I feel like we are living in a dystopian universe. I’m not sure if you saw what happened: the UN Security Council passed a US resolution on Gaza, creating a Trump-chaired “board” to govern over Gaza.
https://youtube.com/shorts/jaC3FJbJ8fI?si=YFihq4-aT-acj7mY
Let’s back up: the UN Security Council is supposedly in charge of peace and security, but as you can see with over two years of genocide in Gaza by Israel, it’s utterly incapable of doing so. Why? Because five countries have a veto power, which is insane.
Now, what is happening? It’s all part of Trump’s disastrous plan, which is not a peace one at all, but a new colonial plan that would effectively replace Israeli occupation with US occupation, owned by trump. This peace plan has been rejected by international law experts, UN experts, human rights defenders, and most importantly Palestinian civil society over and over again.
- This is obviously insane in and out of itself, but made worse when you consider:
the US is complicit and to blame for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians: it has provided the genocidal regime with weapons, political cover, and more. - For a change, the plan does not even look at Israel as the state responsible for the months of genocide and years of apartheid and occupation.
- Israeli withdrawal is tied to vague “milestones” that keep control in Israel’s hands, again outside any meaningful UN authority.
The fact that countries agreed to this, while Israeli settlers torch West Bank villages, the genocides continues and criminals are in charge of colonising again Palestine just shows how dead the dream of countries coming together for peace and security is.
What needs to happen is an end to the genocide, an arms embargo on Israel and sanctions to ensure it happens, the end of apartheid and occupation, reparations, and for Palestinians to be guaranteed their right of self determination, not imposed a board by a genocide lover.
Let’s say it clearly: only Palestinians can decide on the future of Palestine.