Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Not Trusting Israel In Any Peace Deal

Donald Trump has claimed that Israel is ready to agree to a peace deal with Hamas as he seeks to broker a ceasefire to the war in Gaza that has claimed almost 60,000 lives, 600 killed by Israeli troops over the last few weeks when they arrived to collect food at aid stations.
The details are sketchy but we know Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire and immediately we must ask if Israel is keen on the deal, then it must be seen as overly favourable to them.
Unfortunately we have been here before, it was only a few months ago that Israel reneged on the last ceasefire and began attacking Palestine again so hard to think that this will be any different especially as it is only a 60 day pause to the genocide Israel has been conducting.
A temporary ceasefire rather than a permanent one is due to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knowing that if he agreed to a permanent ceasefire, his Government full of warmongering right wingers hell bent on continuing the war and eliminating the Palestinians would collapse and bring forward his many court cases alleging fraud and corruption which carries a ten year prison sentence.
With the prospect of jail, Netanyahu is in no rush to permanently end the war and a temporary ceasefire, which means he could restart it any time on any of the trumped up charges he used last time, could see a return to the slaughter.
I am no friend of Hamas but i would say to them if a murdering maniac is keen to pause the war, and if Donald Trump is behind it who we saw was only willing to throw Ukraine under the bus to satisfy Russia and end that war, then i would proceed with extreme care because if it is satisfactory to Israel, it will certainly not be for the people of Palestine and we would see a return to the status quo which saw Israel murder the Palestinians and steal their land with impunity for the past 75 years.