Yves right here. This submit provides among the excessive factors on how Israel has continued with its completely wicked genocide in Gaza. However it insultingly dignifies Netanyahu as prepared to maneuver on to the subsequent phases of the peace headfake when there was not a single day when Israel has complied with the ceasefire. Equally, it tries to depict the elimination of Tony Blair from the Trump peace scheme “board of peace” it bizarrely acts as if that’s a minor detrimental for Netanyahu. Huh? The Israel focus is the extermination or elimination of Palestinians from their expansive notion of Israel’s boundaries. They know that discuss of governance schemes is simply empty prattle.
What’s the motive for what comes awfully near apologetics for Israel from Paul Rogers? Are commentators within the UK that afraid of seeming too Palestine pleasant by being accurately crucial of Israel? Is that this an instance of the chilling impact of the detention of George Galloway underneath the Anti-Terrorism Act?
@GeorgeGalloway on being detained by the UK Anti-Terrorism Police: “For those who had instructed me 8 weeks in the past that such a factor was even remotely potential, I’d not have believed you. There isn’t any extra patriotic British citizen than me.”
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— HatsOff (@HatsOffff) November 28, 2025
It’s grating to see Rogers attempt to finish on a notice of hopium. Trump is a real believer in his insurance policies and doubles down, as we see on all types of fronts, from the financial system to ICE, when polls present they’re hemorrhaging assist. If Trump needed to ship a shot throughout Israel’s bow, he would have recalled his cringe-worthy ambassador Mike Huckabee after assembly with Jason Pollard:
Why would Mike Huckabee maintain an off-the-books assembly with traitor Jonathan Pollard on the U.S. Embassy? That is an outrageous diplomatic lapse, and Huckabee ought to resign or be fired!
I focus on this with @ClaytonMorris and @Natalimorris on @RedactedNews. pic.twitter.com/hhTfcWRDyf
— John Kiriakou (@JohnKiriakou) November 20, 2025
No, Trump believes within the Israel venture. His favourite daughter Ivana transformed to grow to be an Orthodox Jew. Trump can be a loud and proud supporter of ethno-supremacism in South Africa. He’s not giving up Israel, even earlier than attending to the significance of Zionist donors to him,
By Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Research within the Division of Peace Research and Worldwide Relations at Bradford College, and an Honorary Fellow on the Joint Service Command and Employees School. He’s openDemocracy’s worldwide safety correspondent. He’s on Twitter at: @ProfPRogers. Initially printed at openDemocracy
Two months into Israel and Hamas’s ‘ceasefire’, the title is already proving a misnomer. Violence continues in Gaza, the place greater than 360 Palestinians, together with as many as 70 youngsters, and three Israeli troopers have been killed since 10 October.
A lot of the Palestinians killed have been households who have been ‘collateral harm’ of Israeli plane and drone strikes on buildings, ruins or tents in pursuit of particular person Hamas paramilitaries. Regardless of this, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has instructed Israel is able to transfer to the subsequent part of the 20-point Gaza peace plan put ahead by Donald Trump.
Studies from Washington, although, point out that the plan itself is present process modifications.
Tony Blair was this week quietly dropped from Trump’s “board of peace”, a technocratic administration of the self-proclaimed international nice and good to supervise Gaza’s governance, in keeping with the Monetary Occasions.
The previous UK prime minister was broadly anticipated to play a serious function within the programme, presumably even main it, however some Arab and Muslim states are stated to have argued that his assist for and involvement within the 2003 US assault on Iraq made him an unfit candidate.
Whereas that is little question a blow for Blair, for Netanyahu, it’s only a minor setback. Israel is already setting the agenda on the bottom, and the prime minister is assured in Trump remaining trustworthy because of the voting energy of the various thousands and thousands of Christian Zionists within the US.
His confidence may be seen in a number of cases of Israel performing with impunity.
First, Netanyahu has primarily annexed the vast majority of Gaza in a sleight of hand.
Shut to 2 million Palestinians have been pressured into the small strip of largely ruined city areas alongside the coast, generally known as the Crimson Zone, whereas Israeli troops occupy the Inexperienced Zone, which makes up 58% of Gaza. Yellow concrete posts mark the divide between the 2, which the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) already think about to be Israel’s new border with Gaza.
Then there may be Israel’s reported spying on the worldwide safety forces current on the Civil-Army Coordination Centre, the ceasefire-monitoring centre established by the US at Kiryat Gat in southern Israel, simply 20 kilometres from Gaza, since 10 October.
The centre’s a number of hundred uniformed and civilian international employees are tasked with assist and logistic coordination, after the abandonment of the earlier and much-criticised US/Israeli non-public assist distribution system. However press stories recommend tensions, with some international groups reportedly avoiding revealing delicate data because of Israeli surveillance, which the bottom’s US commander, Patrick Frank, has referred to as on Israeli officers to place a cease to.
In the meantime, past Gaza, the IDF and the Israeli police are seen to have free rein of their therapy of the three million Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution and East Jerusalem. One current instance was the capturing lifeless of two Palestinians who had surrendered
Since Israel’s conflict in Gaza began two years in the past, greater than a thousand Palestinians within the West Financial institution have been killed, whereas prior to now 12 months, round 32,000 folks have been pressured from their houses in refugee camps within the north of the West Financial institution.
Not less than 34 households, totalling 175 folks, at present face eviction from their homes in Batn al-Hawa, East Jerusalem, by an Israeli settler group.
“Israeli army operations have pressured total communities in areas of the northern West Financial institution into lockdown of their houses, protecting youngsters out of faculty, jeopardising household incomes and rising threat of bodily violence and youngster detention from the Israeli army,” stated a press release final month by Save the Kids, a charity that first supplied assist for Palestinians in 1953 and has been a everlasting presence within the area for the previous 50 years.
The organisation concluded that “the futures of a complete era are being jeopardised”, pointing to disastrous prospects for Palestinian youngsters because of restrictions on assist, settler violence, home demolitions, land confiscation and the destruction of infrastructure.
And given Netanyahu’s dedication to remain in energy a minimum of till subsequent yr’s common election, it’s troublesome to see an early finish to the grim Palestinian predicament.
As I’ve beforehand argued in these columns, the Gaza battle could have a longer-term, multi-generational influence on Palestinians and can most definitely not give Israeli Jews the safety they want – certainly, fairly the other, as extra traumatised and grieving Palestinians come spherical to Hamas’s trigger.
Within the extra rapid future, although, one current development is already shocking impartial analysts: the marked lower within the US public’s assist for Israel. “A majority of Individuals now disapprove of the IDF’s actions in Gaza,” and, extra telling nonetheless, “for the primary time extra assist the Palestinians than Israel”, in keeping with a report in Le Monde Diplomatique this month.
So, whereas for now, Netanyahu is correct to be assured in Trump’s unflinching assist, the US president’s perspective might change abruptly if he begins to assume his home popularity is being threatened.