As we write, Trump ("The Art of the Deal") has announced a new "deal" for Gaza. Details remain unclear, but they have not yet provided aid for the starving in Gaza or an end to Israel's deadly bombing campaign. The genocide is not over.
Even the N.Y. Times refers to it as an "elusive" deal on Gaza hostages, cautiously refraining from claiming it will lead to a permanent ceasefire and reconstruction of the devastated land and lives.
We do know that Egypt refused Trump's (and the West's) pressure to accept the forced displacement of Palestinians. We know that "Phase 1" will involve a hostage/prisoner exchange, the bombing should stop, and aid should "surge" into the region. But where is the permanent ceasefire? We know what happened to "Phase 2" of the previous accords--it never happened.
Plans to administer Gaza with Palestinian technocrats, disarm the resistance, and allow Israel to intervene at will? Plans to prevent Palestinian self-determination, to normalize Israeli apartheid across the region, to stymie the rebuilding of Gaza by Palestinians for Palestinians--let's not forget this is a plan that originated with Trump, champion of the "Gaza Riviera."
Trump, Netanyahu, Tony Blair, and the rest of the engineers of this war have no right to decide the future of Gaza. That right belongs to the people of Palestine.
Trump and his housebroken mass media would like us to believe that now we can relax--that the Gaza crisis is over. Nothing could be further from the truth. We will stay mobilized as long as the genocide continues unabated and until the people of Gaza have gained their self-determination.
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