NB: This is typical racist blackmail at the point of a gun: surrender or we will continue slaughtering and starving children, women and men. It is also noteworthy that Trump and Netanyahu changed the terms of the ‘deal’ behind the backs of the other participants in the negotiations, ensuring Israels continuing control over Gaza. This betrayal has been described in detail by Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
The western world will continue to implode politically, morally and institutionally because of this deceitlful and inhuman behaviour. It is difficult to imagine the Hamas leadership (which was aided by Netanyahu, in case we have forgotten) or the Palestinian people at large accepting this brutal humiliation after so much suffering. As the ex IDF soldier Seth Anziska has put it in his book on US policy, the entire strategy of the US and Israel can be summed up in two words: Preventing Palestine. DS
The great betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim rulers backed Trump’s Gaza plan
David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, has criticised regional leaders for backing the Gaza plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump on Monday. “Regional leaders have responded to the bravery and steadfastness that Gaza’s Palestinians have shown with fear, cowardice and self-interest,” said Hearst.
He noted that the plan announced in Washington diverged significantly from the version previously agreed upon in New York. “But that is the charitable way of reading what they have done,” Hearst added. “Betrayal is another word that comes to mind.”
What does Trump’s plan mean for the state of Palestine?
The Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by US President Donald Trump, and which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has accepted, may not deliver the results Palestinians have long hoped for, analysts tell Al Jazeera.
While people on the ground would be infinitely relieved by a halt in Israel’s vicious bombardment that has killed at least 66,055 people and wounded 168,346 since October 2023, the 20-point Trump plan contains almost nothing else positive for the people of Palestine, analysts say….
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Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)
Gaza and the Death of Conscience
Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
A Brief History of the Netanyahu-Hamas Alliance
Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera
Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
Rashid Khalidi: ‘Israel Has Created a Nightmare Scenario for Itself. The Clock Is Ticking’
Seth Anziska on Dominant Orthodoxies
Gaza and the Death of Conscience
Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gaza
Israel’s War in Gaza Is Nothing but a War of Annihilation
Israel’s Assassination of Memory
Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children
William Dalrymple’s speech on how colonialism led to the genocide in Gaza
After the truth-shower 