Donald Trump took to social media on Thursday, 30th July, to announce what he called a breakthrough: a phased agreement under the Board of Peace requiring the Palestinian Resistance to disarm and Israel to withdraw. The optics were of a president closing out a genocide he, and his predecessor, enabled for two years. The Palestinian Resistance agreed to the plan. Israel rejected it. Imagine if the Resistance had rejected the fifteen points by reasonably conditioning disarmament on an end to Israeli occupation. We don’t have to imagine Trump’s reaction. He’d have condemned them by nightfall and held them responsible for killing the peace plan. Israel gets a different standard. On Sunday, 9th August, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet: […]
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