When Co-perpetrator of Genocide Becomes Peacemaker!
P J James
Trump’s 20-point Gaza Peace Plan that calls for immediate ceasefire and wide-ranging peace process, comes in the context of growing international isolation of Zionist regime. Among other things, the Plan involves demilitarization of Gaza and making it a terror free zone along with disarming and decommissioning of Hamas which has been resolutely resisting Zionism; release of hostages, first by Hamas and then by Israel; creation of a US-led “international stabilization force” with the involvement of Arab States and a Transitional Authority led by Trump and Tony Blair (who, as part of Bush-Blair notorious “evil axis” slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people in 2003); de-radicalisation of Gazans who are survivors of holocausts through religious dialogue; etc. On the other hand, there is no mention of punishing the war criminals like Netanyahu for the crimes he committed against humanity, disbanding the IDF, GHF and others for the horrors unleashed on civilians including children and pregnant women. A meaningful peace plan should have also included appropriate measures for dealing with US, which, through weaponization and funding, acted as the patron and co-perpetrator of the Zionist crimes. Of course, nothing of the sort can be expected from a peace plan designed by Trump and endorsed by Netanyahu, co-perpetrator and perpetrator of the genocide.
As such, Trump’s peace-deal is totally silent on the core issue of the right of return of Palestinians to Israel from where they were driven out since 1948 Nakba that followed the UK-US superimposition of Zionist state on the Palestinians. In fact, the present Trump-Netanyahu peace plan that is superimposed on the Palestinians without even consulting them is also a tragic repetition of what the US-UK axis together with Zionists did in1948. And, above all, Trump’s peace deal ignores the most fundamental question of self-determination and statehood for Palestinians.
No doubt, this Trumpian exercise in deception, is an ingenious move to save his closest ally Netanyahu, who is declared a “war criminal” by ICC, from the wrath of the global community, and in the process to whitewash the “crimes against humanity” committed by the US-Zionist Nexus. For, after endorsing Trump’s plan that cunningly covers up the accountability of US-Zionist nexus in Gaza genocide, at the White House Press Conference on 29 September, Netanyahu praised Trump, his patron and imperialist master thus: “You’ve proven time and again what I’ve said many times – you are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.” Equally despicable is the quick endorsement of the Trump plan by Anglo-Saxon allies of US and Arab lackeys who are all complicit in the ongoing holocaust on Palestinians. As reported, the leaders of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have issued a joint statement “welcoming” Trump’s “sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza”, thereby falling into the US-Zionist trap and betraying the Palestinian people. And, in tune with the Zionist-Evangelist-Hindutva unholy nexus, the neo-fascist Indian regime has also upheld the peace plan of imperialist Trump.
If the Trumpian plan comes into force, then Gaza will be taken over by the International Stabilization Force (ISF), a kind of outsourcing of Gaza to an ‘external force’, but linked with the vicious US-Zionist nexus, in tune with standard neocolonial arrangements of US imperialism. As already mentioned, the Transitional Authority and Board of Peace led by Trump-Blair duo will begin overseeing the transition indefinitely, regarding which no time frame is scheduled in the ‘peace plan’. And, while the core issues of the Palestinians including statehood are kept out of the agenda. Hamas will have to leave the scene, even as Zionist regime and troops will continue in Gaza unchallenged, giving them new avenues of infiltration and expansion to West Bank.
In spite of that, far-right and extremely reactionary Zionists in Netanyahu’s cabinet like finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is also a declared “war criminal” has condemned Trump-Netanyahu plan as a “political failure”. And to appease such elements like him, Netanyahu had also stated that “Israel will retain security responsibility for the foreseeable future” in Gaza. True, while imperialists of all hues, neo-fascists and their apologists alike are eulogizing the Trumpian plan, just hours before, Zionist regime has ordered Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate the city or be considered terrorists. Meanwhile, reports on Israeli navy intercepting vessels that form part of Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) and detaining the activists aboard including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, are also coming in.
Thus, the Zionist regime is again revealing itself as the embodiment of criminality and terrorism. The much trumpeted Trumpian ‘peace project’ is intended for whitewashing this criminal and terrorist character of Netanyahu government and to grant impunity and exonerate it from the crimes that it has committed against humanity, by diverting the attention of world people, thereby hoodwinking them, and for the unabated continuity of Zionist “settler colonialism”. It is becoming more and more evident that an independent, secular, and democratic Palestinian State cannot co-exist with Zionist regime. Hence, it is upto the international community to reject this 20-point (or 21-point) Trumpian Gaza Peace Plan which is an ‘exercise in deception’.
P J James
When Co-perpetrator of Genocide Becomes Peacemaker!
Trump’s 20-point Gaza Peace Plan that calls for immediate ceasefire and wide-ranging peace process, comes in the context of growing international isolation of Zionist regime. Among other things, the Plan involves demilitarization of Gaza and making it a terror free zone along with disarming and decommissioning of Hamas which has been resolutely resisting Zionism; release of hostages, first by Hamas and then by Israel; creation of a US-led “international stabilization force” with the involvement of Arab States and a Transitional Authority led by Trump and Tony Blair (who, as part of Bush-Blair notorious “evil axis” slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people in 2003); de-radicalisation of Gazans who are survivors of holocausts through religious dialogue; etc. On the other hand, there is no mention of punishing the war criminals like Netanyahu for the crimes he committed against humanity, disbanding the IDF, GHF and others for the horrors unleashed on civilians including children and pregnant women. A meaningful peace plan should have also included appropriate measures for dealing with US, which, through weaponization and funding, acted as the patron and co-perpetrator of the Zionist crimes. Of course, nothing of the sort can be expected from a peace plan designed by Trump and endorsed by Netanyahu, co-perpetrator and perpetrator of the genocide.
As such, Trump’s peace-deal is totally silent on the core issue of the right of return of Palestinians to Israel from where they were driven out since 1948 Nakba that followed the UK-US superimposition of Zionist state on the Palestinians. In fact, the present Trump-Netanyahu peace plan that is superimposed on the Palestinians without even consulting them is also a tragic repetition of what the US-UK axis together with Zionists did in1948. And, above all, Trump’s peace deal ignores the most fundamental question of self-determination and statehood for Palestinians.
No doubt, this Trumpian exercise in deception, is an ingenious move to save his closest ally Netanyahu, who is declared a “war criminal” by ICC, from the wrath of the global community, and in the process to whitewash the “crimes against humanity” committed by the US-Zionist Nexus. For, after endorsing Trump’s plan that cunningly covers up the accountability of US-Zionist nexus in Gaza genocide, at the White House Press Conference on 29 September, Netanyahu praised Trump, his patron and imperialist master thus: “You’ve proven time and again what I’ve said many times – you are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.” Equally despicable is the quick endorsement of the Trump plan by Anglo-Saxon allies of US and Arab lackeys who are all complicit in the ongoing holocaust on Palestinians. As reported, the leaders of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have issued a joint statement “welcoming” Trump’s “sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza”, thereby falling into the US-Zionist trap and betraying the Palestinian people. And, in tune with the Zionist-Evangelist-Hindutva unholy nexus, the neo-fascist Indian regime has also upheld the peace plan of imperialist Trump.
If the Trumpian plan comes into force, then Gaza will be taken over by the International Stabilization Force (ISF), a kind of outsourcing of Gaza to an ‘external force’, but linked with the vicious US-Zionist nexus, in tune with standard neocolonial arrangements of US imperialism. As already mentioned, the Transitional Authority and Board of Peace led by Trump-Blair duo will begin overseeing the transition indefinitely, regarding which no time frame is scheduled in the ‘peace plan’. And, while the core issues of the Palestinians including statehood are kept out of the agenda. Hamas will have to leave the scene, even as Zionist regime and troops will continue in Gaza unchallenged, giving them new avenues of infiltration and expansion to West Bank.
In spite of that, far-right and extremely reactionary Zionists in Netanyahu’s cabinet like finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is also a declared “war criminal” has condemned Trump-Netanyahu plan as a “political failure”. And to appease such elements like him, Netanyahu had also stated that “Israel will retain security responsibility for the foreseeable future” in Gaza. True, while imperialists of all hues, neo-fascists and their apologists alike are eulogizing the Trumpian plan, just hours before, Zionist regime has ordered Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate the city or be considered terrorists. Meanwhile, reports on Israeli navy intercepting vessels that form part of Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) and detaining the activists aboard including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, are also coming in.
Thus, the Zionist regime is again revealing itself as the embodiment of criminality and terrorism. The much trumpeted Trumpian ‘peace project’ is intended for whitewashing this criminal and terrorist character of Netanyahu government and to grant impunity and exonerate it from the crimes that it has committed against humanity, by diverting the attention of world people, thereby hoodwinking them, and for the unabated continuity of Zionist “settler colonialism”. It is becoming more and more evident that an independent, secular, and democratic Palestinian State cannot co-exist with Zionist regime. Hence, it is upto the international community to reject this 20-point (or 21-point) Trumpian Gaza Peace Plan which is an ‘exercise in deception’.
