cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40549790
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 19, 2025DOHA, QATAR—Since President Donald Trump falsely proclaimed the dawn of a new era of peace and harmony in the Middle East in early October, Palestinians in Gaza have lived in an Israeli-imposed purgatory. The scorched-earth terror bombings and full-spectrum blockade on any life essentials entering Gaza have been replaced by sporadic, though daily, Israeli strikes and a trickle of food and medicine deliveries in quantities far below the terms agreed to in the October 10 “peace” deal. What is happening in Gaza is not a ceasefire, but a lower intensity, slower-paced killing operation by an Israeli regime daring Palestinians to fight back.
As the White House struggles to convince even a single nation to deploy forces in Gaza on a mission to disarm the Palestinian resistance, Hamas negotiators say there has been no formal communication from the U.S. on how it intends to proceed on any of the terms laid out in Trump’s sweeping plan.
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youare_acooldude@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 269d
Good.
tehsillz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d
Hmm, I'm starting to think that peace thing was just a lie.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 270d
People fundamentally misunderstand what the nature of Trump's peace agreement is about. This is not a deal among equals. Israel is the decisive victor in this war, and so they're going to get just about everything they want.
This deal was designed to keep Israel in a dominant position. It incentivized Hamas to return the living Israeli hostages by promising their fighters amnesty. It allows Israel to maintain its bombing campaign by asking Hamas to return the corpses of the dead hostages in a short timeframe... which they can't do since they don't have all the corpses, thus failing to keep their end (read: the go to justification). It also lets an international coalition do the dirty work of removing Hamas, demilitarizing Gaza, rebuilding the strip, quelling insurgencies, and putting in place a cooperative "reformed" PA (read: Israel friendly) by promising not to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians... thus achieving Israel's main objectives of the war while also restoring its image by framing the whole thing as the world coming together to work with Israel to help rebuild a free Gaza.
This is why this deal is going to continue pushing forward no matter what Hamas says or does. What they do doesn't mean anything anymore because they're no longer a part of the equation. The deal is de facto between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries. With the support of Arab countries as well as the US, the PA, UK, and EU, Gaza is going to be rebuilt in Israel's image. That's the reality.