03/10/2025
Trump’s ‘Peace’ Deal
Trump met Netanyahu and then announced his Peace Deal for Gaza.
Hama surrenders control totally, Trump or Tony Blair run the show for a while until the Palestinian Authority is ready.
The Gazan get not to be thrown out or killed.
Any hostages still alive go back to Israel.
Albo supports this.
What is wrong?
Look at history. Israel used terror to kill the British, and the war-weary British let them migrate from being refugee in post-War Europe in large numbers. A land without people for a people without land’. Palestine had been a colony of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years, and then after WW1 a British ‘protectorate’. (?Colonial state, ?Spoils of WW1). The fact that it wasn’t a country did not mean that people did not live there. Jewish settlers piled in, and when they got to 36% of the population declared the ‘State of Israel’ in 1948, declaring all land title invalid and killing a few villagers. Many Palestinian inhabitants fled to refugee camps and their lands were expropriated. Arab countries tried to invade Israel, but Israel bought some cheap tanks and with good generals survived.
Israel talked about a 2 state solution, but as they did so they gradually moved settlers into the West Bank on all the high ground, linking them with roads, so that if the settlers were attacked by ‘terrorists’, i.e, the people who had had their land taken, they could be defended by the IDF (Army).
Ramallah was set up as the capital of the West Bank, not that there would even be a Palestinian state there, but it allowed them to move Palestinians out of Jerusalem. The international NGOs, wanting to help the Palestinians set up in Ramallah, building large comfortable buildings. This raised land values so that Palestinian s had trouble affording to live there, but also the Palestinian Authority lined their pockets arranging development approvals until they were totally compromised and just patsies of the Israelis.
Gaza was a Palestinian enclave, but its ability to grow was entirely dependent on Israeli goodwill as they had the border controls, so Gazan industries could not import or export reliably.
Palestinians are not particularly religious, but they voted for Hamas because Hamas would stand up to the Israelis. The Palestinians were in a totally apartheid situation, inferior in their own land. The menial jobs that they used to do in Jerusalem were given to imported Sri Lankans so they were deliberately forced out.
The other Arab states offered verbal support to the Palestinians , but were making peace with Israel. The endpoint was going to be that money ruled in international politics, Palestinians would have no money, no assets and no land. This is why Hamas launched its attack on October 7th; to put their issue back on the world stage.
Netanyahu, facing corruption charges, has had to rely on the right wing, who still have a Biblical view of slaying the Philistines. So in Gaza, the object was to destroy any Palestinian society. The universities and libraries were targeted so there was no culture, doctors were targeted so that4 there was no health care; Aid was targeted so that there was no food and then journalists were targeted for telling the tale. Finally the whole place was rendered uninhabitable- a demolition site. It seems that the object was to make the Palestinians either dead of fleeing into the Sinai. Egypt was aware that if they left Israel they would never be allowed to return, and that may still be the end point the Israelis seek. They now say that a 2 State solution is impossible- an object that they have had for years as they gradually took over the West Bank, while pretending it was the displaced Palestinian ‘terrorists’ that were stopping the negotiated settlement.
Everyone has been happy to demonise Hamas as a ‘terrorist organisation’. This means that it is justified never to talk to them, or indeed hear their point of view. One forgets that they were the legitimately- elected government of Gaza. A terrorist is someone who uses terror in civilian populations to further their political ends. It is almost always used by a weaker power against a stronger one. Naturally the stronger power would rather that the weaker fight in a conventional way- they would very quickly win. Israel tried to assassinate Hamas leaders in Qatar- surely an act of terror and complete break of any sort of international law.
Israel wants the Palestinains to have no one to represent them; homeless and starving, they are to be pathetically grateful that they are being allowed to live and not to have to go to any third country that can be bribed to take them. Will Gaza be a development site for some Trumpian Monaco with some welfare housing tacked on for the Gazans?
Jeff Halper in 2010 in his book, ‘An Israeli in Palestine’ stated that there was no possibility of a 2 state solution. There are now 750,000 Jewish settlers in the West bank, strategically positioned on the high grounds and linked by a road network. The only language many were taught is Hebrew, just to inhibit their ability to move or integrate. But if there cannot be 2 states, there has to be one with a reconciliation like that of South Africa after apartheid or Rwanda after their intertribal genocide. How that can possibly be achieved after what the Gazans have gone through is hard to imagine, and that attitude of many of the Jewish Israelis is strikingly similar to the attitudes to white South Africans in the apartheid era. (Yes, I have been to both).
Israel seems to have learned from the Nazis. They have pretended publicly for 70 years that there would be peace and a 2 state solution, while systematically undermining any possibility of it until now, when Netanyahu states it is impossible. They have taken the Palestinian land, while demonising them as terrorists who could not be negotiated with. Now, having destroyed their homes and their culture with the whole world screaming ‘genocide’, they will offer these starving people a ceasefire and survival entirely on the terms that they dictate, which seems to be ‘food and allowed to stay in Israel at present’. If Hamas leadership is totally defeated militarily and are being offered ‘safe passage’ to wherever, will they abdicate and take it?
Trump and Netanyahu call this a Peace Plan and Australia stands up and salutes. Probably the rest of the world sees it as it is. And what the Gazan survivors and children think and feel is currently irrelevant, but is not likely to remain so.
