Peace Plan Frees <20% of Prisoners: A Feature, Not a Bug
The story focuses on the paltry numbers, even mentioning freed prisoners contracting infectious scabies in Israeli jails. But what's left out is the consistently low bar for 'peace' set by the powerful. Remember the Oslo Accords? A full 30 years later, the number of Palestinians subjected to Israeli military law has only grown. This isn't an oversight, it's a pattern, a carefully managed process
of control masked by the soothing rhetoric of 'negotiations.' So, when the White House talks about 'peace plans,' one might legitimately wonder for whom this 'peace' is actually intended. It certainly isn't for the hundreds of Palestinians languishing in administrative detention, without charge or trial, while US politicians like Senator Bob Menendez – who received over $28K from pro-Israel groups
in 2022 (OpenSecrets.org) – lament the suffering *on one side*. How many more 'peace plans' will it take before the world asks if the plan itself is simply a distraction?