Trump is imposing a Gaza peace agreement, and Netanyahu can like or it lump it. From Joaquin Flores at strategic-culture.su:
Netanyahu may yet call it diplomacy, but the world saw something else: a man reduced from an arrogant boaster of his control over the American president, to that president’s water boy.
What unfolded this weekend between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu was as much a tremendously needed diplomatic breakthrough to end Israel’s war of aggression upon the people of Palestine, as it was a public display of hierarchy; a master-servant dynamic disguised as an agreement so stunning that even the New York Times was forced to frame it this way. They did so in their news analysis piece by Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem on October 5th, “Strong-Armed by Trump, Netanyahu Embraces Gaza Deal as a Personal Win – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel took credit for an emerging agreement, but it was clear that President Trump was calling the shots”, despite that the piece introduces some critically erroneous propaganda. What is clear, however, is that Netanyahu’s war policy for Gaza effectively experienced a coup at the hands of Trump.
Gaza cleanup and reconstruction begins as Egypt sends a brigade of bulldozers to begin clearing rubble in Gaza, seen here entering through Rafah – credit video frame shot from Russia Today
At the same time, there is great danger that Netanyahu will attempt to regroup his efforts, and derail the peace process using various mechanisms which he’s known for historically. After all, what might keep Netanyahu from pushing back on what appears very much as a Trump led coup within the Israeli right against Netanyahu’s policy of ethnically cleansing Palestine of its indigenous population?
Nevertheless it remains now that it was Trump, not Netanyahu, who dictated the terms of what now appears to be the final framework for ending Israel’s war upon Gazans, releasing the remaining hostages held by Hamas, and establishing the security and reconstruction framework along the lines of the Arab League proposal from Egypt last March. The episode demonstrated to Israelis, Palestinians, and even the wider region that Netanyahu’s role was no longer that of a sovereign leader, but of a client forced to submit to his benefactor’s will.
The Decider has put his foot down?
That usually doesn’t end well when you take the ticket.
Jarvanka stands to lose shekels?