Trump, Making Peace, Sort Of

GIVING CREDIT where credit is due is among humanity's most cherished principles. In that sacred spirit, congratulations are due president Trump, so we are told, for having brokered a peace arrangement between the Paletinians and the state of Israel. Point number one, an immediate cease fire, has been a success for three days, now, there are "merely" nineteen ore points to be accomplished in Mr. Trump's twenty point plan. The fly in the ointment is that two of the twenty are seemingly well beyond the reach of those involved; the disarmament of HAMAS, and the declaration and establishment of a Palestianian state, although most member nations of the U.N. have alredy issued such a declaration. As long as Netanyahu remains in office, it seems etreely unlikely that the nation state of Israel will give the Palestinians such status, or that HAMAS will willingly disarm. The peace deal seems doomed to failure. Trump is being give credit for something he had nothing to do with;the fact that after two years of bloody, devastating war, peace has broken out only as a last resort. The damage has been done, it is a peace agreement awkwardly positioned atop tons of rubble, death, and human misery, a peace accomplished far too late. What alternative is there for the pelestinians? Their entire "country", GAZA, is in ruins, and nearly seventy thousand Palestinians are dead. The war has utterly devastated Palestine. As for Israel, their genocidal war has succeeded only in rendering Israel a pariah in the global community, their brutal, ruthless slaughter of thousands of Palestinians will forver be included in its legacy. Suggesting to two enenies that it is time for peace is made easier when the war has lasted so long, and has been so destructive that nothing is left, and peace is the only alternative. It is as if donald Trump showed up at the last minute, polished the handrail of the golden escalator at Trump Tower, then claimed credit for having designed and built the entire building. This will not stop Trump from doing everything in his persuasive propagandistic power to to convince the world that he and he alone overcame enormous obstacles, persisted courageously, and, undeterred by circumstances, managed to singlehandidly forge a permanent peace where before it seemd nearly impossible. Trump, the great hero, promulgator of peace on Earth, more effectively preserving civiliation than any peace making effort in human history. Winston Curchill sadi that Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, immediately after having exhausted all other options. Hamas and Israel deserve the credit for ceasing hostilities, not Trump. what coice did they have? Palestine is in rins, incapable of doing nothing further in an armed conflict other than dyng in large numbers, and Israel, under the gun of global condemnation, made the prudent that enough genocide is enough - at least for the time being. Israel knows full well that it can return to complete the job later, with the full support of its puppet client state, the United States, which can always be reliably counted on to do precisely whatever the biblical nation of Israel, so important from the evangelical Christian viewpoint, most fondly desires. Trump had about as much to do with bringing peace to the middle east as he did in bringing the Russian war against Ukraine to an end. The war of Israel agaisnt Palestine is nor finished, far from it. that fact will not, however, be sufficient to curtail the victory lap which Trump will be taking for a very long time.