Trump-Blair-Netanyahu's Scam Peace Deal for Palestine

 

By Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis)

TRUMP'S PERSONAL ANNEXATION OF GAZA, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF TONY BLAIR, IS THE US-ISRAEL CONDITION FOR PAUSING THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA. IT MUST BE REJECTED FORTHWITH!

The Trump-Netanyahu plan would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous for World Peace. To pause the genocide, Trump and Netanyahu demand the following:

1. Palestinians must agree to forfeit any political or human rights and to be annexed by… Donald J. Trump who will then appoint as Gaza’s Administrator Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister whose Iraq exploits left him open to credible accusations of war crimes.

2. The UN plays no role except the distribution of humanitarian aid.

3. Indefinite occupation of Gaza by the US and Israel in the form of a new occupying force involving US allies – a new occupying force which will be controlled at will by Washington and Tel Aviv for as long as they deem necessary.

4. Complete partition of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with Gaza separated legally from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Israel will be allowed to continue its ethnic cleansing unimpeded.

5. Release of the approximately 40 remaining Israeli hostages with the simultaneous release of 1,500 Palestinians, leaving approximately 13,500 Palestinians held hostage by the Israeli state in Israeli prisons

6. Palestinians to renounce their right to resisting the illegal occupation of their land.

Who actually runs this show?

Apart from the fact that such an agreement:

• nullifies the International Court of Justice (which in June 2024 ordered Israel to withdraw immediately and completely from East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza), 

• and abolishes both International Law and the United Nations’ obligation to enforce it,

• it also makes a mockery of the recent decisions of the governments of Britain, France, Canada and Australia to recognise the State of Palestine—a state that, if the Trump-Netanyahu Plan is implemented, will not be possible without the consent of the US and Israel.

Notwithstanding that the Trump-Netanyahu plan is welcomed by many Arab countries, including the Palestinian Authority, we should not lose sight of the fact that international public pressure on Israel is bearing fruit. Even this shameful plan would not have come about without this pressure. 

Now, therefore, is the time to increase this pressure even further, and not to be distracted by the Trump-Netanyahu demands, so that equal political and human rights can become a reality from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Otherwise, if the Trump-Netanyahu plan is implemented, it will return Humanity, officially, to the Law of the White Coloniser who chooses which land to occupy, which conquered peoples it will deploy as its agents, and which it will exterminate.

For this reason, DiEM25 calls on every party, every people, every human being to do whatever it takes to shoot down the arrogant, dangerous Trump-Netanyahu Plan – a plan that boils down to a last-ditch effort by those perpetrating, aiding and abetting our generation’s genocide to prevent Freedom and Equality from blossoming on the blood-soaked land of Palestine.

~  Yanis Varoufakis was the finance minister of Greece. Born in Athens in 1961, Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he became the finance minister of Greece. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement DiEM25 and, since 2019, has been leading its parliamentary party in Greece's Parliament alongside his role as a Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.