John,
In the same week that the Israeli military abducted hundreds of international activists and blocked dozens of ships with humanitarian aid from reaching starving Palestinians, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington, DC, to unveil their 20-point so-called “peace” plan for Gaza.
This proposal to supposedly end the war is a rubber stamp for Israel’s agenda and a blueprint for ongoing occupation: it’s riddled with loopholes that would ultimately let the Israeli military continue to occupy Gaza and resume its genocide.
Netanyahu agrees with the framework — after all, one of his top advisors helped draft it with the Trump administration, and with zero input from the Palestinian people.
But the Israeli Prime Minister also warned that if Hamas doesn’t agree to this plan, “then Israel will finish the job by itself.” Speaking like a mob boss, he went on to say, “This can be done the easy way or it can be done the hard way, but it will be done.”
Naturally, Trump said, “I would let [Israel] go and do what they have to do,” as if he hasn’t already handed Israel billions of dollars worth of weapons to bomb Gaza and displace millions of Palestinians while blocking aid from reaching those in need. Now, he’s issued a threatening ultimatum via social media:
As Justice Democrat and Palestinian American Rep. Rashida Tlaib expressed, these war criminals should not get to decide the future of Gaza and the Palestinian people.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats