Anthony McIntyre ☠ Since the ostensible Trump-arranged ceasefire in Gaza the genocidaires of Israel have killed over 460 Palestinians, 100 of whom were children.
In addition to the mass murder, the New York Times has found that Israel has destroyed 2,500 buildings.
Through their penchant for infanticide - which included eight babies frozen to death over the bitter Gazan winter - the Israelis continue to send a message to Gazans from Tel Aviv that their future is being methodically killed off. This is the backdrop to Jonathan Cook's observation that Trump's new Peace Board is an Orwellian sales pitch. It does not do what it says on the tin, the label a mere mask for tarting up as "peace" the final eradication of Palestinian life in Gaza.
'Ralph Wilde, is the author of International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away. He is suitably qualified to advise on the legality or otherwise of trusteeships. He was one of a group of UK based international lawyers who wrote to then British Prime Minister Tony Blair warning that the Iraq war would be illegal. Last October he stated that the Peace Board, where Blair will play a leading role, would also be illegal.
None of this seems to matter to all those agencies and states that have opted to support the Peace Board. Disgracefully but not surprisingly Egypt and Qatar, despite being excluded from a mediating role - later relented on in the case of Qatar - did not withdraw from the group of eight regional states that signed a declaration welcoming the Peace Board when it was first suggested in late 2025. Moreover, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia and Pakistan never consulted with the Palestinians before agreeing to the imperialist initiative.
The Palestinian Authority - unfailingly aware of just how little Israel will permit it to do - has been rewarded with nothing less than contempt. Netanyahu demanded that it drop its cases against Israel in the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.
Ominously Cook asserts:
Some of us have long warned that Israel and the US view the Palestinians as lab rats, both for testing weapons and surveillance technologies and for changing the norms developed after the Second World War to safeguard against the return of fascist, militaristic and expansionist ideologies.
One diplomat succinctly explained the Peace Board: "It's a 'Trump United Nations' that ignores the fundamentals of the UN charter." As Cook asserts, 'For decades, Israel has been dreaming of this moment: of taking a wrecking ball to the UN and its legal and humanitarian institutions.'
No wonder Netanyahu had a big smile on his face. And no wonder he told Israeli television viewers: Who would have believed this?
Well, everybody following events in both Gaza and the international arena would have believed it. But only those genuine in their opposition to what they see with their own eyes will stand up to it.
Prescient article about the Peace Board. I too suspect it's designed to finish what the war started. Ethnic cleansing.
ReplyDeleteIf Trump is enthusiastic about chasing members of minorities out of the U.S.A. including those who are U.S. citizens what do you think he plans for the Palestinians?