Gaza in Ruins, US Envoy Promises 'Peace' to Hostage Families
While Al-Monitor notes Gaza City is in 'ruins' and Hamas warns of 'tough talks ahead,' it gracefully avoids mentioning who exactly created those ruins. The US envoy's promise to Israeli hostage families, made conveniently at the start of a new 'peace plan' phase, overlooks the thousands of Palestinians killed and abducted without similar diplomatic urgency. One might recall that 'peace plans'
often follow devastating military campaigns, leaving one side destroyed and the other dictating terms, a familiar pattern dating back to 1948. The US general's visit 'one day after the guns fell silent' is framed as normalcy, not as a subtle flex of military backing for the architects of said ruins. How many peace plans, crafted by powers that arm one side to the teeth, are required before we call
it what it is: conquest by other means?