Donald Trump can kiss goodbye to his coveted Nobel prize after his proposer for the award, the genocidal Binyamin Netanyahu, ensured his Gaza peace plan was designed to fail. In a stroke inspired more by witchcraft than state craft, the Israeli prime minister has duped the vainglorious leader of the free world into thinking his “eternal peace” document is not what it actually is – a licence to continue the genocide.
Practised ceasefire-buster Netanyahu appears to have inserted enough loopholes to allow Israel to break this one too, once the Israeli hostages are returned within the first 72 hours. The plan is a recipe for consolidating Israel’s power over Palestinians, making it nigh impossible for Hamas to accept. It evokes Michael Collins’s verdict on endorsing the Treaty as signing his own death warrant.
Reports of Trump and Netanyahu’s joint announcement in the White House have described the latter’s demeanour as “defeated”, but he was practically licking his lips when he vowed: “If
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