Even if Hamas accepts the plan, Netanyahu will NOT respect it.
Netanyahu's plan is to take all of Palestine. By laying down a plan that is 90% favorable to the Zionists, with no timelines or guarantees, and without any reference to a Palestinian State, Donald Trump has ushered a new cycle of violence that will go on for another few decades. The US-Zionist plot is to either force the Palestinians (through Hamas that does not represent the Palestinians) to surrender by accepting a very bad plan, or to reject it and receive the blame for it. Thus, this is not a “peace” plan, it is a surrender plan for all of Palestine, not just Gaza. The plan makes no reference to a State of Palestine.
Moreover, the plan calls on Gaza to be managed by "experts" suprevised by a Council led by Trump himself, which reflects the mercantile desires of the White House jackass who sees Palestine as no more than a real estate development project, not a project of liberty and self-determination. This is nothing short of a re-start of the colonial project at the genesis of the creation of rapist Israel and the tragedy of Palestine, especially with the involvement of the English crook and Iraq-war-liar Tony Blair, whose interests are also mercantile because he's been running around - and under - the long robes of Arab Gulf oil-drenched dinosaurs making deals.
The West doesn't seem to understand that the only long term solution is SELF-DETERMINATION. Why are the Palestinians denied the right to rule themselves? Why do they need more soldiers, supervisors, and other custodians to manage -and otherwise kill - their lives? Haven't they had enough of 402 years of Turkish Ottoman occupation, followed by the 25 years of the treacherous British mandate (that sold Palestine to the European Zionist Jews), then by the savagery of the Zionist occupation? The object of the British mandate (in 1919) was to give the Palestinians - then deemed sufficiently developed not to warrant their colonization - assistance in building their nascent state's institutions, just as the French were given a mandate in neighboring Lebanon for the same purpose, and while the mandate worked for the Lebanese under the more decent French, the British criminal crooks sold Palestine to European Jews who had "colonial envy" vis-a-vis the other European colonial empires of the time, the Belgians, the French, the British, the Spanish, etc... Every one had an empire pilfering the resources of some poor country across the global south, and the Jews thought they could have their own me-too little colony in which to torment the indigenous people and steal their resources.
The Arabs have a very powerful oil card to play to force the West. In 1973, the Arabs imposed an oil embargo on the West to force it to recognize Palestine. Not a year later, Yasser Arafat was invited to speak at the UN as the sole representative of the Palestinian people, the first time the Palestinians were recognized as a nation. Nowadays, with Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil out of the picture, the Arabs have an even more powerful oil card to play to force the West, particularly the US, to recognize a Palestinian state against the wishes of the Zionists. But Arab states have been cowered by the US and Israel brandishing the Iranian boogeyman to force the Arabs into submission to the desiderata of the Zionists.
The Trump plan is like a Russian nesting doll of aspirations that never materialize into any concrete advantage to the Palestinians. From one aspiration to the other, it gives the Palestinians nothing of substance to hang on to. Trump is convinced that the Palestinians should be grateful and satisfied with the cessation of the killings, the starvation and the abuses. But someone should tell this moron that this is not enough for people seeking freedom and emancipation from colonial brutality.
WHAT DO THE ZIONISTS WANT TO DO WITH THE PALESTINIANS, ABSENT A PALESTINIAN STATE?
No one has ever heard, and no one seems to have ever asked, the terrorist Zionist government of Netanyahu WHAT EXACTLY is their Zionist plan for the Palestinians, if not a Palestinian state. The undeclared answer is simple: The Zionists have no plan for the Palestinians because they imagine their "democracy-for-Jews-only" WITHOUT the Palestinians. In theory, you could imagine a one-state solution in which Jews and Palestinians live together, equitably sharing the land and the institutions, but the fundamentalist ultra-religious criminals of both sides (Hamas for Muslims, and Zionists for Jews) are so dug in after all the hurt and damage that this seems like an impossibility at this time.
Rather, the Zionists want a return to the status quo ante prior to October 7, 2023, which had served them well for close to three decades:
- continue sowing division between the Palestinians as a way to weaken them.
- continue the 5 decades old brutalization of the Palestinian population with separation walls, 800 checkpoints across the West Bank, humiliation and dehumanization, expulsions, home demolitions,...
- Illegal settler theft of land and harassment of West Bank villagers and demolition of their homes, villages and olive groves.
- continued building of settlements and a forced demographic change whose sole reason is to preclude a Palestinian State.
- continued annexations of West bank territory to further reduce the territorial contiguity of a future Palestinian state
The Zionists were very comfortable with the status quo because there was no pressure on them to cease their 70-year long rape of Palestine, and they would like to return to it because that has always been their plan whose ultimate objective was the de-Palestinization of Palestine and eliminating it from the map by creating “facts on the ground” favorable to the Zionist expansion. The Zionists did not have to make an official declaration of wanting to annex the West Bank and Gaza because they were de facto annexing them. A public declaration would raise the ire of many countries, which is what has actually happened lately when the terrorist ministers of Netanyahu suggested an annexation in response to the recognition of a Palestinian state. But the Zionists were already annexing the West Bank without declaring it. Perhaps the jig is up now. Everyone knows now that the Zionists never wanted peace with the Palestinians because they never wanted the Palestinians to begin with. Ever since 1947, their goal has been to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous original people.
Whether or not the plan is accepted by Hamas is no longer the issue. Despite its horrific nature, the October 7 attack has shuffled the cards to the benefit of the Palestinians by forcing the Zionists to expose their brutality and savagery. Which is why Netanyahu is going full butcher. He doesn’t want a ceasefire or an end to his genocide in Gaza. Things were extremely fine for the Zionists prior to October 7. Now they have to deal with a world awakened to the one-century-old colonial rape of Palestine, and unfortunately for them, a return to the golden age prior to October 7 when they could do whatever they want in Palestine is no longer possible.
Therefore, what do the Zionists want to do with the Palestinians? There about 5 million of them between Gaza and the West Bank, as many as there are Israelis. The Zionists have never made a single proposal for their thoughts on a solution to the fate of the Palestinians. As argued above, they may want to return to oppressing the Palestinians ad aeternum in the hope that they would cull the Palestinians population by slow killing, expelling, and a general pruning of the Palestinian population using Darwinian policies.
But if the world has changed and now understands what the Zionists are up to, the Zionists must make a fateful decision: Modify their slow-simmering ethnic cleansing into a fast-pace one-time catastrophic event of forcibly displacing the Palestinians out of Palestine. Given the stakes, the Zionists may have reached the conclusion that they will not have a similar golden opportunity (the pretext of terrorism) any time soon, and they may want to seize it to finish off Palestine once and for all. They may be willing to take the reputational hit, along with possible world sanctions, the isolation… as long as they get rid of the Palestinians. Then wait until the dust settles. They’ve always created "facts on the ground" before (with settlements and systematic brutality against the Palestinians) and they got away with it. The whole creation of Israel was one such "fact on the ground" over which the world shrugged its shoulders. One more definitive fact on the ground (mass expulsion of the Palestinians) would be such a victory that the Zionists may be willing to seize this last opportunity regardless of the negative consequences they may endure for some time afterwards.
If Hamas takes the bait and agrees to the Trump plan, all of Palestine would have lost. The Palestinians would also have trusted the Arabs one more time, those Arabs that never ceased betraying Palestine in the past. The Palestinians would be back again to the only option they’ve always had given the indifference and collusion of the world against them, namely to return to violence and terrorism, which in turn would give new impetus to the Zionist “I told you so” argument against statehood and freedom for the Palestinians. The Palestinians are terrorists, the defender of western civilization Netanyahu keeps saying, no matter what they do.
If Hamas doesn’t take the bait, then Netanyahu would have no qualms about publicly continuing his ethnic cleansing, but now in an express accelerated pace. He can argue that the Palestinians were offered a plan and they turned it down.
That has been the Zionist modus operandi: If the Palestinians accept peace, then give them a shitty peace that they cannot live with, then blame them for terrorism if they fight back. If the Palestinians reject peace because its terms are unacceptable, then they are blamed for missed opportunities. Hence, the Palestinians, more so than the Israelis, have been facing, and continue to face, an existential threat to their existence as a nation.
Unless the world community stands forcefully against US and Israeli policies and their hypocritical meandering around the real issue – Palestinian self-determination – there will be no change in the genocidal trajectory that the US and Israel are pursuing in Palestine.
Since the Trump deal does not expressly call for an independent Palestine, free from any Zionist colonial tentacles, then it is dead in the water.
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