In late November, the United Nations Security Council endorsed the “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” which includes President Trump’s 20-point framework.
Washington and Jerusalem celebrated it as a breakthrough. In reality, it represents one of the most dangerous recent efforts to make international law irrelevant, installing a neo-colonial trusteeship run by those who have armed, funded and politically shielded Israel for decades.
Despite media hype, the October “ceasefire” was never a true ceasefire at all. Israel has since bombed homes and schools,
killing more than 300 Palestinians, injuring hundreds more and demolishing civilian infrastructure. It is still
blocking desperately needed humanitarian aid.
For decades, diplomatic initiatives have failed because they refuse to acknowledge the root cause of the problem in the region.
Israel’s ongoing dispossession, fragmentation and military control imposed on Palestinians — a system of apartheid — denies Palestinians their inherent rights to freedom and self-determination. The Trump plan doubles down on this approach.
Trump’s
plan demands full Palestinian demilitarization while imposing hardly any limitations on Israeli military power.
This is the same power that has dropped an estimated
100,000 tons of explosives on a besieged Gaza, destroyed roughly
80 percent of its civilian infrastructure and killed or seriously injured
10 percent of the population in what human rights organizations and genocide scholars
say amounts to genocide.