Palestine is now the conscience of the world. No deal will change that

What US President Donald Trump unveiled in Washington this week was not a peace plan, but a parody of one; a deal proclaimed as a breakthrough, yet negotiated between an American enabler and an Israeli perpetrator - with the very people whose fate it decides erased from the stage. 

Trump sat beaming beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, thanking him for “agreeing” to a plan he had written himself, while Palestinians were nowhere in the picture. No Hamas, no Palestinian Authority - not even a token presence to lend the charade a hint of credibility.

It continues the same colonial logic that birthed the Abraham Accords: strike deals over Palestine without Palestinians. Celebrate “peace” while ignoring occupation, blockade and ethnic cleansing. Parrot the language of reconciliation while systematically excluding the only people who have the right to speak for themselves.

This deal is not negotiation; it is imposition. It is surrender dressed up as statesmanship. 

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