expulsion of Palestinian workers have hollowed out the labour force. Emigration has skyrocketed over the course of Israel's g*nocide in Gaza and ensuing wars of aggression.

But as far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich crowed in a recent speech, the Tel Aviv stock exchange remains blissfully aloof from this grim material reality. Both of its main indices have more than doubled in value since October 2023. And the Israeli government can now borrow more cheaply in US bond markets than even the United States itself.

It's a sick testament to how mass death is converted directly into imperial profits. How the 'battle-tested' machinery of g*nocide single-handedly keeps the settler economy afloat. And how the US-Israeli elite will keep laughing all the way to the bank, until its entire house of cards comes crashing down.