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Related: About this forumDiana Buttu: Trump's Gaza Plan Is "Repackaging of Genocide"
After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel's war on Gaza, free the remaining Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power. Netanyahu expressed support for the deal, but he has already backed away from key elements, including a call for Israel to eventually pull its troops out of Gaza. Hamas has not responded yet to the deal. As part of his 20-point peace plan, Trump announced the establishment of an international transitional governing body called the "Board of Peace," which Trump would head.
Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says the deal is "certainly not a plan that is going to end the genocide. What they're simply attempting to do is repackage it." Buttu also notes that while Trump met with Netanyahu before announcing the plan, Palestinians were not consulted. Buttu asks, "Why is it that Palestinians have been forced to negotiate an end to their genocide?"
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Diana Buttu: Trump's Gaza Plan Is "Repackaging of Genocide" (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
17 hrs ago
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gfarber
(107 posts)1. Peace Board
Trump stood with a grin, bold and breezy,
Called it peace though the facts were still queasy.
With no deal in sight,
He gave Bibi the right
To keep bombing 'til Hamas got appeasy.
Trump crowed, Its eternal, this peace!
While the bombs in Gaza wont cease.
No deal, just a show,
With a wink and a blow
He greenlit the war with a fleece.
He declared himself Chair, full of flair,
Of a peace board that isnt quite there.
With no terms agreed,
Just self-serving screed
It was theater, thin as his hair.
Kushner and Blair took a stab,
At a plan that no one would grab.
With no sides on board,
It was praised and ignored
Just a ghostwritten global rehab.
Blair and young Jared conspired,
To draft peace no one desired.
With ink still wet,
And no real threat
Except more bombs when it backfired.
With Kushner and Blair at the helm,
Trump proclaimed peace for the realm.
Though no side had signed,
He still beamed and opined
While chaos reigned over the film.
They cooked up a deal with no teeth,
Then Trump crowned it Peace! with a wreath.
While Blair grinned in back,
And Jared kept track
Of the optics, not death on the heath.
I sat through the spin and the glare,
As Trump praised great peace from thin air.
No questions allowed,
Just back-pats and proud
I escaped with my soul worse for wear.
I endured all the boasting and fluff,
While they peddled transparent bluff.
No deal, just a show,
With no facts to bestow
I bailed when Board Peace was enough.
AloeVera
(3,776 posts)2. Well-done!
