“And they have treated the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’. But there is no peace.”
These words from the Book of Jeremiah, written millennia ago, aptly describe the situation facing the Palestinian people today.
After two years of aiding and abetting the bloody slaughter of a defenceless nation, capitalist governments across the world are joining hands and rejoicing at the news of Donald Trump’s “eternal peace”.
But this “peace” will be of little comfort to the Gazan people, famished and traumatised, returning to a wasteland of smouldering rubble and buried corpses – all that remains of what they once called home.
And to make matters worse, Israel apparently still has free rein to bomb the Strip as it pleases. On Sunday 19 October, the Zionist state murdered at least 45 Palestinians in airstrikes, only to quickly resign the ceasefire agreement once they were done!
What future can Gaza have under this imperialist nightmare? What hope do they have of ‘independence’ and ‘self-determination’ when their homeland has been pulverised? In the mouths of crooks like Trump and Starmer, these words are nothing but a sick joke.
Regardless of how long it holds in the short term, this peace plan will fundamentally solve absolutely nothing. This genocide has been going on for the best part of a century. A piece of paper and a handshake means nothing to the Zionists.
Far from allowing Gazans the freedom to run their own affairs, this deal will hand power to the very same ‘international community’ that turned a blind eye to Israel’s massacre.
And this ‘transitional authority’ may end up being led by none other than ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair – the bloodstained butcher of Iraq – who would effectively be crowned Viceroy of a Gazan colony.
All the while, violent bands of Israeli settlers are encroaching upon what little is left of the West Bank, with the military and financial backing of the Israeli state.
For the cruel, coldblooded capitalists of Washington and London, however, a humanitarian catastrophe is simply another moneymaking opportunity.
Like vultures circling a corpse, the Trump administration is already discussing plans for ‘economic reconstruction’, which may involve capitalist monopolies like Amazon, Ikea, Tesla, and G4S Security.
And the leeches in Westminster and the City don’t want to miss out on the fun. Labour’s Middle East minister Hamish Falconer recently held a conference of business elites in London to “drive forward private finance efforts for Gaza’s reconstruction”. These parasites have no shame!
As Vladimir Lenin once explained, ‘peace’ deals under imperialism are just another form of plunder. Imperialist peace paves the way for imperialist war.
Palestine will never truly be free until the Zionist state is overthrown, along with the imperialist governments across the West, without whom it couldn’t survive for a day.
The task for workers in Britain is to hasten the fall of the capitalist order: to bring down our own murderous ruling class, and light the fuse on the world socialist revolution.
