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..but whether it will bring peace is another matter altogether. It’s very difficult to take anything that Trump says seriously these days – let alone a 20-point plan to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip that specifically rules out any role for the resistance movement that has governed the beleaguered Palestinian enclave since 2007.
You would have thought that any proposal that envisages a new international administration for the Palestinian enclave called the “Board of Peace” led by Trump himself with Tony Blair as The Donald’s chief gofer would be laughed out of court.
Far from it. The oil princes of Arabia and the other craven Arab politicians long in America’s pay love it. It gives them another excuse to do nothing, Likewise the Western politicians in Britain and the European Union who talk about Palestinian rights but, at the end of the day, will routinely do what they’re told to do in Washington.
To be fair the Trump plan does call for an end to the fighting, a prisoner exchange and a staged withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. It even makes a nod towards eventual Palestinian independence. But few, if any, Arabs seriously believe that the Israelis will honour what they signed up to in the White House. Trump, of course, could force the Israelis to obey him. The question is does he want to...
You would have thought that any proposal that envisages a new international administration for the Palestinian enclave called the “Board of Peace” led by Trump himself with Tony Blair as The Donald’s chief gofer would be laughed out of court.
Far from it. The oil princes of Arabia and the other craven Arab politicians long in America’s pay love it. It gives them another excuse to do nothing, Likewise the Western politicians in Britain and the European Union who talk about Palestinian rights but, at the end of the day, will routinely do what they’re told to do in Washington.
To be fair the Trump plan does call for an end to the fighting, a prisoner exchange and a staged withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. It even makes a nod towards eventual Palestinian independence. But few, if any, Arabs seriously believe that the Israelis will honour what they signed up to in the White House. Trump, of course, could force the Israelis to obey him. The question is does he want to...
Meanwhile…
...Israel has hijacked the international peace convoy sailing to Gaza to deliver aid and detained the civilian activists on board. The commandeering of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats shows the contempt Israel has for the Palestinians and the international norms that the West pretends to uphold in their “rules-based order”.The civilians on board the flotilla were attempting to deliver aid to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, to break Israel's immoral and illegal siege.
Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip is a component of its genocide, which has killed many tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and caused the complete devastation of civilian infrastructure and an intentionally engineered famine.
Earlier this month, the UN Commission of Inquiry concluded what we already know –that Israel is inflicting a genocide on the Palestinian people. The report outlined that signatories of the Genocide Convention, including Britain, have an obligation to prevent further acts of genocide and punish those responsible, including by ending the arms trade with Israel.
Four of the boats in the fleet were British-flagged. The Starmer government has a legal duty to defend these vessels and the civilians on board, who have been subject to an attack clearly breaching international humanitarian law. The British government must intervene to demand the immediate release of those detained, and urgently address the issues to which the flotilla was responding to by ending all arms trade and military collaboration with Israel.
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