Someday this War's gonna End

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The 'Day After Plan' that Netanyahu doesn't want to talk about.

Netanyahu wants us to believe, or at least wants the Trump administration to, that Israel has no alternative than to intensify the war and, in effect, reoccupy the whole of the Gaza Strip — seriously risking the lives of the hostages in the process. But this is not the case and hasn’t been for the past 18 months. Hamas was never the necessary negotiating partner, or even the counterparty, to any deal that promised to succeed. Netanyahu must know that.

Logically, any peace plan depends on the Palestinian Authority. To stabilize Gaza — to organize any “day-after” administration — one must find Arab partners who promise Gazans the hope of safety and reconstruction; partners who would not just be sub-contractors for an Israeli occupation of the Strip. Netanyahu is not alone in vilifying the Palestinian Authority. Even close observers sympathetic to Palestinian national aims doubt its competence, dismissing it, in the words of the Guardian’s diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour, as “corrupt and discredited.” Polls show that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians want its octogenarian president Mahmoud Abbas to resign.

This view of the Palestinian Authority is wrong, or at least so partial as to be misleading. However defensible that view may once have been, there’s a new pool of Palestinian leaders in West Bank cities just waiting to be tapped. I have travelled often there over the past 20 years, and have got to know, particularly, Palestinian business leaders who have put another face on Palestinian nationalism. No “alternative civil administration” will succeed without them.

 

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Recognition and support of Isreal by the USA will be sufficient protection for them even if other major European countries continue to recognise a Palistine state, but in the much longer term it doesn’t bode well if the Middle East becomes less globally important if/when the oil runs out. Netty is not a loser, I imagine he will end up in the US if that’s the only way to avoid the possible consequences his postponed court case.

 

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The chap who wrote the article, Bernard Avishai, goes on to point out that a Plutocracy could become a legitimate ruling body for a future Palestinian state, telling of 140,000 businesses were operating in the Palestinian territories, most of them small- and medium-sized firms in various services employing fewer than 10 people — retail and wholesale, repair, light industry, construction and transportation. (Agriculture now makes up less than 5 percent of Palestinian GDP.)

 

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The Australian government will recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations general assembly next month, Anthony Albanese has confirmed, joining pledges made by countries including France, Canada and the United Kingdom in recent weeks, amid gathering international momentum for a Palestinian state and condemnation of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including plans to militarily occupy the entire territory.

Albanese told the press conference Australia’s recognition pledge was predicated on commitments he said he’d received from the Palestinian Authority, Albanese said those commitments include a demilitarised Palestine, recognising Israel’s right to exist in peace and security, the PA holding elections and undertaking governance reforms, and no role for terror group Hamas in a future Palestinian state. He also said the government wanted Israeli hostages released.

Asked whether the recognition move was purely symbolic, Albanese said an end to conflict between Israel and Palestine could only come following a two-state solution, calling the move “practical contribution towards building momentum”.
the Guardian

Palestine will soon enjoy the support of four of the UN Security Council's five permanent members (the other two being China and Russia).

This will leave the United States, Israel's strongest ally by far, in a minority of one.

The State of Palestine is currently recognised by 147 of the UN's 193 member states.

 

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An interesting development:

The foreign ministries of Qatar and Saudi Arabia have welcomed the Australian move [to recognise the state of Palestine] and the announcement by New Zealand that it was considering taking a similar step. In a statement, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the announcements were a “positive step” and align with significant support for the rights of the Palestinian people, “enabling them to exercise their right to self-determination and establish their independent state along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital”.

 

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The Israeli occupation does not only exist above ground. Tareq Baconi examines how Israel enjoys a gas bonanza while barring the Gaza Strip from tapping its ownfields. He argues that Palestinian dependency on Israeli energy amidst US calls for "economic peace” undermines Palestinian rights, and puts forth recommendations to challenge this status quo.

A gift or a curse? The gas fields off Gaza.

 

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Israel’s decades-long water war against Palestinians often goes unnoticed by the international community. Tracing three different battlefronts, Muna Dajani looks at how military strikes, security programs, and permit systems destroy Palestinian water infrastructure and local resource-management systems, and calls for change.

The apolitical approach to Palestine's water crisis and Israel's systemic water war

 

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Historic Palestine has long had an abundance of natural resources, ranging from fresh and ground water, arable land and, more recently, oil and natural gas. In the seven decades since the establishment of the state of Israel, these resources have been compromised and exploited through a variety of measures. These include widespread Palestinian dispossession of land in the ongoing Nakba, exploitation of water through failed negotiations, and a finders-keepers approach to gas and oil found in or under occupied land.
In this collection of analysis, Al-Shabaka (pdf) experts provide insight into a range of issues related to Palestinian natural resources, from their theft by Israel to the deleterious effects of climate change and its intersection with the Israeli occupation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts a warming in the southern and eastern Mediterranean between 2.2 and 5.1°C over the twenty-first century – a higher rate than the global average. This will lead to highly disruptive, if not catastrophic, changes to the region’s climate, including increased desertification. As climate change intensifies, natural resources will only become more precious.

 

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Tareq Baconi

Just the name alone is enough to wind a Jew up.

 

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Just the name is enough to wind a Jew up.

Are Clockwork Jews Orange?

 

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The tv documentary 'Louis Theroux: The Settlers' indicates what the plan is.

 

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The tv documentary 'Louis Theroux: The Settlers' indicates what the plan is.

Perhaps the Palestinians should have watched it before October 7?

 

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Perhaps the Palestinians should have watched it before October 7?

I know that war isn't a zero sum game, however as atrocious, disgusting and abhorrent as October 7 was, I think what's starting to make more and more question what's going on is in part related to proportionality. Approx. 1,200 deaths vs 60,000+ (according to reports.) And more than a few are seriously questioning Netanyahu recently announced plans.

 

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I know that war isn't a zero sum game, however as atrocious, disgusting and abhorrent as October 7 was, I think what's starting to make more and more question what's going on is in part related to proportionality. Approx. 1,200 deaths vs 60,000+ (according to reports.) And more than a few are seriously questioning Netanyahu recently announced plans.

All the more reason they should have watched it. Own goal. Shot themselves in the foot. Gave Israel the excuse they wanted and opened the door to their own annihilation.