Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine)
A deal to end the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza looks pretty close. This deal makes Netanyahu’s statement promising the Israelis total victory over Hamas empty and ridiculous. Hamas can rebuild its power while Netanyahu is under pressure from the majority of the Israelis who want an end to the war and the Western imperialists, in particular by Trump, to end the war before his inauguration as President.
His pressure on Israel is shocking for the Zionists, who expect him to join a war on Iran and to support the complete ethnic cleansing of the Gazans.
The electronic Intifada deals with the reasons for this agreement, which is Biden’s plan from last May.
“The two key factors are the strength of the resistance and Donald Trump, who returns to the White House as US president in less than a week…Contrary to conventional wisdom, Trump has been putting extraordinary pressure on Israel of a kind that is shocking Tel Aviv and that the Biden administration has refused to apply. After 15 months, Palestinian resistance fighters are still attacking Israeli occupation forces in every part of Gaza where they are present, including in the far northern areas that Israel entered and supposedly gained control of in the earliest weeks of its invasion…Netanyahu obeyed orders from Trump’s envoy and showed up at his office as commanded “for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal. The result of that meeting, according to Haaretz, is that “Witkoff has forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected over the past half year,” making a serious concession to a Hamas that has not budged from its position that the release of Israeli captives must be conditioned on the release of Palestinian prisoners, an end to the war and a complete – albeit phased – Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.” [i]
So, how do you explain Trump’s policy? Trump will be president of an empire, and the interest of American imperialism following the victory of the political revolution in Syria is to stabilize the region, contrary to Netanyahu’s plans for endless war that will destabilize the region.
The Idiots who fail to realize that a revolution took place in Syria and its effect is terrifying American imperialists should try to explain why Trump is applying such pressure on Israel to end the war.
This agreement can be another step in the process that leads to the end of Israel, which is now likely to be perceived by the Western imperialists as a heavy burden rather than a strategic asset for Western Imperialism.
Down with the Zionist monster!
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnote:
[i] Ali Abunimah, 15 January 2025 https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-trump-pressuring-israel-end-its-war-gaza