The envisaged five stages of Israel’s next colonial phase

Nickolay Mladenov, the former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, now the Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza, is misrepresenting Gaza to the full capability of Western complicity with colonialism.  Over the span of eight months, the Board of Peace is supposed to implement the five stages of disarmament, subject to agreement by Israel and Hamas. Israel has nothing to lose whether the agreement goes through or not. For Palestinians, however, the picture is bleak either way, and no amount of double speak by Mladenov can disguise the fact that disarmament and reconstruction facilitate Israel’s control over Gaza through the Board of Peace. Stopping military operations and implementing humanitarian protocols constitutes the first stage of disarmament. […]