The Deal of the Century: what’s in it for the American people? Nada. Zilch. Nothing at all. So much for Make America Great Again

The Deal of the Century

By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor - May 14, 2019

by Phil Giraldi, … via the Unz Review

[ Editor’s Note: Phil gives us a full review of the fake Deal of the Century, something created in secret without any direct involvement with the Palestinians, which makes even calling it a deal an exercise in fakeness. It takes two parties to make a “deal”, as a result of negotiations.

Also, legally, “deals” made under duress, like when having a gun put to your head, or knives held to the throats of your children, are not legally binding.

But unfortunately that does not matter if you have a huge military, or a friend that does, of nuclear and biological weapons.

In this specific case the “gun to the head” is the part where if the Palestinians do not accept this wonderful deal the US has threatened to starve them out by blocking all SWIFT money transactions going into Palestine. Isn’t that special, another wonderful example of the US spreading freedom and democracy in the world.

Mass media has laid low during all of the pre-coverage on this sham. Gone are the days when a myriad of big city US media platforms would be railing at the injustice of this entire ugly affair. The good news is that it is being done mostly right out in the open to acclimatize the public to what is going to happen.

The general public is burned out on the Palestine issue. It does not receive regularly monthly paychecks to be involved, like the Likuds and US government.

No matter what outrages are inflicted upon the Palestinians, the Gazans in particular, most countries continue to support Israel’s “right to exist”, but not the Palestinians. Legislatures are not only lining up to make opposing BDS illegal, but also any criticism of Israel as an act of hate.

It might be time for folks to start thinking about a new system, as the one we have seems to be irreparably broken and looking for new victims all the time. One of the planks of the UN is everyone having the right of self defense, sort of. I don’t think it includes those that would not want to bother… Jim W. Dean ]

No such thing as a "Palestinian".

No one wants to send their kids to die for those people. That's what's in it for the American people.

Several years ago, the Palestinians were given everything they asked for, they didn't have to do anything. The Golan Heights, everything was offered including insane amounts of money but they turned it down. They don't want Israel to exist was their reasons. The so called leadership of the Palestinians have done nothing for their own people. They legally sold the land to the Israelis even laughing as they thought it worthless. Preservation of the Israeli people changed desert and swamp into fertile agricultural land. Now they want it back and to exterminate the Israeli people. The Palestinians are rich due to UN money, and from other private and public money, what do they do with it, they buy rockets to fire, they support terrorists and fund terrorists right here in the states. Those people should look no further than the crooks they have for leaders. Israel certainly has not done everything right but they are not the ones harming the Palestinians. Tell the truth...wake up...shame on you aligning with terrorists

And the Palestinians refuse to meet with Israel or anyone to come to terms so how are you suppose to include those who refuse to talk. They say the only solution is for Israel to cease existence. That ain't going to happen, those Hamas people need to go to hell

Trump Intent on Erasing Palestine

14 May 2019
By Elson Concepción Pérez

U.S. President Donald Trump has come up with what he calls the “Deal of the Century,” the sole purpose of which is to finally remove Palestine from the world stage and put an end to the existence of the state.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has come up with what he calls the “Deal of the Century,” the sole purpose of which is to finally remove Palestine from the world stage and put an end to the existence of the state.

With great fanfare, the tycoon-come-president, using several of his advisors, intends to deceive the world with a formula to fully favor Israel and deny territory and freedom for the Arab population.

According to a document leaked in Tel Aviv, the deal would be a “tripartite agreement” signed between Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and Hamas to establish a so-called “New Palestine” in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but this would exclude Israel’s illegally built settlements, which will remain in the hands of the Zionist government.

Jerusalem would remain under Israeli control, and the Arab population that lives there would be citizens of the New Palestine.

The deal represents a coup de grâce to the Palestinian right to East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine, recognized by the UN and other international bodies.

According to the leak, “New Palestine” would not have an army, just a police force. A protection treaty would be signed with Israel, with Palestine having to pay for its services to defend it from any external attack. Hamas would hand all its weapons, including personal weapons, to Egyptian authorities.

I do not think it necessary to write any more on the matter to know that this so-called “Deal of the Century,” conceived by Trump, is doomed to failure.

In recent days, the Israeli army has killed more than a dozen Palestinians in Gaza, in an attack that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has described as a “prelude” to the Deal of the Century.

The PNA also stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to further Israeli and U.S. interests by consolidating the division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Sputnik cites Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who notes that any deal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a road to nowhere if the principle of two States, one Arab-Palestinian and one Jewish, is ignored.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said that those who believe that PLO will be pressured by the United States are mistaken.

“We say no and 1,000 no’s to any initiative that does not meet the minimum demands of the Palestinian people,” he stressed.

And since everything that comes from Trump ultimately carries with it a threat, this time Washington has warned that if the PLO and Hamas reject the agreement, the United States will cancel all its financial support to the Palestinians.

Tel Aviv Is Afraid of “The Axis of Resistance”

By Prof. Tim Anderson and The Syria Times
May 14, 2019

The Australian political economist and author Professor, Tim Anderson, has emphasized that the Zionist entity is afraid of the unrelenting Palestinian resistance, of Syria’s looming victory and of an enhanced Axis of Resistance facing the occupied parts of Lebanon and Syria.

“Tel Aviv has looked to Trump for reassurance, but the US leader’s gestures over Jerusalem and the occupied Golan have no force in international law,” the professor told the Syria Times e-newspaper

He went on to say:

“Given that Washington (whether under Bush, Obama or Trump) has done nothing to restrain the extended colonization and attempted ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, it is hard to imagine that The Kushner Plan (given a name which sounds like a TV game show) could do much more than throw some money around; all the more humiliating that this seems likely to be Arab (Saudi) money and perhaps a little Arab (Egyptian) land.”

The professor believes that all the recent statements from the Trump regime (on Jerusalem, on the occupied Syrian Golan and on some new yet-to-be-explained promises over Palestine) run in parallel to the violent expeditions by the Netanyahu regime.

Asked about the purpose of the Zionist entity’s recent intensive strikes on Gaza strip in the occupied Palestine, prof. Anderson said:

“The Zionists seem to believe, as do most fascist regimes, that an extremely vicious response to what they regard as the slightest provocation will act to terrorize the population and so repress all forms of resistance. While there are constant acts of resistance within occupied Palestine, the series of Israeli massacres in Gaza have demonstrated extreme and disproportional brutality. “

“Ruthless Reprisal”

He underlined that civilian casualties amongst Palestinians are, by all accounts, the great majority of Israel’s victims.
“The United Nations reported that “at least” 1,483 (67%) of the 2,205 Palestinians killed in Israel’s 2014 attack on Gaza were civilians, while only 4 (6%) of the 71 Israelis killed were civilians. (See this). So, contrary to much of the western media hype, the Palestinian resistance uses far more targeted violence compared to that of the Zionist forces. Notice though that the Zionist kill ratio in 2014 was more than 30 to one,” the professor clarified.

He referred to the fact that the Netanyahu regime since then has enhanced its policy of ruthless reprisal.
“In March the Zionist intelligence site Debka reported (see this) that “a new IDF policy had gone into force for hitting back at all manifestations of Palestinian terror”. This has resulted in immediate attacks “even though there were no Israeli casualties”. The same site noted multiple small acts of resistance, and that “thousands of convicted terrorists in Israeli jails [were] restive over cutbacks in their privileges”.

Prof. Anderson added that the increase in Palestinian resistance’s military capacity, with Gaza rockets reaching Tel Aviv for the first time, in March 2019, might help explain the relatively short punitive assault on Gaza in May.

“The Israeli regime has been notoriously insensitive to the killing of Palestinians, but remains highly sensitive to casualties on its own side,” he affirmed, explaining why the UN had not held an emergency meeting to discuss the Israeli aggression on Gaza.

“As everyone knows, three of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have launched multiple wars against the peoples of the region, precisely to divide the resistance to Zionism and imperialism, seeking to embed a controlling role for the Zionist colony in Palestine. Fortunately, in recent years, Russia and to a lesser extent China, have begun to exert a counter-veiling force. However this simply renders the Security Council ineffective. Elsewhere in the UN there are some useful initiatives, for example the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures. This is, of course, mainly aimed at US economic aggression. Such initiatives can help mobilise peoples against the economic and propaganda arms of today’s hybrid wars.”

The multiple 21st century wars

Moreover, the professor doubts that Washington is stupid enough to go to war with Iran, despite the threats.

“Declaring economic war on half the world will not help, in the medium term. The ‘Americans’ have not failed to notice that their game plan in Syria has failed badly; they just have great trouble admitting it,” he said, pointing out that both Tel Aviv and Washington fear the rising influence of the largest independent state in the region, and they fear Iran’s deeper integration with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.

“Their great fear is what they call an ‘Iranian land bridge’ from Tehran to Beirut. Of course, such economic, transport, communicational and cultural integration would be of enormous benefit to the peoples of the region, helping lift them out of an under-development enforced by fragmentation and neocolonial division. But this is the last thing Tel Aviv and Washington want,” Prof. Anderson asserted.

He concluded by saying:

“The wars against Iraq and Syria must be defeated and consolidated by a united front across the region. That would be the definitive answer to the multiple 21st century wars launched by Washington against the peoples of the region. Internal cohesion of the resistance within Palestine is also essential. Only then can sufficient pressure be brought to bear on the Zionist entity to democratize what has become an apartheid state.”

It is worth mentioning that Dr. Tim Anderson is Director of the Center for Counter Hegemonic Studies in Sydney. He worked and taught at several Australian Universities for more than 30 years.

The ‘Deal of the Century’ condemns Palestinians to endless Apartheid

By Jeremy Wildeman and Emile Badarin

May 14, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - Leaked plan to end the Israel-Palestine conflict by the Trump administration will entrench the occupation and perpetuate the economic exploitation of Palestinians.

Leaked details of the Trump administration’s Deal of the Century (the Deal) show that it offers neither an end to Israeli rule nor its policies of colonisation in Palestine.

What it does do is entrench and codify existing Israeli practices, while demanding that the Palestinians finally submit to domination by the Israeli state, or face the wrath of Israeli and American power should they resist.

Central to the Deal is a discursive repackaging, a rewording, of the status quo meant to legitimise Israel’s colonial practices on Palestinian territory. This includes, above-all-else, legitimising the radical demographic transformations - forced population transfers and settlement building - carried out by the Israeli state since 1967; an ongoing process of dispossession that dates back to the Nakba (Catastrophe) in 1948.

Thus, the US plan is expected first-and-foremost to recognise Israeli annexation of the settlements in Area C of the West Bank. Following US recognition in March of Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, this seems to be a foregone conclusion. Area C represents a little over 60 percent of the land originally intended for a Palestinian state by the Oslo Process in the West Bank, without which the entire Oslo Process is rendered unrealistic.

So, officially recognising settlements that have long been considered illegal under international law would condemn Palestinians to live in discontiguous Bantustans (overcrowded towns and cities): cut off from each other and the outside world, labourers and traders abused in between, stuck in perpetuity under oppressive Israeli rule.

The Economics of Dehumanisation

Nor do the economic parts of the plan bode well for the Palestinians. As with Israel’s colonial practices, the Deal implies more of the same suffocating economics of capture and decline.

This is because it treads down the same US policy path that dates back to the 1970s. That policy calls on Palestinians to surrender their political aspirations and individual rights, and to accede to living under Israeli rule, no matter how intolerable, all in exchange for some financial inducements offered by international donors. It is the same destructive logic that infused the ‘Development for Peace’ funding underneath the failed Oslo Peace Process since 1993, and which now permeates the ‘Deal of the Century’.

In reality the bantustans Palestinians currently live in are only viable because of the donors. Their funding provides the minimum stimulus necessary to maintain a tolerable level of services and employment, while Israel denies Palestinians their right to free movement to work, to trade and to develop their own economy.

Further, donors do this in such a way as to relieve Israel of the costs of providing services and maintaining security control over the Palestinian territory. This not only makes Israeli colonial practices feasible financially, but at a profit from the captive Palestinian economy, with large trade surpluses and upwards of 78 percent of donor aid trickling back to Israel. This is on top of the very generous aid and charity funding Israel has been receiving for decades from its Western allies.

Beyond that, the Deal dehumanises Palestinians. It reduces them to mere economic units without national political rights or individual aspirations, lacking any right to self-determination or means to escape Israeli domination. On the other hand, the Deal considers only Israelis to have nonmaterial rights such as national and political aspirations, self-determination, military power and a sovereign claim over the entirety of historic Palestine.

It is important to note that the bulk of the funding (70 percent) for this proposal is expected to come from oil-producing countries - Israel’s new Gulf allies - who are described as the main beneficiaries of the Deal. The rest of the costs would be split between the US (20 percent) and the EU (10 percent). This would amount to $30 billion over five years, with further development projects coming from Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea. These are all countries that have proven consistently willing to fund the Oslo Peace Process, even when it clearly failed and began to do harm.

Perpetual Colonialism without Moral, Political or Economic Responsibility

So, the Deal will not only allow Israel to maintain its ongoing colonial practices, but to continue to take profit from the exploitation of the Palestinians without any of the moral, political or economic responsibilities required by a government towards a conquered population.

Further, the plan reinforces the notion of population transfer, which is illegal under international law. It calls for instance for the removal of “unwanted” Palestinians out of their rich agricultural communities to develop the inhospitable Sinai desert, paying the Egyptians for the right to do this on temporarily leased land. Meanwhile, industrial zones rumoured to be built in border regions will promise yet further exploitative employment in deplorable conditions, providing Israel with cheap products in its ongoing development.

The added insult to injury is that Palestinians will be required to “pay” Israel for providing “protection” from “external aggression”, when it is Israel’s military and its settlers that are the aggressors. This is colonial exploitation, pure and simple.

There appear to be many more bitter pills the Palestinians will be expected to swallow. In an effort to push the Palestinians to surrender through despair, the US, the self-proclaimed “honest broker”, has taken stringent measures to dry the sources of their political and economic support.

Besides cutting all funds given to the Palestinians, the US is exerting systematic pressure on a number of UN organisations that dare express political and legal support to the Palestinians.

This indicates that the Trump Administration is ready for an escalation to make Palestinian conditions worse, even threatening to inflict harm on their leaders, should they reject the Deal.

The “New” Palestine

Meanwhile, maintaining the idea that there will be someday some form of Palestinian state (a “New Palestine”) will continue to be sustained by the US. This is because it is a useful tool for Israel and most Western governments to cover up the ugly truths of settler colonial and apartheid practices in Palestine, and to not hold it responsible for violations of international law.

The Deal of the Century prescribes a dystopian future for an already unstable Middle East. It seeks to legitimise and fund the current stage in Israeli expropriation and colonisation of Palestinian territory, in an ongoing process that dates back decades to 1948. So the New Palestine would be just one more step forward in an ongoing process, which has no clear endpoint. It stands in stark contrast with a true peace based on justice, humanity, equality and dignity for all peoples, Israeli or Palestinian alike.

Israel, Palestine; the Tragedy

By Sami Jamil Jadallah - May 15, 2019

The Palestinian people will never accept anything less than the full unconditional right of return and recovery of, or compensation for stolen properties left behind; no less than what the Jevvs of Europe were awarded after WWII.

Notwithstanding what kind of private or public arrangements the PLO reaches with the US or Israel, no one gave the PLO authorization to waive any of the rights of the Palestinians. These rights are no different from what the European Jevvs got after the war.

While many Western leaders are celebrating Israel’s 71st birthday, they simply chose to overlook the tragedy and the wrongs inflicted on the Palestinians in order for “Zionist Jevvs” to have their own state.

Christian Europe throughout the ages was hostile to the presence of “Jevvs” and “Judaism” in their midst, including Spain’s Inquisition, Medieval England, and Pogroms of Tsarist Russia, culminating with the deliberate extermination of possibly up to 6 million at the hands of Nazis.

That is why the creation of Israel received full support from key countries at the time; England with its “Balfour Declaration” promising a Jevvish Home Land in Palestine; and the US and Russia being the first to give full recognition of the State of Israel. With such an ugly Anti-Semitic history in Europe, and even in the US, many were happy to get rid of their “Jevvish Problem”.

Palestine was not the first choice of these secular, almost atheist Zionists, with the idea of Palestine even the creation of a “Jevvish State” was objected to by many leading practicing Jevvish groups. Some even today deny the need for Jevvs to have their own state.

These “Jevvish?” colonial settlers many of the early ones coming from Communist Bolsheviks revolution came to Palestine and set up communist communes, consistent with Marxist theory; but as colonialists they did not settle to be part of the local community; they choose to ethnically cleanse Palestine from its indigenous inhabitants, with the support of so many of these predominantly Anti-Semitic countries that provided arms and material support to the armed militia and Jevvish terrorist groups.

The Palestinians were simply no match for these well-educated “westerners”, lacking not only education but also material support that these colonial settlers were getting from Europe and the US.

Toward the end of the Second World War, many of the “Jevvs serving in the European and American military chose to immigrate to Palestine and organize well-armed and well-organized militias engaging in terrorist acts, with the Haganah and the Irgun leading the charge, but to name a few.

These colonial settlers came to Palestine not to escape death and share the land with the local people, they came with the full intention to ethnically cleanse Palestine from its own indigenous people by using outright terrorism to achieve their goals and using financial resources available to entice many countries to support their aims of establishing a “homeland”.

It was these Jevvish Zionist colonizers who first introduced terrorism in the Middle East by bombing public markets and blowing up hotels and massacring entire villages. Many of its leading terrorists went on to become prime ministers and winners of Noble Peace Prizes.

As the world leaders celebrate the rise of Israel as a major colonial settler state, they, certainly afraid of political and financial retaliation, choose to totally ignore the millions of Palestinians forced into exile and the disposition and confiscation of property and total destruction of over 500 villages, which have been completely wiped out.

Since its military occupation of what remained of Palestine, Israel was able to set new international records for a Draconian occupation:

the number of Palestinians it jailed (over one million),
the number of Olive Trees it uprooted and burned (over a million)
the number of illegal settlements over public and private Palestinian lands (some properties are sold through synagogues in the US, acting as brokers), and
the number of Palestinians (over 2.5 million) who must go through over 500 “security checkpoints“ every day.
Of course, not to mention the ethnic cleansing of over 80,000 Palestinians from East Jerusalem, and the thousands of Palestinian homes stolen by these criminal settlers with major funding from US Jevvish, tax-exempt charities.

Gaza is another story with over 12 years under siege, which has created the largest concentration camp in the history of mankind. Never in history have over 2 million people been besieged with no access to the world as in Gaza, as the Gazans have been subjected to repeated testing of new weapons, such as phosphorus bombs and depleted uranium, targeting civilian buildings, schools, and hospitals.

Who in the world could believe that Israel would use “daily calories” to decide how to keep people short of dying from starvation? More than that, Israel is the first country to use “shit water” spraying of entire communities and neighborhoods as punishment, on top of the closing of the entire Occupied Territories so that its Jevvish citizens can enjoy their holidays.

More tragic is the celebration of such criminal practices by Hollywood celebrities; and great fests in major American cities and around the world.

I am sure, given the history of Arabs and Palestinians of open hospitality, that the WWII and later ‘refugees” would have been more than welcome in Palestine to share the land and to create a partnership, but they chose ethnic cleansing and terrorism to achieve their goals.

Perhaps one day, the world will be free of the Zionist’s blackmails and special surgery turning many US politicians into Eunuchs with the pledge of total loyalty to Israel as a litmus test to secure the “Benjamins” for their election and reelections.

Palestine and the Palestinian people, with over 4,000 years of continuous history and presence in Palestine will not go away, never; and President Trump and Jared Kushner will never change that. Time to give Israelis a home, not a colony in Palestine, time to move forward with the One State for all of its people. Ref.: www.1not2.org.