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| I wish PEACE ✌️ 🕊️ Were REAL but there is a Snake 🐍 in the whole Process. |
Miracles do happen, but for American President Donald J Trump paying off Bibi Natanyahu to get a cease -fire after two years of dropping bombs on buildings , killing civilians, and beyond the scope of " fighting Hamas" . There seems to be hope for a " ceasefire". A new deal is on the table. Not a ceasefire, but maybe the start of one—and at this point, it’s hard to refuse. The Palestinian side has already signaled yes. The U.S. is pushing. Even Israel’s own murderous security chiefs are begging their war criminal (take it with the Hague) Netanyahu to pause. But let me be clear: I don’t trust Israel or its so-called deals—they’ve broken every promise before in two days 300 have already been killed. Gaza is not just tired—it is starving, displaced, and bombarded without end. Any step, however flawed, could be the fragile lifeline the survivors need to keep breathing. FOR TRUMP it's BIBLICAL. [ TRUMP wants to be seen as the peace maker, prophet sent by God as most Christian Evangelicals believe.] Curious about this one... my suspicion is it would only win over the more Trumpian types if anything, but I do wonder if something like this would affect bigger picture approval ratings or if Americans see what's going on in this country and it doesn't move the needle much if at all... Also just to be clear I do hope this deal actually holds and the violence in the middle east can end, but I was wondering how this plays into stuff like our politics here. Now if the democrats messaging as well as their actual stance on the issue still has to change. AIPAC endorsements or general handwashing of this genocide could become the kiss of death for people in primaries. Whatever Netanyahu’s true reason may be, perhaps the bottom line remains: this summit, coordinated by Donald Trump with world leaders, is a way of signaling to Israel that Gaza is no longer under its sole authority. Maybe it’s just the cynic in me, but Netanyahu is probably more concerned with making deals at home to keep himself out of prison than he is in shaking hands with a few leaders. The war is over – as Trump keeps saying – and now others will take charge. On the other hand Americans have such Goldfish brains that they’ll just forget it . Is it time to accept that peace - real peace - is never going to happen with Israel-Palestine? In Gaza and the West Bank there are also celebrations, as up to 2,000 Palestinian detainees start to be released – though there is distress, too, due to uncertainty about who is being freed and where they will be sent. In northern Gaza, people can finally return to dig through rubble for the remains of an estimated 10,000 missing people. I know it's a central tenet of enlightened western thinking that anything can be solved with diplomacy, understanding each other and working out a mutually beneficial agreement. Within just a few hours of Israel receiving its captives the IDF has killed a Gazan man in Khan Younis and there is footage of three tanks firing on children. Imagine the hysteria if just one Israeli had been killed this afternoon. And yet western media is silent on Israel breaking the ceasefire in less than a day.But it's been ~90 years. In comparison to other long-running conflicts Israel/Palestine has had an unparalled amount of attention and diplomatic effort towards a solution, yet none has been made to work. Because the fundamental wishes of the two groups involved are incompatible; the problem is intractable. That saying about the definition of insanity would seem to apply.It would be interesting if pro-Palestinian voters just fall in line now even though the Democrats (especially Biden) did nothing to alleviate the situation in 2023/2024 and paid dearly for it. The reality is that Israel basically cashed out all the good will they had or at least the lack of knowledge/opinion that people have with the issue. I don’t know if Israel could even reclaim like 30% of the goodwill they once had. The fight for the hostages and the calamity in Gaza are two sides of the war’s coin. That will remain the case in the days to come. But as time goes on, more and more focus will probably shift to Gaza, its rehabilitation, and the truth that lies beneath all the rubble.
US TROOPS in Israel and Gaza.
The best assumption to make is that Gaza is riddled with unexploded Israeli ordnance, IED's and booby traps set by Hamas. Not to mention building shells that can and will collapse at any moment. The idea that any nation will send its "peace keeping troops" into that hellhole is whimsical. So is any thought of rebuilding until such clearance is achieved. Lots of joyous photos of Israeli’s celebrating. Cut to, one or two photos of wafer thin Palestinians searching through the rubble for their tens of thousands of dead loved ones. No houses, no hospitals or schools, no running water, no power. And yet there are still people, above and below the line, asking why aren’t they more grateful. This was a new shiny thing for Trump, and an albatross around the neck of Netanyahu, who pawned his troubles off on the international community. Hamas, which was given an ultimatum to accept the deal or not, is absolutely not disarming and are retrenching. Israel, having completely destabilized Gaza will now be able to point the finger at others if the situation sours, while promising to do absolutely nothing to materially change the situation. As usual-the Palestinians are treated as completely undeserving of any input into their disposition. Hard to see how this changes anything in the long term. I give it 2 years before everyone gets bored and tired of trying to convince the Palestinians to accept peace in the absence of a two state solution while Israel continues their illegal land grab in the West Bank, and squeezes Gaza as they have done for a decade.
Who WILL REBUILD GAZA?
And who will be responsible for rebuilding Gaza? THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS? It is estimated that it will take $53 billion to rebuild Gaza. Israel, Europe, and the United States don't seem to be interested in footing this bill. I also have not seen any of the Arab states agreeing to commit billions of dollars to rebuild Gaza, and this assumes the money doesn't get stolen. It seems like Egypt should have found a way to cut the cost in half. So the question is who will pay to rebuild Gaza. In the few minutes I could bear watching Trump in the Knesset - e.g. stressing about the fact that Witkoff is a real estate trader who "didn’t know too much about politics, wasn’t that interested" - I actually heard him boast about all the US weaponry that has made Israel strong and that Israel has "used very effectively", i.e. laying waste to Gaza. Trump cannot be trusted — his “plans” for Gaza are nothing but schemes for displacement and occupation. He talks about “peace” while plotting to uproot its people and hand their land to Israel for his own gain. He’s back at the same nonsense today . Despite all the footage we've seen over the past two years, I was shocked to see this BBC Verify feature about wanton destruction that has nothing to do with eliminating Hamas. Talking of footage ... But as the TV presenters and panelists persisted with the good news theme, you could not help but notice the other footage. It's a shame that Israeli TV has given its audience a minimum of exposure to the murderous and criminal horrors its government and armed forces have unleashed on Gaza. A majority of Israelis say that they do not trust the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a poll aired Friday on Channel 12, with most of the public also opposed to policy on the hostages and disapproving of the budget passed this week. So now when the war is over and Hamas will be replaced with peaceful civilian government, will Israel join other countries in Gaza reconstruction? I mean, since Israel is the one who destroyed 83 percent of Gaza infrastructure. Some deliberate some by accident ("oopsie") Pro-Israeli side often makes comparison with other wars to justify destruction and killings, like American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or Russian in Ukraine. But those countries helped rebuild destroyed afterwards- Americans helped Iraq and Afghanistan and even Russia rebuilt cities like Mariupol for example. They say their fight was against Hamas, they want also to free Gazans from Hamas so I guess they will be happy to participate and share the financial burden. If Israels desire is to create lasting peace and a connection with the Palestinian people that would help to mitigate extremist Islamic influence, then yes. Israel should be generous to the people of Gaza dispite the long history of hatred and Islamist violence. Israel has no obligation to fund the reconstruction, but if they wish for a better relationship, that is exactly what they should do. Um Israel didn’t pull out of Gaza? They’ve literally been killing them as recently as 2022. Israel’s the bigger culprit here. They occupied Gaza until 2005, then locked it down with a blockade that’s kept most people on aid. Literally seen a vid of IDF using Palestinians as human shields couples days ago amongst their many war crimes. as well they’ve been caught dressing detainees in uniforms for tunnel sweeps which was banned by their own courts in 2005 yet they keep doing it. Hamas sucks but Israel’s control and these tactics are the root of the misery. Japan got aid to rebuild, Gaza gets rubble and restrictions.
AMERICAN TAXPAYERS WILL PAY FOR GAZA REBUILD. HERE IS WHY.
The United States, under the Biden and Trump administrations, has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the war on Gaza two years ago, that being said... If you look at how Hamas came to power in the first place there were a very specific set of circumstances and contributing factors that no longer exist. A sweeping plan to reconstruct Gaza, which has been shared with Trump administration officials, features the names and logos of more than two dozen companies like In the presentation, logos from Tesla, Amazon Web Services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) appear alongside bullet points about the benefit "private industry investment” may have in Gaza in terms of building out "key infrastructure" like data centers and "gigafactories." On one slide, the logos of several companies, including Ikea, appear alongside descriptions of large-scale "infrastructure rebuild" and "peacekeeping (optional)" in Gaza. They represented a populist approach to solving an existential threat which was a perception of the failure of the Oslo accords, which won many Palestinians over (as populist candidates generally tend to do).The Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs—which has long been the premier source for statistics on the human and economic costs of ongoing U.S.-led post-9/11 wars and militarism in the Middle East and beyond—called the $22.76 billion estimate “conservative.” “This figure includes the $17.9 billion the U.S. government has approved in security assistance for Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere since Oct. 7—substantially more than in any other year since the U.S. began granting military aid to Israel in 1959,” report authors Linda Bilmes, William Hartung and Stephen Semler wrote. Yet the report describes how this is only a partial amount of the U.S. financial support provided during this war. In addition to the repeated multibillion-dollar rounds of military aid to Israel, related U.S. operations in the region, particularly bombing and shipping defense in and near Yemen—where Houthi rebels have attacked maritime commerce and launched missiles at Israel—have cost over $2 billion since October 2023. In the last two years, the U.S. sent nearly 18 billion dollars to Israel for its war on Gaza. Most of that (12 billion) came from Trump in 2025. That money didn’t go to rebuild roads in Kentucky or reopen hospitals in Texas. It didn’t help people struggling with rent or medical bills. It paid for bombs. It paid for missiles that killed thousands of kids. That is not a guess. That is confirmed. And while all that money flew overseas, Trump added over 8 TRILLION DOLLARS to the national debt. This war was part of the tab. They called it support for an ally. But no one asked us. Israel is armed to the teeth. There was no threat to us. No debate. Trump rushed the money. Biden followed with another six billion. Both parties signed off like it was nothing. When it was Ukraine, at least people talked about it. With Israel, silence. This is not America First. It is not putting the country or its people first. It is sending billions to someone else’s war while our own people are being left behind. And everyone should be asking why. “It has been difficult for the U.S. public, journalists, and members of Congress to get an accurate understanding of the amount of military equipment and financial assistance that the U.S. government has provided to Israel’s military during the past year of war,” the report states. “There is likewise little U.S. public awareness of the costs of the United States military’s own related operations in the region, particularly in and around Yemen.” This war however has proven that they are not the way... we are now seeing huge anti Hamas protests in Gaza. People are fed up with the violence. There is a real opportunity for a more moderate government system to rise from the ashes. So long as Israel and the United States don't try and annex Gaza and instead hand it over to a coalition of third-party states or the UN establish an interim government and gradually facilitate a transition to a democratically elected government...There is a chance for something good to come.
