c/news · by AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 182d

The U.S. occupation of Gaza has begun

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-u-s-occupation-of-gaza-has-begun/

This week, Drop Site News revealed a draft resolution from Trump’s newly christened “Board of Peace.” The resolution outlines what is, in essence, Phase Two of Trump’s unrealistic peace plan that ushered in a new phase of horror in Gaza under the guise of a ceasefire.

The actions outlined in the resolution ignore realities on the ground and paint a very grim picture of what the United States is planning for Gaza. Far from abandoning the ludicrous and offensive imagery Trump shared in that AI video from last year of himself and Elon Musk on a beach in an unrecognizable Gaza, this resolution is the battle plan to turn Gaza into the playground for the wealthy that Jared Kushner presented to the World Economic Forum at Davos last week.

It’s a Gaza where the only Palestinians remaining are those chosen to be the servants in the new regime.

It’s a Gaza under permanent American occupation.

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AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 182d (3 replies)

Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East

Excerpted from "Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East":

The record of U.S. policy from 1945 to 1949 challenges fundamental assumptions about U.S. understanding and involvement in the struggle over Palestine that continue to dominate mainstream interpretations of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Coming to grips with the U.S. record and its frequently mythified depiction of the struggle over Palestine is critical. Those engaged in the creation of the Common Archive, a project of Zochrot, the Israeli NGO, in which Israelis and Palestinians have joined to reconstruct the history of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israel in 1948, clearly understand the importance of this record. Palestinian historians have long written about this history, and Israel’s “New Historians” have confirmed it in their challenge to the dominant Israeli narrative of the war of 1948.

The Middle East in 2014 is not a mirror image of what it was in 1948, when the struggle over Palestine was at its height. "In the immediate postwar years, the United States defined its policy in the Near and Middle East in terms of assuring unimpeded access and control by U.S. oil companies of its great material prize, petroleum.

It almost seems like if the history that's usually just glossed over (if it's mentioned at all in the U.S.) included the reality of the history behind most U.S. foreign policy since WWII, there would be way less support for propaganda that somehow always justifies the invasion of other countries, and coincidentally works out to make the wealthiest people at the top even more wealthy. Always at the expense of freedom and liberty for the little people below who made the mistake of existing on top of the oil (or whatever natural resources happen to be the oil of the future) those at the top wanted to exploit.

evenglow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 182d (2 replies)

Remember when they found new fossil fuel reserves off the coast of Gaza? Trump does.

AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 182d (1 reply)

Fuck, I didn't even know about that, but definitely on point for these evil assholes. Exploit, exploit, exploit, if anybody gets in your way or calls you out on what you're doing, then they're the terrorist.

Recognised Palestinian state could develop disputed gas resources, expert says

Michael Barron, the author of a new book on Palestine’s untapped gas reserves, has suggested the field could generate $4bn (£3bn) in revenue at current prices and it is reasonable that the PA could receive $100m a year over 15 years.

He said the revenues “would not turn the Palestinians into the next Qataris or Singaporeans, but it would be their own revenue and not aid, on which the Palestinian economy remains dependent”.

So of course we can't let that happen. Fucking ridiculous how these bullshit narrative control strategies meant to justify what they're doing and get the public on their side are so similar no matter where in the globe there are resources or people to exploit.

"Are you still complaining about us exploiting you? Look could things have been done differently? Who's to say? Pobody's nerfect, but you have to move on. Stop living in the past and being so reliant on everyone else. Focus on the future and pull yourself up by your bootstraps! .... Oh shit, where did you get those bootstraps? Gimme, gimme, gimme!"

evenglow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 179d

Now go look up when they found new fossil fuel reserves off the coast of Ukraine.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 182d (7 replies)

gEnOsiDe jOe!

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 182d (6 replies)

? thats still a correct statement.

fort_burp@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 182d (5 replies)

Joe Biden would have never supported a genocied.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 182d (4 replies)

..he absolutely did, as a matter of public record. Orangeboi just happens to be even worse. Which is all anyone was trying to say with regard to Harris.

fort_burp@feddit.nl · -2 pts · 181d (3 replies)

Why, did Orangeboi send more money and munitions than Biden or something?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 181d (2 replies)

Ok, tankie.

fort_burp@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 181d (1 reply)

Nice, I'll add that to the list. Being anti-genocide makes you

Antisemitic
A tankie

(not sure you guys know what either of those mean anymore tbh the way you apply it to everything lol)

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 180d

No I’m just calling you out for being reductively myopic for thinking it would have been less possible to publicly pressure Harris into changing her policy vis a vis Israel than orangeboi. Because shining you can publicly pressure orangeboi into anything if you’re not bribing the absolute fuck out of him is the height of idiocy. I hate that Harris was the candidate too, but there was a hope of actually forcing her to change. There is zero chance of that happening with the current regime.

And for the record, I absolutely agree that Biden was an absolute travesty for myriad reasons, and it’s a travesty that he was anointed as the DNC candidate in 2020 - but he was still better than orangeboi in pretty much all respects.