{"id":318859,"date":"2025-11-22T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318859"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:25:01","slug":"trump-is-turning-gaza-into-a-brutal-colonial-protection-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318859","title":{"rendered":"Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Cook \u2013 jonathan-cook.net Nov 21, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The West has spent two years partnering Israel<\/a> in its campaign of wanton destruction in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the United States<\/a> – with the permission of a cowed United Nations Security Council – has appointed<\/a> Donald Trump to preside over the ruins.<\/p>\n

Like a Roman emperor, the US president will be able to dictate<\/a> the fate of Gaza\u2019s people with a simple gesture. Whatever he decides – whether the thumb turns up or down – it will be called “peace”.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s most likely side-kick in this depraved charade will be Tony Blair<\/a>, the former British prime minister. He won<\/a> his war-crime spurs more than 20 years ago, when he joined one of Trump\u2019s predecessors, George W Bush, in launching an illegal invasion of Iraq <\/a>and a subsequent, catastrophic occupation that left that country in ruins too.<\/p>\n

Satire cannot do justice to this moment.<\/p>\n

The eradication of Gaza could be achieved only with the complete hollowing out of international law – the legal global order that was established many decades ago to prevent a third world war and the horrors of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

Marking the demise of that era, the Security Council voted<\/a> 13-0 this week to endorse Trump\u2019s “peace plan” <\/a>for Gaza, with only Russia and China daring to abstain.<\/p>\n

The dissenting representatives of the crumbling legal order – from the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to Francesca Albanese<\/a>, the UN\u2019s legal expert for the occupied territories – have been isolated, vilified and sanctioned<\/a> by the Trump administration<\/a>. No one appears to be willing to come to their defence.<\/p>\n

Quite the contrary. Germany<\/a>, whose own genocidal rampage across Europe more than 80 years ago once left it a pariah state and drove the creation of the new legal order, now confidently leads the way in flouting those very rules.<\/p>\n

It has resumed<\/a> supplying Israel with the weapons it needs to continue the slaughter, justifying the decision on the grounds that Israel is murdering fewer Palestinians during Trump’s duplicitous “ceasefire”.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday,\u00a0Israel broke the ceasefire once again, killing more than 30 people in a series of air strikes, including 20 women and children.<\/p>\n

Even the current “peace” allows Israel to occupy some 58 percent of Gaza in a depopulated “Green Zone”, effectively partitioning<\/a> the territory for the forseeable future. Daily, Israel bombs families sheltering in the wreckage of the enclave\u2019s interior, declared a “Red Zone”. And Israel continues to block <\/a>the entry of food and medicines, including the temporary housing needed as winter rains deluge the territory.<\/p>\n

Is this what, 19 years ago, Condoleezza Rice, Bush\u2019s secretary of state, meant when she spoke of the coming, painful “birth pangs of a new Middle East”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems, they have arrived in full force – and the region has never looked more terrifying.<\/p>\n

A joint US-Israeli occupation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

UN Resolution 2803 makes Trump the debauched feudal overlord of Gaza. His lackeys on a so-called “Board of Peace”<\/a> will “include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World”, according to Trump.<\/p>\n

They will have sovereign power over the enclave\u2019s ruins for at least the next two years – and undoubtedly long beyond that. The Board will decide how Gaza is governed, what constitutes its borders, how or whether it is rebuilt, and what economic life is permitted.<\/p>\n

It has resumed<\/a> supplying Israel with the weapons it needs to continue the slaughter, justifying the decision on the grounds that Israel is murdering fewer Palestinians during Trump’s duplicitous “ceasefire”.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday,\u00a0Israel broke the ceasefire once again, killing more than 30 people in a series of air strikes, including 20 women and children.<\/p>\n

Even the current “peace” allows Israel to occupy some 58 percent of Gaza in a depopulated “Green Zone”, effectively partitioning<\/a> the territory for the forseeable future. Daily, Israel bombs families sheltering in the wreckage of the enclave\u2019s interior, declared a “Red Zone”. And Israel continues to block <\/a>the entry of food and medicines, including the temporary housing needed as winter rains deluge the territory.<\/p>\n

Is this what, 19 years ago, Condoleezza Rice, Bush\u2019s secretary of state, meant when she spoke of the coming, painful “birth pangs of a new Middle East”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems, they have arrived in full force – and the region has never looked more terrifying.<\/p>\n

A joint US-Israeli occupation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

UN Resolution 2803 makes Trump the debauched feudal overlord of Gaza. His lackeys on a so-called “Board of Peace”<\/a> will “include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World”, according to Trump.<\/p>\n

They will have sovereign power over the enclave\u2019s ruins for at least the next two years – and undoubtedly long beyond that. The Board will decide how Gaza is governed, what constitutes its borders, how or whether it is rebuilt, and what economic life is permitted.<\/p>\n

In effect, oversight of the system of colonial control and abuse Israel has exercised over the territory since the late 1960s – which the International Court of Justice (ICJ)\u00a0ruled<\/a> illegal last year – will be transferred to the United States, with the Security Council\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n

This is now formally a joint US-Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n

The US that now holds Gaza\u2019s fate in its hands is the same US that has spent the past two years arming Israel.<\/p>\n

Those weapons made possible the levelling of Gaza, the ethnic cleansing of 2 million people from their homes, and a mass slaughter identified by every major human rights group and international legal body as a genocide.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s “peace plan” is the international order\u2019s equivalent of putting a convicted serial child abuser in charge of a primary school.<\/p>\n

There will be no UN peacekeeping force in Gaza to try to protect its people. That would too readily expose the masquerade of Trump\u2019s version of “peace”.<\/p>\n

The UN force in Lebanon<\/a>, Unifil, has reported<\/a> thousands of Israeli violations of a supposed year-old “ceasefire” there. Israel is not just bombing Lebanese families<\/a>, but this week shot<\/a> at Unifil peacekeepers too.<\/p>\n

Rather, the Board – meaning Trump and the Pentagon – will supervise an “International Stabilisation Force” (ISF) in Gaza, supposedly to be in place by January.<\/p>\n

Disarming Hamas<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Last year the ICJ ruled<\/a> that Israel must end its occupation and pull out of all Palestinian territories “as rapidly as possible”, including Gaza. Apparently in line with that ruling, Britain<\/a> and France<\/a> led a handful of other western states in recognising a Palestinian state <\/a>a few months ago.<\/p>\n

But in supporting UN Resolution 2308, both have, entirely predictably, reneged on their promise. Although at the insistence of Arab states, the resolution makes a vague nod<\/a> to a possible “pathway” to statehood, the “Board of Peace” – that is, the US and Israel – gets to decide when, or if, that actually happens.<\/p>\n

A precondition is that Mahmoud Abbas<\/a>\u2019 supine Palestinian Authority<\/a> (PA) submits to an undefined “reform programme”.\u00a0The PA already serves as Israel\u2019s reliable security sub-contractor in the Occupied West Bank, having turned itself into a modern-day Vichy regime.<\/p>\n

It was the PA\u2019s endorsement <\/a>of Trump\u2019s “peace plan” that gave Russia and China the cover to abstain at the Security Council rather than scuttle the resolution with their vetoes.<\/p>\n

The reality is that nothing the PA can do – even colluding in its own evisceration – will make Israel view it as a suitable Palestinian government. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau reiterated <\/a>as much this week, shortly after the resolution was passed, saying he would never allow a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

Instead, Israel will simply stay on in Gaza. It is not required to withdraw until the multinational force is deployed and the Israeli military agrees that it has enforced “demilitarisation milestones” in the enclave. Yet it is hard to imagine who will be willing to take on disarming Hamas.<\/p>\n

Trump has ruled out<\/a> deploying US soldiers or funding Gaza\u2019s reconstruction. “The US has been very clear they want to set the vision and not pay for it,” a diplomatic source told the Guardian.<\/p>\n