Azerbaijan Promises Peacekeepers if Fighting Stops — What Fighting?
Al-Monitor's scoop reveals Azerbaijan's 'humanitarian' conditional offer: peacekeepers for Gaza, but only if the fighting has already stopped completely. This brilliant strategy, allegedly part of a Trump administration 'peace plan' seeking a 20,000-troop International Stabilization Force, raises the baffling question: what exactly would a 'stabilization force' do in a conflict zone where there's
no conflict? One might wonder if these forces are primarily for photo opportunities. This diplomatic charade seems to follow a familiar pattern where powerful nations, including the US, discuss 'stability' and 'peacekeeping' while simultaneously enabling the very violence they claim to want to stop. The US, which supplies Israel with billions in military aid (like the $14 billion package passed in
April 2024, HR 815), according to OpenSecrets.org , while simultaneously proposing 'stabilization forces', appears to be orchestrating a tragicomic play. How many 'peace plans' will be offered while the besieged population suffers under indiscriminate bombardment?