Trump Turns Gaza Into A ‘Peace’ Protectorate Under US Control

 

 

 

Donald Trump’s new Gaza “peace plan” isn’t a peace plan at all — it’s a colonial protection racket draped in diplomatic language, rubber-stamped by a UN Security Council too timid to object and too compromised to pretend otherwise. After two years of devastation in Gaza, Washington has now handed Trump what amounts to a proconsul’s mandate: the power to declare Gaza’s fate with a flick of the imperial thumb.

 

The arrangement is grotesquely simple. The US and Israel will jointly govern the ruins for at least two years — and likely much longer — through a hand-picked “Board of Peace” populated by “respected leaders” (translation: compliant Western statesmen and Washington’s favourite ex-PMs). Tony Blair, ever eager to reprise his Iraq-era role as moral alibi, is already being floated as Trump’s willing sidekick.

 

On the ground, the deal locks in Israel’s effective partition of Gaza. Over half the territory becomes a depopulated “Green Zone” under Israeli occupation, while Palestinians trapped in the “Red Zone” remain exposed to bombardment, famine, and the elements. Humanitarian supplies are choked off. Reconstruction isn’t a priority — it’s leverage.

 

International law? Buried. The ICJ, ICC and UN experts who dared to protest have been sidelined, smeared, even sanctioned by the US. Germany and France — once champions of rules-based order — now openly flout it, backing a system that renders their recent “recognition” of Palestine meaningless.

 

The so-called International Stabilisation Force is a fiction. No Western state will risk troops in Gaza. No Arab state wants to be seen disarming Hamas on Israel’s behalf. And Israel itself gets to decide when — or if — it ever leaves.

 

This isn’t peace. It’s occupation with better branding — and Trump is selling it as salvation while Gaza’s future is carved up behind closed doors.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Trump’s Gaza “peace” mandate creates a US-Israeli protectorate in all but name.
• Gaza remains effectively partitioned, bombarded, and starved under the deal.
• The plan buries international law and turns the UN into a rubber stamp.

 

 

adapted from an opinion piece by Jonathan Cook

Source MIDDLE EAST EYE

 

Yeah, the Red Sea Riviera. Bunch of brownskins to be deported first, eh.