CBS Explains Trump's 'Peace Plan': More US Taxpayer Money, Less Palestine
CBS News dutifully reported on Donald Trump's latest 'peace plan' for Gaza, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 'accepted.' The article highlights Trump's proposal for more funding from Gulf states and the US, yet somehow sidesteps the inconvenient truth: this is essentially the 'deal of the century' repackaged, a plan which historically resulted in increased Israeli settlements and
rejected any viable Palestinian state. Netanyahu's acceptance isn't surprising, given Trump's previous administration moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, clear violations of international law. (Critics might wonder if this 'plan' includes an actual map or just a blank check for annexation.) The media's framing of this as a serious 'peace
plan' rather than a thinly veiled extension of existing unilateral policies is a masterclass in obfuscation. How many times must the US propose 'peace' that solely benefits one side before the media notices the pattern of dispossession and occupation, now escalated to genocide? One might reasonably ask: exactly whose peace are we discussing here, and at what crushing cost to those on the receiving
end?