By Walt Zlotow
That was some ceasefire Trump negotiated with Israel on October 10. Since then Israel has killed over 460 Palestinians with bullets and bombs. Many more are likely dead from starvation and disease as Israel lets in only 300 trucks of food daily instead of the required and promised 600. “Ha ha… little nourishment for you starving Palestinians.”
Water, medicine, everything needed to sustain life is restricted to drive out the beleaguered living in makeshift tents. Why tents? Israel, with over 50,000 tons of Biden and Trump bombs pulverized over 80% of all Gaza buildings, including over 90% of all housing. Likely over 10,000 Gaza corpses are rotting under the 60 million tons of rubble including over 2.3 million tons of hazardous material. Ceasefire notwithstanding, Israel has knocked down or damaged over 2,500 post-ceasefire buildings.
In order to force Palestinians from Gaza, Israel has reopened the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt. But it’s Israel’s version of a reverse Roach Motel. Palestinians can check out… but they can never check back into their rightful homeland. Every Palestinian that leaves, along with every Palestinian shot, bombed or starved to death, is one less pesky Palestinian to get rid of in absorbing Gaza into Greater Israel.
Israel has exploited the ceasefire to occupy over 50% of Gaza territory, shooting any Palestinian who strays over or close to Israel’s yellow boundary lines.
Astonishingly, the UN Security Council’s November 17 Resolution 2803 (2025) certified Trump’s Board of Peace which effectively makes Trump Gaza’s ruler, totally excluding Palestinian involvement. In doing so it upends over 70 years of UN resolutions and requirements that Palestinians in Gaza have the right to live and govern their homeland free from subjugation; indeed annihilation.
Why did this Security Council resolution pass? Simple, Trump essentially blackmailed Council members that it was either Trump’s ceasefire and Board of Peace, excluding Palestinians, or he would greenlight continuing the horrific 2-year bombing obliteration of Gaza and its citizens till they were all dead and gone.
Israel, with US support, will never allow a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The horrific daily slaughter may be reduced to a trickle, but it will continue indefinitely till every Palestinian in Gaza is gone.
Trump’s ceasefire and Board of Peace have the additional benefit to both Israel and Trump administration of removing the daily ethnic cleansing of Gaza from mainstream media coverage. They have moved on to more dramatic foreign hotspots in Venezuela, Iran and Greenland as well as Trump’s ICE thugs murdering fellow citizens in Minneapolis
Israel and the Trump administration’s slow motion genocide of Palestinians in Gaza should be opposed by all decent, moral nations and persons as fervently as their opposition to the preceding two yearlong all out genocide. Trump’s ceasefire and Board of Peace has put lipstick on the pig of Israeli genocide, destroying Palestinians in Gaza.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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I’ll repeat what I have stated many times, Trump does what he does because the rest of the world lets him.
Netanyahu does what he does, because he has Trumps support, to think Israel is a state born of terrorism!!!
Time for Australian politicians to reject the ZIONazi presence in Australia. ZIONazism is NOT Judaism, but rather a 19th century colonist settler theology to cure a centuries long persecution across most European national borders since authorised by an earlier Papacy.
The TACO Trumpery Board of Peace is a land-grab resulting in the same displacement & dispossession encouraged by the international carpet-baggers to re-build the GAZA Gold Coast for foreign investor benefit.
Now watch as the next Trump Hotel is built on prime sea-front real estate stolen from Indigenous Palestinian land-owners free, gratis and for nothing ….. just like the residential property theft by ”Israeli settlers”, practiced with impunity in the West Bank since the 1948 Nakba.
You did not see this obvious conclusion during the Hannibal Directive?? Think ….. who benefits from the demolition of all structural housing, certainly NOT the Indigenous Palestinian Land-holders.
ZIONazis are an evil abomination.
Regardless of the origin of Zionism and those who enabled the formation of Israel on Palestinian occupied land, the question today specifically for Australian federal politicians is: by what moral standards do you justify the continued diplomatic recognition of the current government of Israel, a government that supports the continued blatant murder of starving, unarmed, non-combatant civilians? Peaceful Australian citizens, including peaceful Australian citizens of Jewish faith have the right to ask this question of our elected government. And we have the right to expect an explicit answer to this question.
Misses the other key player in addition to Trump and Netanyahu, the other part of the three amigos, Putin?
Locally media have been suggesting Albanese should or could follow and join, then become angry when he does not respond? Suggests like most western normie nations, avoid like the plague…..