Trump's Gift to Israel

Without continued and escalating diplomatic, legal and cultural pressure, the potential, partial, dubious ceasefire will become Zionism's lifeline and platform for another, bigger catastrophe

A protest against the genocide in Kuala Lumpur, December 2024 image source

People want to go home. They have seen enough and suffered enough. People in Gaza and those speaking up and crying for Gaza online are tired, overworked, overstimulated, and deeply shaken. They need a respite, a light at the end of the tunnel, some comfort, temporary and fragile as it might be.

Emotionally this need, this longing, can be understood and is to be expected. Politically, it could be one of the biggest mistakes the international anti-Zionist front made in all its days of existence.

This could become another Oslo Accord moment; a great trap - a mass grave - presented as a historic breakthrough.

While everybody seems to be celebrating a ceasefire in Gaza even before it was announced, I’d like to take the political and cautionary perspective of the latest developments.

As a general preamble I’m going to say: if you’re not automatically assuming the worst intentions on behalf of the US and Israel, you’ve let yourself go. I won’t judge you too harshly for choosing wishful thinking over experience and momentary relief over actual change - we all do what we can - but I won’t keep my voice down, either.

How a ceasefire is a gift to Israel