By John Wojcik
NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump were closer together on key issues more than ever at their White House meeting on Gaza this Monday, as the Israeli warmaker nominated the American warmaker for the Nobel Peace Prize.
After the meeting, they discussed how, among other things, there were talks going on that could result in the removal of Palestinians from Gaza to surrounding countries. “The Palestinian people should have a choice,” Netanyahu declared, “about whether to stay or to move out.” Not included in the choice he or Trump is offering them, of course, was the right to form an independent Palestinian state and remain in what has been their homeland for thousands of years.
No credible journalists or lawmakers anywhere in the world report even a scintilla of evidence that other countries in the region are even willing to take in Palestinians. The choice Trump and Netanyahu, his accomplice in war crimes in the region, are offering Palestinians is to either stay in a devastated country facing starvation and death at the hands of military occupiers or a massive transfer of an entire people out to surrounding countries that have no interest in taking them in.
In explaining his call for Trump to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Netanyahu cited the “unmitigated success” of the recent joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The two leaders sat down with their top aides for a dinner in the White House Blue Room to mark the Iran operation and allegedly to discuss efforts to push forward with a 60-day ceasefire proposal to pause the 21-month conflict in Gaza.
“He’s forging peace as we speak, one country and one region after the other,” Netanyahu said as he presented Trump with a nominating letter he said he sent to the Nobel committee.
In a move that, instead, endangered peace in the region and the world, Trump ordered U.S. forces to drop “bunker-buster” bombs and fire a barrage of Tomahawk missiles on three key Iranian nuclear sites.
“Coming from you in particular, this is very meaningful,” Trump told Netanyahu as the prime minister handed him the nomination letter for the peace prize.
Other than being a meeting enabling Netanyahu and Trump to celebrate a supposed “victory” this week, the session at the White House yielded nothing when it comes to concrete plans for Israel to end its genocidal war against Palestinians. It also left the widespread perception around the world that Trump is not at all seriously pushing for an end to the conflict but instead orchestrating, from behind the scenes, its continuation.
Nothing was done to change the fact, for example, that continued pumping in of armaments to Israel by Washington enables the war against the Palestinians to continue.
Trump is also claiming that Iranian officials have reached out to the U.S. to schedule talks about Iran’s nuclear program. Negotiations had started in April but were scuttled after Israel and then the U.S. began bombings last month.
Contrary to Trump’s assurances, Tehran has yet to confirm that it has agreed to restart talks with the U.S.
But Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, in an interview published Monday, said the U.S. airstrikes so badly damaged his country’s nuclear facilities that Iranian authorities still have not been able to access them to survey the destruction.
Pezeshkian added in the interview with right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson that Iran would be willing to resume cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog but cannot yet commit to allowing its inspectors unfettered access to monitor the sites. (IPA Service)
Courtesy: People’s World
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