Trump and Gaza and How Little Changes

 I read Trump's proposal for Gaza, and nothing reeked as insidious. Other than one item.

Not everyone agrees with me on that: Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future (The Intercept)

While Trump’s plan offers the important possibility of a pause or end to Israel’s genocide, the worst of Trump’s plan for Gaza is embedded in its long-term vision. The plan amounts to a blueprint for external neocolonial domination over Gaza, under which Palestinians will have no formal ability to assert their rights or determine their future. Trump’s plan for Gaza denies Palestinians self-determination and says nothing of Israel’s ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

Under the plan, Trump would personally chair an Orwellian “Board of Peace” that would rule over Gaza, with former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair at his side. The Trump-run “board” would convene an unnamed “panel of experts” who would create a “Trump economic development plan” that would “rebuild and energize Gaza.” But dig a little deeper, and it is clear that Trump’s vision for Gaza is yet another page from the Trump family playbook for corruption and self-enrichment.

That "Board of Peace" set off the bells for me, too.

But we are not there yet - Israel and Hamas agree first phase of Gaza ceasefire deal (BBC). Yet, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna endorses Trump for Nobel Peace Prize after Gaza ceasefire (The Hill). Sorry, just getting to a ceasefire is not enough for a Nobel Peace Prize.

But for what has not changed:

Meanwhile, take a look at Radical Hope from Gaza: Aya Al-Hattab's Series in Solarpunk Magazine.

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