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This is a big deal: the Arab world unanimously rejects the Netanyahu-Trump plan for Gaza

The special Palestine summit of the Arab League comes as a sharp rebuke of the colonial aspirations of Zionism in the Trump-Netanyahu era

From the very minute Trump announced his brilliant idea for Gaza, it felt to me like a major charletan debacle in the making. I knew there was no way the Arab world was going to agree to a plan to depopulate Arabs from Arab lands by a foreign power. That was not going to be accepted.

And in the past weeks, we’ve seen encouraging signs that no, Arabs are not accepting an ethnic cleansing and resettlement. And, suddenly, all talk of ‘normalization‘ ceased, and a Palestinian state is being demanded as a precondition for peace. They are even offering financial assistance for the reconstruction of Gaza.

I find all of this very encouraging. The world is changing, and not entirely for the worse (though, as Americans, it’s hard to find solace these days, I know).

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Read about the summit here

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