By: IBRAHIM Jaafar
"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." MalcolmX. This is an accurate description of Trumps peace plan to Palestinian cause.
US President Donald Trump unveiled his long-delayed Middle Easy plan, known as the ‘Deal of the Century’, on Tuesday amid repeated rejections by Palestinians.
Before the proposal was announced, Palestinians called it dead on arrival, saying it was an attempt to "finish off" the Palestinian cause.
The 50-page political outline recognizes Israeli sovereignty over major illegal settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank. Trump tweeted a map showing the US vision for Palestine.
“I will always stand with the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I strongly support their safety and security and their right to live within their historical homeland. It's time for peace!” Trump tweeted.
The deal is nothing but a plan to finish off the Palestinian cause.
Although Fatah and Hamas are planning to reject the deal, many Arab leaders are fully supportive and have pledged $50 billion to fund the deal.
From the reactions so far, countries in support of the plans includes: Britain, Israel, Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Bahrain, while those opposing the plans includes: Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, Iran and Yemen.
The Palestinians are truly alone. All of the staples of their negotiating position have gone. They have no Jerusalem, no right of return, no refugees to return, no Golan Heights and now no Jordan Valley. They have no Arab allies. Syria is wrecked, Iraq divided, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are now Israel’s playthings. The Palestinians have lost the support of the most populous Arab nation and its richest one.
They have nowhere to flee to. Europe is closed for any future mass migration. They have only one option: to stay and fight. United, they can undo Israel’s supremacist plans for ethnic cleansing. They have done this before and they can do this again.
Palestinians now have to face this reality. The PLO's recognition of Israel, in 1993, has finally hit the dead end that this road was always going to lead to. The US, international law, UN resolutions were never going to come to their rescue, and in this sense alone, Trump’s brutal plan has done Palestinians a favour. It has blown away decades of imagination.
What has to start now is a new wave of struggle for equal rights in one state on all of the land of historic Palestine. This will involve a huge fight. No-one should underestimate what will happen if the Palestinian people rise up again. But no-one should be in any doubt too, of the consequences of submission.